# Piccadilly Jim — Character guide

> Key figures in Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Jimmy Crocker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/jimmy_crocker.md): A charming ex-newspaperman with a scandalous reputation, he returns to London and impersonates his own uncle to win the girl who despises him.
- [Ann Chester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/ann_chester.md): A quick-witted, independent young woman traveling with her aunt, she has sworn off charming idlers — which makes her the perfect target for one.
- [Lord Wisbeach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/lord_wisbeach.md): A polished English nobleman whose easy manners and convenient presence around the Pett household hide more than they reveal.
- [Mrs. Pett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/mrs_pett.md): Jimmy's wealthy, iron-willed aunt, she runs her household like a campaign and treats her husband as a minor inconvenience to be managed.
- [Mr. Peter Pett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/mr_peter_pett.md): A mild, henpecked American businessman whose fortune funds his wife's ambitions and whose quiet decency survives every domestic defeat.
- [Ogden Ford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/ogden_ford.md): Ann's pampered, perpetually hungry younger brother, a boy so thoroughly spoiled that kidnapping him seems almost reasonable to everyone involved.
- [Jerry Mitchell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/jerry_mitchell.md): Jerry Mitchell moves through Wodehouse's New York as a boxer with more decency than most of the drawing-room set around him, which is precisely what makes him useful when Jimmy needs a steady friend. His plainspoken warm
- [Mrs. Bingley Crocker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/mrs_bingley_crocker.md): Mrs. Bingley Crocker presides over the Crocker side of the family with the energy of a woman who once commanded a stage and never quite left it. Her ambition for her son and her prickly relationship with her sister Nesta
- [Bayliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/bayliss.md): The Pett family's long-suffering butler.
- [Miss Trimble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/miss_trimble.md): Miss Trimble works for Mrs. Pett as a professional snoop, and her unassuming manner hides a methodical, suspicious mind. Where the Pett family schemes with flair, she investigates with patience, making her a low-grade me
- [Willie Partridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/willie_partridge.md): Willie Partridge is the Pett family's resident inventor, a boyish enthusiast whose mind runs on reactions and yields rather than romance or society. His explosive formula attracts the attention of relatives eager to expl
- [Skinner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/skinner.md): Lord Wisbeach's valet, involved in the plot.
- [Lord Percy Whipple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/lord_percy_whipple.md): A young English lord and friend of Jimmy's.
- [Bingley Crocker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/bingley_crocker.md): Jimmy's father, a former actor now living in America.
- [Chicago Ed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/chicago_ed.md): A gangster who comes to New York looking for Jimmy.
- [Spike Dillon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/spike_dillon.md): A friend of Jerry Mitchell's.

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