# Mrs. Bingley Crocker — Piccadilly Jim character guide > Mrs. Bingley Crocker in Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Mrs. Crocker, Bingley Crocker, Bingley **First appearance:** 0003-iv-jimmy-s-disturbing-news ## Snapshot Jimmy's formidable mother, a former actress whose theatrical instincts and fierce opinions turn every family gathering into a performance. ## Who they are 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 Pett drive much of the friction between the two households. She matters because her social maneuvering and maternal stubbornness keep Jimmy caught between family duty and his own schemes. ## In the story ### [II: The Exiled Fan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/ii-the-exiled-fan) Suffers from homesickness for America, reading about cricket and longing for baseball; reflects on his past as an actor and his marriage to Mrs. Crocker. ### [II: The Exiled Fan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/ii-the-exiled-fan) Receives a call from Lady Corstorphine; worries about Jimmy's low associations and plans to arrange a meeting with Lord Percy Whipple. ### [III: Family Jars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/iii-family-jars) Receives the Pett family with cool indifference, mistakes her husband for the butler. ### [III: Family Jars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/iii-family-jars) Mistaken for the butler by his sister-in-law, plays the role and bonds with Mr. Pett over baseball. ### [The Morning After](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/v-the-morning-after) Mr. Crocker reveals his wife's plan to secure a peerage and is dismayed by Jimmy's fight with Lord Percy. ### [The Morning After](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/v-the-morning-after) Mentioned as the stepmother who is angry about Jimmy's behavior and is pushing for the peerage. ### [VI: Jimmy Abandons Piccadilly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/vi-jimmy-abandons-piccadilly) Jimmy's father; Jimmy writes him a letter explaining his decision to leave for America to help his father's peerage ambitions. ### [Lord Wisbeach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xiv-lord-wisbeach) Appears as the butler Skinner, playing along with Jimmy's charade and giving his blessing. ### [XV: A Little Business Chat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xv-a-little-business-chat) Serves as butler; drops a chafing-dish when Willie mentions the explosive; suspected by Lord Wisbeach of being dishonest. ### [Between Father and Son](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xix-between-father-and-son) Working as a butler under the name Skinner; he is recruited by Jimmy to play the kidnapper in the plot to abduct Ogden. ### [Chapter XXI: Chicago Ed.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxi-chicago-ed) Disguised as 'Chicago Ed.' and tasked with kidnapping Ogden; initially nervous but successfully negotiates with the boy. ### [In the Library](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxii-in-the-library) Enters wearing a hideous mask, leading the procession through the French window. ### [Sensational Turning of a Worm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxiv-sensational-turning-of-a-worm) Revealed as the man calling himself Skinner; he is identified by his wife, Mrs. Crocker, as her husband, ending the criminal investigation. ### [XXV: Nearly Everybody Happy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxv-nearly-everybody-happy) Assertively declares he will stay in America to watch baseball, but later capitulates to his wife's tears and agrees to return to London after learning a peerage is likely. ### [XXV: Nearly Everybody Happy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxv-nearly-everybody-happy) Pressures her husband to return to London, breaks down in tears, and reveals that the Lord Percy incident has not ruined their social ambitions. ### [XXVI: Everybody Happy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxvi-everybody-happy) Mentioned as removing his makeup in his room. ### [XXVI: Everybody Happy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/chapters/xxvi-everybody-happy) Mentioned as having gone to her hotel. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters/mrs_bingley_crocker - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/piccadilly_jim_se/characters