# Uncle Tom — Right Ho, Jeeves character guide

> Uncle Tom in Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Thomas, Tom, poor old Tom, old Tom Travers, Travers

**First appearance:** 0002-i

## Snapshot

Aunt Dahlia's portly, put-upon husband, a man whose chief passions are food and drink and whose Masonic bandmaster photograph haunts Bertie's bedroom wall.

## Who they are

Uncle Tom Travers presides over Brinkley Court with the air of a man who would rather be at his club, forever caught between his wife's schemes and his own appetite. His fondness for the larder and his weakness for being managed make him a comic fixture in the household's romantic entanglements. When midnight raids on steak-and-kidney pie become social occasions, Tom's domestic world proves as chaotic as any of Bertie's plans.

## Relationships

### [Aunt Dahlia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/right_ho_jeeves_se/characters/aunt_dahlia)

_family_

Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom are married, with a dynamic of mutual exasperation and affection.

### [Aunt Dahlia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/right_ho_jeeves_se/characters/aunt_dahlia)

_family_

Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom are married, with a dynamic of mutual exasperation and affection.

## In the story

### [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/right_ho_jeeves_se/chapters/xii)

Appears in the larder wearing mauve pyjamas and carrying a pistol, suspecting burglars due to the noises Tuppy made.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/right_ho_jeeves_se/chapters/xiv)

Crouched in his corner, breaks a coffee-cup at the noise.

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