# School Stories — Character guide

> Key figures in School Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Charteris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/charteris.md): Charteris edits The Glow Worm at his own expense, and it outsells the official school magazine because he always knows the news first. He is the one who tells the Babe, with relish, that Dacre is going to be married, and
- [Dunstable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/dunstable.md): Caught poaching in Mr. Watson's wood, Dunstable faces Mr. Day with a frankness that is almost disarming, admitting the offence without excuse. His quiet remark at the door about the autograph shows a boy who notices what
- [Pillingshot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/pillingshot.md): When Evans's missing sovereign becomes a case, Scott appoints Pillingshot the detective and hands him a notebook and a set of clues. Pillingshot's contribution is to gape, admit he doesn't know, and reluctantly examine t
- [P. St. H. Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/harrison.md): Harrison arrives at Merevale's nursing a grievance against the fellow-traveller who got the better of him, and he sets about revenge with cheerful cunning. He convinces the unknown that Venables's study is his own, then 
- [Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/smith.md): Scott turns a missing sovereign into a proper investigation, complete with notebooks, timelines, and a reluctant subordinate in Pillingshot. He questions Evans with mock-legal precision, pinning down times and cricket ba
- [G. Montgomery Chapple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/montgomery.md): Chapple belongs to the junior day-room world where muffins are filched and Evans's lost sovereign becomes the talk of the House. He is part of the audience for Scott's detective scheme and Pillingshot's hapless investiga
- [Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/bradshaw.md): Bradshaw moves through St. Austin's as the boy who can talk his way out of anything, a talent that both fascinates and exasperates his classmates. When he works off a private explanation to Mellish in under five minutes,
- [The Babe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/the_babe.md): The Babe endures Miss Beezley's merciless literary interrogations — Browning, Sordello, and the Pied Piper — with choking blushes and hollow laughter, while his carving of a chicken becomes a public ordeal. Yet he is no 
- [Tony Graham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/graham.md): Tony Graham is the dependable presence whose being 'crocked' forces Charteris and the Babe to reorganize the side and reconsider their own commitments. His absence from the pitch becomes a kind of moral pressure on those
- [J. S. M. Babington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/babington.md): Babington is the virtuoso of the form's beloved round game — the staged accident, the eloquent defence, the cloud of witnesses — until Mr. Seymour's pleasant 'you lack finesse' punctures the whole performance. Ordered to
- [Thomas B. A. Shearne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/shearne.md): Thomas arrives at Eckleton with pink cheeks and almost indecently golden hair, the very image of a Ministering Child, and Master Burge cannot resist testing him. But when Thomas sits on the thrown Bradley Arnold, then fi
- [Welch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/welch.md): A schoolboy who participates in the various school activities and discussions.
- [Richard Venables](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/venables.md): Venables presides over the study where Evans's missing quid becomes a case, assigning the baffled Pillingshot the role of detective and feeding him clues with mock-serious relish. His interrogation of Evans — cricket bag
- [Mrs. Spencer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/mrs_spencer.md): A matronly figure at the school who interacts with the boys.
- [Clephane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/clephane.md): A schoolboy who appears in various school scenes and conversations.
- [Mr. Mellish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/mellish.md): A master at the school, often dealing with discipline.
- [Mr. Reginald Seymour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/seymour.md): A master at the school, involved in teaching and school events.
- [Payne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/payne.md): A schoolboy who has a notable episode of improving his behavior.
- [The Headmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/headmaster.md): He never appears in person, yet his preferences govern the school's daily life: masters quote his aversion to local disputes as though it were statute. That offstage pressure creates the quiet tension running beneath ord
- [Uncle John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/uncle_john.md): A relative of one of the boys who visits the school and causes a stir.
- [Evans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/evans.md): A schoolboy who appears in various scenes and conversations.
- [Grey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/grey.md): A schoolboy mentioned in the context of school activities.
- [Charles Augustus Walkinshaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/walkinshaw.md): A schoolboy with a formal name, appearing in school scenes.
- [Mr. Montagu Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/watson.md): A master at the school, known for his artistic pretensions.
- [Biffen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/biffen.md): A schoolboy who appears in the narrative of school life.
- [John Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/john_jackson.md): A schoolboy who is part of the school's social fabric.
- [Mr. Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/mr_day.md): A master at the school, often mentioned in school contexts.
- [Mr. Merevale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/merevale.md): A master at the school, involved in teaching.
- [Tom Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/tom_brown.md): A character from a book within the book, discussed by the boys.
- [Mr. Prater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/prater.md): A master at the school, involved in school discipline.
- [J. Linton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/linton.md): A schoolboy or master, appearing in school contexts.
- [Major-General Sir Everard Venables](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/sir_everard_venables.md): A distinguished military figure and relative of a schoolboy.
- [Mr. Secretary Morrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/morrison.md): A master or official at the school.
- [Dorothy IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/dorothy_iv.md): A character from a story or play within the book.
- [The Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/the_doctor.md): A medical doctor who attends to the boys.
- [Mr. Hughes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/mr_hughes.md): A master or visitor at the school.
- [Dear Archie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/dear_archie.md): A character addressed in a letter or conversation.
- [Hunters Dunstable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/hunters_dunstable.md): A relative or associate of the Dunstable family.
- [Mrs. James Anthony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/characters/mrs_james_anthony.md): A female character, possibly a relative of a schoolboy.

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