# Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw — School Stories character guide

> Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw in School Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bradshaw, the talented Frederick, the wretched Bradshaw

**First appearance:** 0002-now-talking-about-cricket

## Snapshot

A silver-tongued schoolboy fabulist whose gift for plausible explanation can charm a furious master into sudden friendship — and land his friends in detention.

## Who they are

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 two emerge like long-lost brothers, leaving his friends desperate to extract the secret and Prater's sudden summons to the Headmaster hinting that even Bradshaw's eloquence has limits. His gift for fiction makes him the axis around which the school's scrapes and mysteries turn.

## In the story

### [Bradshaw’s Little Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/chapters/bradshaw-s-little-story)

The central figure of the chapter, a cunning and unscrupulous schoolboy who schemes to avoid studying for the Euripides exam and later fabricates an elaborate excuse.

### [A Shocking Affair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/chapters/a-shocking-affair)

Protagonist of the tale; devises a scheme to avoid the Thucydides exam by locking himself in the Museum.

### [The Manoeuvres of Charteris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/chapters/the-manoeuvres-of-charteris)

Schemes before the Euripides exam, contributing to the academic intrigue.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/school_stories_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as the Bargees' secretary who recognizes Charteris at the Rutton sports and questions his presence.

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