# Mr. J. Wilmot Birdsey — Short Fiction character guide

> Mr. J. Wilmot Birdsey in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Birdsey, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilmot Birdsey, Mrs. Birdsey, J. Wilmot, Birdsey, J. Wilmot Birdsey, kindly little Mr. Birdsey

**First appearance:** 0000-when-papa-swore-in-hindustani

## Snapshot

A kindly, henpecked New Yorker exiled to England by his wife and daughter, he finds fleeting joy at a London baseball exhibition and dreads the return to domestic servitude.

## Who they are

Mr. Birdsey made his fortune, married, and was promptly defined as a cipher in his own home, his duties being to make money and jump through hoops at the bidding of his wife and daughter Mae. When Mae married an earl and Mrs. Birdsey decreed the home would henceforth be in England, J. Wilmot was scooped out of his morris chair and decanted onto the Olympic like a clam. The one bright spot is a White Sox and Giants exhibition at Chelsea, where he sits in the front row and finds two kindred spirits who howl at the umpire.

## In the story

### [One Touch of Nature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/one-touch-of-nature)

An American baseball fan exiled in England after his daughter married an earl; he sneaks away from a family dinner to attend the game and invites two strangers to dine with him.

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