# The Gold Bat — Character guide

> Key figures in The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Trevor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/trevor.md): Trevor runs Wrykyn's games like a machine, a terror to shirkers who trains even in the holidays and plays football like a miniature Stoddart. His friendship with the idle Ruthven puzzles Clowes, and his blunt, direct man
- [O'Hara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/o_hara.md): O'Hara moves through Wrykyn with cheerful mischief, scratching algebra engagements for free teas and boxing with Moriarty in the gymnasium. He is the last person known to have held Trevor's gold bat, which makes him both
- [Clowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/clowes.md): Clowes is the dry, unhurried counterweight to Trevor's energy, offering wry commentary from his window perch and refusing to waste effort on anything. Yet his sharp eye catches what others miss — he is the one who notice
- [Barry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/barry.md): Barry is the school's finest footballer, and the League knows it — their letter threatens that his continued selection will cost the bat's secret. Trevor faces an agonizing choice between protecting O'Hara and fielding h
- [Milton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/milton.md): Milton is a sentimental collector of Edna May and Sir Henry Irving portraits, and the wreck of his study leaves him too shattered to think of football. His grief — seventeen photographs destroyed, one torn into sixteen p
- [Rand-Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/rand_brown.md): Rand-Brown is the teammate whose guilt seems written on his face — he flinches at Trevor's accusation, then transforms into friendliness the moment his place against Ripton is confirmed. He offers his keys, his drawers, 
- [Seymour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/seymour.md): Seymour is the master who oversees football at Wrykyn, the steady adult presence against whom Trevor's captaincy and the boys' schemes are measured. His conscience pricks him awake one night, sending him prowling the pas
- [Shoeblossom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/shoeblossom.md): Shoeblossom is a nervous, imaginative student who reads sensational fiction by smuggled lantern-light and startles at every footstep. When Seymour comes investigating, Shoeblossom quakes behind his door, mistakes a fello
- [Ruthven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/ruthven.md): A student at Wrykyn, friend to the main characters.
- [Renford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/renford.md): Renford is an overworked junior at Wrykyn, the sort of boy sent scurrying on errands and grudging every concession. When Trevor demands his milk, Renford parries with a triumphant 'There isn't any,' only to be ordered to
- [McTodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/mctodd.md): A student at Wrykyn, part of the school community.
- [Dexter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/dexter.md): Dexter is the master whose house has been shunted to the baths after a measles outbreak, and whose needling of O'Hara about Irish politics sparks a scheme the boys must keep secret. He is the butt of O'Hara's elaborate r
- [Moriarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/moriarty.md): A student at Wrykyn, involved in the League.
- [Paget](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/paget.md): A student at Wrykyn, part of the school community.
- [Drummond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/drummond.md): A student at Wrykyn, involved in events.
- [Mr. Banks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/mr_banks.md): A master at Wrykyn, involved in school discipline.
- [Sir Eustace Briggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/sir_eustace_briggs.md): Sir Eustace Briggs is the dapper, excitable Mayor of Wrykyn, glimpsed dashing past in a carriage with the bored headmaster. His inflammatory letter about the Irish so inflames O'Hara and Moriarty that they plot retaliati
- [The Headmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/headmaster.md): The headmaster of Wrykyn, a figure of authority.
- [Harringay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/harringay.md): A student at Wrykyn, part of the school community.
- [Ripton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/characters/ripton.md): A rival school team, referenced as a collective.

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