# Sir Eustace Briggs — The Gold Bat character guide

> Sir Eustace Briggs in The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sir Eustace, Briggs

**First appearance:** 0002-iii-the-mayor-s-statue

## Snapshot

The red-faced Mayor of Wrykyn, a keen politician and hater of the Irish, whose letter against Ireland earns him O'Hara's secret wrath.

## Who they are

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 retaliation they dare not let be discovered. As the public face of respectable Wrykyn, Briggs embodies the adult world the boys mock, and his presence raises the stakes of O'Hara's reckless schemes.

## In the story

### [III: The Mayor’s Statue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/chapters/iii-the-mayor-s-statue)

Mayor of Wrykyn, whose statue is tarred by O'Hara and Moriarty in retaliation for his anti-Irish letter.

### [The Mayor's Visit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/chapters/xix-the-mayor-s-visit)

The mayor visits the headmaster to complain about the statue vandalism and the gold bat incident.

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