# The Head of Kay’s — Character guide

> Key figures in The Head of Kay’s by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Fenn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/fenn.md): Fenn is the talented senior whose refusal to back Kennedy has split Kay's into two sulking camps, a rift Jimmy Silver loudly calls drivelling lunacy. Proud, quick with a quote, and quicker to bang a knocker when a Cockne
- [Kennedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/kennedy.md): Kennedy is the conscientious Head of Kay's, the one man standing between the house and Mr. Kay's relentless keyhole raids, and he bears it with a weary, painstaking patience. His isolation is the ache of the early book: 
- [Jimmy Silver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/jimmy_silver.md): Jimmy Silver moves easily between Fenn and Kennedy, the rare chap welcome in both camps, and he uses that position to deliver unwelcome home truths in a theatrical voice meant to hide how serious he is. He calls the feud
- [Mr. Kay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/kay.md): Mr. Kay rules his house by keyhole and indignation, bursting into Kennedy's study with sensational tales of fags misbehaving and mice in lockers, like a dog proudly bringing a rat into a drawing-room. His ragging is so r
- [Walton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/walton.md): Walton is the sort of senior who separates a fight and then rebukes only the boy he dislikes, letting his protégé Wren off scot-free. He dislikes Billy Silver partly for his own sake and partly because he has crossed Jim
- [Wren](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/wren.md): Wren is the small, redheaded schemer of Kay's, first met trading blows with Billy Silver over tent space and later sneaking down town for honey on another boy's errand. Protected by Walton's patronage, he slips out of tr
- [Blackburn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/blackburn.md): A figure associated with the house, possibly a master or senior student.
- [Spencer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/spencer.md): A vindictive student who causes trouble in the house.
- [Mulholland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/mulholland.md): A master or adult figure at the school.
- [Billy Silver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/billy_silver.md): Billy Silver moves through the school as the younger sibling of the steady, plain-spoken Jimmy, a boy whose scrapes and small crises give the older characters something to fret over and lecture about. His missing cap bec
- [Private Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/private_jones.md): A soldier or guard encountered during camp or adventures.
- [Dencroft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/dencroft.md): A master or figure at the school, possibly a housemaster.
- [Challis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/challis.md): A student or master mentioned in the narrative.
- [Perry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/perry.md): An ingenious but lazy student at the school.
- [MacPherson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/macpherson.md): A student or figure at the school, possibly Scottish.
- [Higgs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/higgs.md): A notable figure, possibly a master or senior student.
- [Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/characters/watson.md): A student or master mentioned briefly.

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