# The Pothunters — Character guide

> Key figures in The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Jim Thomson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/jim_thomson.md): A House prefect with a talent for illicit errands, Jim vanishes into a quarry and becomes the mystery everyone at St. Austin's is hunting.
- [Tony Graham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/tony_graham.md): Jim's loyal study-mate and a middling boxer with inexhaustible pluck, Tony tears up forbidden notes and joins the night search for his missing friend.
- [Barrett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/barrett.md): A curious schoolboy who pokes into the Pavilion burglary and finds his questions answered with silence, teaching him that curiosity can be a fraud.
- [Allen Thomson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/allen_thomson.md): Jim's brother and a Rugby boxing champion, Allen's casual request for two pounds becomes the suspicious evidence that nearly sinks Jim.
- [Welch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/welch.md): The last person to see Jim before he vanished, Welch is hauled from sleep to account for a ploughed field and a missing schoolmate.
- [Charteris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/charteris.md): Editor of the unofficial school magazine The Glow Worm, Charteris turns a monthly tea into a banjo-accompanied tribunal of gossip and verse.
- [Mr. Thompson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/mr_thompson.md): As Sixth Form Master, Thompson presides over examinations and prizes with a watchfulness that unnerves even the innocent. When Tony Graham receives a note in his class, Thompson's gentle command to tear it up unread show
- [Vaughan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/vaughan.md): Vaughan moves through St. Austin's with the comfortable assurance of a boy who cares more about the cross-country race than about mysteries. He shares Dallas's relief when the unpopular Plunkett is sent down, joking that
- [Plunkett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/plunkett.md): Plunkett, nicknamed the Mutual Friend with heavy irony, has worn out his welcome at St. Austin's long before the Head summons him. The interview that ends with his withdrawal is a relief to Dallas and Vaughan, who make n
- [Dallas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/dallas.md): Dallas belongs to that cheerful stratum of school life where sport, gossip, and House loyalty matter more than intrigue. He brings Vaughan the news of Plunkett's expulsion and trades talk of the mile and the cross-countr
- [Merevale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/merevale.md): Merevale runs his House with the unshowy competence of a man who has seen many crises and expects more. When Thomson fails to return, he brings the Head not panic but a tidy inventory of sightings: Harrison near Stapleto
- [Sir Alfred Venner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/sir_alfred_venner.md): Sir Alfred Venner is the kind of country baronet who believes a man's first duty is to be a sportsman, and he takes the theft of his prize cups as a personal affront to that creed. His insistence on redress forces the He
- [Reade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/reade.md): Reade belongs to the Aldershot crowd of public-school boxers, the sort who reads The Sportsman for weights and sizes before ever lacing a glove. He swaps easy talk with Tony Graham about ankles, training, and the draw, t
- [The Head](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/the_head.md): The Head presides over the school with the usual gravitas, but the theft of the cups stirs something more personal in him: a detective's itch he cannot quite scratch. He slips down to the Pavilion during a Sixth-form exa
- [The Babe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/the_babe.md): A schoolboy, younger and often teased.
- [Grey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/grey.md): A schoolboy and participant in the sports.
- [Inspector Roberts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/inspector_roberts.md): Roberts arrives at St. Austin's to investigate the stolen cups and immediately unsettles the Head's tidy theories, pointing out the ragged pane, the chisel, the tell-tale lack of professional polish. He is unhurried, fon
- [Biffen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pothunters_se/characters/biffen.md): A schoolboy involved in the sports.

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