# Uncle Frapp — Tono-Bungay character guide

> Uncle Frapp in Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Frapp, Nicodemus Frapp, Nicodemus, Uncle Nicodemus

**First appearance:** 0001-i-of-bladesover-house-and-my-mother-and-the-constitution-of-society

## Who they are

George's uncle, a stern and religious man.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/i)

Implied reference to George's cousin, a working baker with whom he stayed, who died in the Chatham infirmary.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/ix)

George is sent to live with him at Chatham as punishment.

### [Of My Launch Into the World and the Last I Saw of Bladesover](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/ii-of-my-launch-into-the-world-and-the-last-i-saw-of-bladesover)

Cousin Nicodemus Frapp, a baker in a slum, with whom George is first sent to live.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/i)

Cousin Nicodemus Frapp, a baker; depicted as servile, dirty, and crushed by Bladesover's influence.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/ii)

Nicodemus Frapp, who docks George's Sunday pudding for his impenitence.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/iii)

The previously unknown uncle to whom George's mother takes him in Wimblehurst.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/chapters/ii)

Referenced in connection with George's flight from Christian teachings over the Kent hills.

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