# Uneasy Money — Character guide

> Key figures in Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Lord Dawlish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/lord_dawlish.md): Bill Chalmers is the poorest man of his rank in Britain, happily installed as secretary of Brown's until his fiancée Claire refuses to marry him on four hundred a year. He is generous to a fault—handing shillings to stra
- [Elizabeth Boyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/elizabeth_boyd.md): Elizabeth runs the Boyd bee farm at Flack's, managing finances, a wayward brother, and a household with brisk maternal pragmatism. She is practical but not above a strategic half-truth—she lets Nutty believe in a halluci
- [Dudley Pickering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/dudley_pickering.md): Pickering built a fortune from the Little Pick to the Pickering Giant, and everyone—papers, Bradstreet, and Pickering himself—speaks well of him. He is a colossal bore on the single subject of automobiles, yet beneath th
- [Nutty Boyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/nutty_boyd.md): Nutty has been living it up in New York on money that was never really his, playing host to horse leeches until his Uncle Ira's will played him false. His drinking has produced a vivid imaginary monkey that climbs wardro
- [Claire Fenwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/claire_fenwick.md): Claire is engaged to Bill but has quietly omitted that fact during the voyage, letting Dudley Pickering fall in love with her while she weighs thirty millions against her self-respect. She wants to keep her good opinion 
- [Lady Pauline Wetherby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/pauline_wetherby.md): Lady Wetherby arranges for Claire and Dudley Pickering to share a ship, then works the drawing-room piano and moonlight to push them together. She is frank about the appeal of thirty millions and cheerfully admits to sch
- [Lord Wetherby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/lord_wetherby.md): Lord Wetherby belongs to the small circle of Bill Dawlish's titled but cash-poor acquaintances, a nobleman whose breezy disregard for money is a family tradition rather than a personal failing. His finances are so hopele
- [Algie Wetherby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/algie_wetherby.md): Algie hovers at the edge of Claire Fenwick's calculations as she and Lady Wetherby dissect her romantic options over lunch, invoked as the type of husband who must never be allowed to think he can boss a wife. He is the 
- [Gerald Nichols](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/gerald_nichols.md): A friend of Lord Dawlish and a fellow club member.
- [Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/eustace.md): A mysterious and somewhat sinister figure who appears at the club.
- [Gates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/gates.md): Lord Dawlish's loyal butler.
- [Ira J. Nutcombe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/ira_nutcombe.md): A wealthy American uncle whose death sets the plot in motion.
- [Roscoe Sherriff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/roscoe_sherriff.md): A lawyer involved in the Nutcombe estate.
- [Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/characters/brown.md): A servant or minor functionary.

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