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Butterfield is the butler of Totleigh Towers, Sir Watkyn Bassett's country house located in Totleigh-in-the-Wold. Butterfield's first name is not stated in the novels. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster guesses that Butterfield is a hundred and four years old, and Jeeves agrees that he is "well stricken in years". [16]
In addition to being a proficient valet, Jeeves can serve capably as a butler, and does so on a few occasions. As Bertie says in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, "If the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them." [65] Jeeves has an encyclopedic knowledge of literature and academic subjects. He frequently quotes from Shakespeare and the romantic ...
A fictional house in the neighbourhood of Blandings Castle, Marling is the home of Colonel Fanshawe, his wife and their attractive daughter Valerie. The butler there is a friend of Beach, and the two of them occasionally share a glass or two in the evenings. The house's coal cellar has, on at least one occasion, served as a makeshift prison.
Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. (/ ˈ t r iː tʃ ər / TREE-chər; 23 July 1894 – 14 December 1975) was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P. G. Wodehouse valet character Jeeves (Thank You, Jeeves!, 1936) and the kind butlers opposite Shirley Temple in Curly Top (1935) and ...
Jeeves-like butler in the children's novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman: 1963: R ; Oeznik: Sokovian butler of the Zemo House in Marvel Cinematic Universe: 2021: Ramsley: from The Haunted Mansion: 2003: Raunce: succeeds to the position from footman when Eldon the Butler dies, in the novel Loving by Henry Green: 1945: Randolph
Brinkley (renamed Rupert Bingley), Bertie's valet commissioned when Jeeves gives notice, soon sacked for his insane behavior; Maple, Lord Worplesdon's butler; Mulready, Sir Reginald Witherspoon's butler; Oakshott, Uncle Willoughby's butler; Purvis, Aunt Agatha's butler; Seppings, the butler at Aunt Dahlia's home Brinkley Court
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Come On, Jeeves is still occasionally produced and was presented as recently as December 2017. [2] In the play, the young aristocrat Bill, Lord Towcester, cannot afford to maintain his large country house. He tries to solve his financial problems with the help of his resourceful butler, Jeeves.