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Bagshaw, Lindsay "Books"
a literary hack and the eponymous figure in BDFR: BDFR 34
episodes involving:
train journey from Oxford to London: BDFR 34-43
NJ's first meeting with Trapnel: BDFR 111-22
the night of the destruction of "Profiles in String": BDFR 224-44; TK 179, 224
at Quiggin & Craggs:
the party for the launch of "Fission": BDFR 130, 132, 147-8
sundry publishing business: BDFR 151-3, 178-80, 220-5; TK 15-16
NJ's visit to home: TK 186-94
Pamela's nocturnal intrusion: TK 196-202, 205, 220, 227, 256
described: BDFR 34, 42, 151; TK 188
names:
"Books-do-furnish-a-room" nickname:
use of by other characters: BDFR 34, 125, 127, 147, 199, 206, 215, 225, 228-30, 237; TK 186
possible origins of: BDFR 34, 38-9
Lindsay:
lately discovered by NJ: TK 30
associated with:
TV work: TK 30; HSH 121-2
domestication: TK 205
career:
the university of life: BDFR 39
wartime service:
with RAF:
Public Relations in India: BDFR 35, 39, 112-3, 114, 128 ; HSH 53
ranked Squadron-Leader: HSH 53
effect of on character: BDFR 35
in the literary world:
BBC:
early radio: BDFR 34, 37, 112
television: BDFR 221, 252; TK 30, 186, 188-9, 193; HSH 121-2
journalism:
wide range of: BDFR 34-9, 119-20
sound quality of: BDFR 37-8
Editor of "Fission":
and backers:
Erridge: BDFR 40-2, 68, 83-4
Rosie Manasch: BDFR 101, 111, 130, 153, 223
Widmerpool see below
and Quiggin & Craggs:
personalities involved:
Howard Craggs: BDFR 41, 52, 68, 84, 101, 126-7, 152, 223
Gypsy Jones see below
Judy: BDFR 124?, 196; TK 18
Ada Leintwardine: BDFR 42-3, 124-5, 147-8, 221, 223-4
Quiggin: BDFR 36, 40-1, 43, 68, 83-4, 86, 101, 119, 152, 165-6, 179, 199-200, 223-4
controversies involving:
Ada's novel: BDFR 197
"Sad Majors": BDFR 179-80, 220-3
"Sweetskin": BDFR 166, 178-9, 198
the Widmerpool parody: BDFR 197-200, 206, 214-5, 221, 223; TK 193
and contributors:
Evadne Clapham: BDFR 148, 198, 206
Gibson Delavacquerie: HSH 53
NJ:
slightly older than: BDFR 34
past acquaintance: BDFR 34, 81
use of at "Fission": BDFR 83-4, 86, 101, 111, 120-1, 130, 166; TK 15-16, 18
admired by: TK 16
loses touch with: HSH 98
Moreland:
long friends with: BDFR 34, 36, 39, 127-8
commissions: BDFR 127-9
NJ compares to: TK 232
Len Pugsley: TK 143
LO Salvidge: BDFR 84
Nathaniel Sheldon: BDFR 132-5
Bernard Shernmaker: BDFR 132-5
X Trapnel see below
Widmerpool see below
absenteeism:
irregular attendance: BDFR 124, 198
bout of flu at critical time: BDFR 196, 200-1, 206, 220-1
and the demise of: BDFR 220-1, 224-5; TK 30, 187
character:
as revealed in conversational style:
unstoppable garrulity: BDFR 36, 39, 121, 225, 228-31; TK 20, 186
diffidence:
in personal matters: BDFR 43, 50, 151, 239; TK 186-7
in expressing direct opinion: BDFR 101, 151, 246
predictable joke: BDFR 127
drink:
the worse for: BDFR 34, 36-8, 127-8, 132, 147-9, 221, 232-3, 244
taste for obscure pubs: BDFR 111-2, 122, 227; TK 37, 186
largely gives up in later years: BDFR 186, 189
as "professional rebel":
history of problems with employers: BDFR 35-8, 42, 151, 221
unpublishable libellous novel: BDFR 119, 151
enjoyment of trouble: BDFR 35-6, 198, 221-2
politics:
past involvement in revolutionary movements: BDFR 36, 40, 113; TK 19-20, 191
Spanish Civil War:
involvement with: BDFR 36-7, 127-8, 242
effect of on opinions: BDFR 36
and left-wing factions:
fascinated by ramifications of: BDFR 36-7, 39, 42, 75, 148; TK 15, 19-20, 193, 232
identification of characters with: BDFR 41-2, 101-2, 112-3, 152-3, 242, 254; TK 194
and literature: BDFR 229-30
and money: BDFR 161
interest in prostitutes: BDFR 234
domestic life:
family:
father:
good relationship with: TK 188, 197
and Pamela's intrusion: TK 197-201
wives:
past: BDFR 38; TK 37, 186
current May: BDFR 43, 151; TK 188-90, 201; HSH 114
widower: HSH 114
children: TK 187-9
stepdaughters: TK 187-9, 192, 194, 199-201; HSH 114
as "a satisfied Lear" in old age: HSH 114
harassed by: TK 186-94, 198, 200-1
paying guests: TK 190-2, 197, 199-201, 203
and Gypsy Jones:
and sex-life of:
own engagement to: BDFR 36, 42
gossip concerning:
Craggs: BDFR 41, 52
Erridge: BDFR 41
Len Pugsley: TK 143
Widmerpool: BDFR 153; TK 193
and Quiggin & Craggs:
dislike of power over: BDFR 41-2, 52, 151-3, 180; TK 143
opposition from: BDFR 42
and "Sad Majors": BDFR 180, 222
and Gainsborough's rejection of Trotskyism: BDFR 254
NJ wonders concerning death of: HSH 98
and X Trapnel:
understanding of:
acquaintance with in wartime India: BDFR 39-40, 112-3; HSH 53
knowledge of family history: BDFR 243-4
assessment of character:
politically: BDFR 112-3
effect of on writing: BDFR 156
on the unlikeliness of suicide: BDFR 242-3
ability to influence: BDFR 120-1, 160-1, 178, 232-4
and image of:
source of RAF greatcoat: BDFR 114
appreciation of swordstick: BDFR 116-7, 236-8
desire to see maintained:
proposes documentary film: TK 30
favours Gwinnett's biography: TK 183, 186, 190-1
critical opinion of: BDFR 39, 43, 111-3, 156
literary arguments with: BDFR 119-20, 227-31
and Quiggin & Craggs:
desire to recruit for: BDFR 41, 113, 119-21
skill in handling payments demanded from: BDFR 160-1, 178
controversies affecting:
the "Sweetskin" review: BDFR 166, 178-9, 198
the Widmerpool parody: BDFR 197-200, 206, 214-5, 221
attitude to the affair with Pamela:
failure to appreciate significance: BDFR 225
irritation at effect of infatuation: BDFR 233, 239-40; TK 18
and the loss of "Profiles": BDFR 225-6, 233-8, 241-2
avoided by in later months: TK 29-30
and Widmerpool:
as fellow-traveller:
delight in analysing the subtleties of: BDFR 101-2, 152; TK 19-21, 43, 194
the image of the balcony spitter: TK 19-20
and the spy scandal: TK 192-4, 205, 252
as backer of "Fission":
regards with approval as source of:
articles: BDFR 113; TK 16
paper: BDFR 127
at party for launch: BDFR 147
regarded by:
with distrust: BDFR 101, 111, 149, 152-3, 198, 200, 206, 221, 214-5; TK 19
with grudging satisfaction: BDFR 138
and the Trapnel parody: BDFR 197-200, 214-5, 221
later mentioned: TK 193
as sexual deviant: TK 18-19, 194
on relationships with:
Gypsy Jones: BDFR 153; TK 193
Pamela: BDFR 225, 239-40; TK 194
Ferrand-Sénéschal: TK 17-19, 194
and other characters:
Dr Brightman: TK 220
Canon Fenneau: HSH 121-2
Ferrand-Sénéschal: TK 15-19, 194
Pamela: BDFR 201, 225-6, 233-4, 239-40; TK 194, 198, 201, 227
Vernon Gainsborough: BDFR 253-4
Gwinnett:
interest in the Trapnel biography: TK 183, 186-7, 190-1
takes as paying guest: TK 190-1, 197, 199-201, 205, 220, 256
and Pamela's nocturnal intrusion: TK 199-201, 205, 220, 227, 256
Mark Members: HSH 114
Scorpio Murtlock: HSH 121-2
Sillery: BDFR 42, 223-4
Odo Stevens: BDFR 153, 179-80, 220-3
Bagshaw, May
wife of "Books": TK 187
described: TK 189
poor health:
migraine: TK 189, 201
lameness: TK 189
daughters from previous marriage: TK 187-9, 192, 199-201; HSH 114
as wife of Bagshaw:
wedding to: BDFR 43
kept in the background by: BDFR 151
sobering effect on: TK 186, 189
children: TK 187-9
disorganised life with: TK 188-90, 194
and the incident of Pamela's intrusion: TK 201
death: HSH 114
Bagshaw, Mr
father of "Books": TK 187
described: TK 187-8
retired from insurance business: TK 197
character:
short-sighted: TK 198-9
good-natured:
effect on business career: TK 189
acceptance:
of Bagshaw's early years: TK 197, 199
of the present family's vagaries: TK 187-8, 198-9, 201
of Pamela's appearance: TK 199-201
good relationship with Bagshaw:
tolerant of early indiscretions: TK 197, 199
lives with happily in retirement: TK 187-8, 197-201
praised by for reaction to Pamela: TK 199
prime witness of the incident of Pamela's nocturnal intrusion: TK 196-201
Baldwyn Hodges, Mrs
a fashionable interior designer: CCR 194
business:
as antique dealer and interior decorator: CCR 194; KO 147-8
success in: CCR 194
antithesis of Mr Deacon's: CCR 194
and Hugo Tolland:
meets at Lady Molly's: CCR 194
adopts as:
employee: CCR 194; KO 147, 199
surrogate son: CCR 194
Chips Lovell on relationship with: CCR 194
and other characters:
Mrs Erdleigh: KO 199
Max Pilgrim: KO 147-8
Barber, Mary
a contemporary of NJ at Aldershot: KO 54
taught by Miss Orchard: KO 54
father:
in Queen's Regiment: KO 54
killed in World War 1: KO 77
Barker-Shaw
an officer at Div HQ: SA 21
a don in civilian life:
admired by Bithel as a 'varsity man: SA 21, 60
respected by NJ as man of intelligence: SA 60
military career:
at Div HQ:
Field Security Officer: SA 21, 60, 185; MP 78
member of G mess: SA 21, 185
with MI5: MP 78
on danger to society of:
an educated Diplock: SA 60
Pamela Flitton: MP 78
Barnby, Ralph
an artist and friend of NJ: BM 12
episodes involving:
first meeting at Mr Deacon's shop: BM 170-83; CCR 14; HSH 229
Mr Deacon's party, death and funeral: BM 237-44, 246, 249, 252-3, 258, 261-4
conversations with NJ:
before dining at Foppa's: AW 23, 30-5
mentioned in flashback: AW 74-9, 156, 180
evenings out at:
Foppa's and Mrs Andriadis's: AW 156-8, 161, 164-8, 171, 177, 180; LM 180
the Mortimer and Casanova's Chinese Restaurant: CCR 9, 29-41, 203, 207-8
chance meeting in wartime London: VB 117-9
described: BM 173; AW 30; CCR 30; VB 118
as artist:
pedigree: BM 182
typical characteristics of:
untidiness: BM 170, 175
vagueness: CCR 41
style described: BM 182-3
Mr Deacon's view of: BM 120-1
own view of: CCR 14
contempt for the traditional:
St John Clarke: AW 31-5
Isbister: AW 31, 33
portraits of:
Conchita: TK 76; HSH 191
Norma: CCR 41; TK 235; HSH 191
Lady Anne Stepney: AW 76-7
Baby Wentworth: BM 180
patronage given by:
Mrs Andriadis: AW 167-8
Sir Magnus Donners:
generally: BM 183; AW 161
pictures sold to privately: BM 182; CCR 41; KO 82, 112; HSH 191
mural for Donners-Brebner building: BM 182; AW 31; CCR 14; SA 8; MP 118; TK 128
personal attitude to:
coins "Great Industrialist" tag: AW 31, 78; KO 82
in relation to Baby Wentworth: BM 174, 212, 264; AW 31; CCR 129, 155; TK 120, 159
Sir Herbert Manasch: AW 77-8, 156; CCR 41; BDFR 108; TK 235
reputation:
rising: AW 30-1
cited by Smethyck as exemplar of the modern: AW 119
still not in first rank: AW 80
in the war:
war artist: VB 118
on camouflage:
painter of for RAF: VB 117-20, 131; SA 8, 221
killed in reconnaissance of enemy: SA 221; MP 118; BDFR 58
and NJ:
first heard of by: BM 118, 121
first meeting with: BM 170, 173; CCR 14
introduces:
to Foppa's: AW 152
to the Mortimer: CCR 14, 20
relationship assessed:
in degree of intimacy: BM 202
as influence towards Bohemian society: CCR 20
compared by to:
Erridge: BDFR 58, 60
Charles Stringham: BM 170; BDFR 58, 60
Peter Templer: BM 170; AW 20, 184; BDFR 58, 60
George Tolland: BDFR 58, 60
fund of gnomic comments remembered by on:
art:
collecting of by the rich: BM 211
contemptuous alliterative contrasts on: BM 211; (AW 31, 33)
artists' ignorance of predecessors: BM 182
Moreland's music: CCR 30
characters:
St John Clarke: AW 34
Mr Deacon: BM 241
idiosyncrasies of the social classes:
melancholy and the upper: LM 35
upbringing of daughters in the middle: BM 243
sex:
affairs:
the cuckold's wilful ignorance: BDFR 80
dangers of:
assuming all well in: AW 78-9; KO 245; VB 133; TK 179
complaining after: TK 264
impossibility of generalising onCCR 144; BDFR 64
jealousy of rivals in: BM 280
priority of over duty: VB 95
relative advantages in:
of sizes: BM 185
of wealth: BM 181
marriage: BM 197; KO 82
women:
characteristics of:
forwardness: BM 30; KO 82
emotional acuity: AW 143, 147
redeeming instinct: TK 31
varying ideals of:
artistic: BM 114; AW 74-6
Victorian: VB 192
seen by as:
link between worlds of power and imagination: BM 264-5; CCR 20
embodiment of freedom from platoon affairs: VB 119
touchstone in matters of sex: BM 170, 263, 265; CCR 20, 32; KO 79, 245; VB 192
strangely strict on morals of others: AW 156, 184; CCR 133
man of action:
as lover: BM 264; CCR 13, 30, 38, 42; KO 79; VB 17
on operational flights: VB 120
dying from duty rather than idealism: BDFR 58, 60
and Mr Deacon:
relationship with:
father at Slade with: BM 75
lodges with: BM 118, 121, 170, 173, 177, 241; CCR 14, 19-20; HSH 229
affectionate:
guardianship of: BM 173-5, 242, 266
understanding of: BM 12-13, 94, 175-6, 180, 240-41, 249; CCR 17
attitude to paintings of: BM 13, 176; HSH 229
frequently spoken of by: BM 118, 121-5; CCR 16, 20
tells NJ of death of: BM 237, 241
at birthday party of: BM 244, 249, 252, 258
and funeral of: BM 242, 261-2, 267
and Moreland:
friendship with: CCR 19-20, 30-1, 34; KO 250; TK 235
as fellow artists:
comparison of childhood influences: CCR 10
work:
methods of: CCR 13-14
mutual opinions of: CCR 30
contrast with in approach to girls:
mockery of: CCR 12-13, 32-3
contrast in:
methods: CCR 13-14, 30, 32, 34, 36-8, 42, 208; KO 250; VB 95
tastes: CCR 34-5, 41, 48-9
exemplified in:
conquest of Norma: CCR 9, 38-42
reference to Conchita: HSH 191
and women:
in general:
considerable experience of generally: BM 118, 225, 244, 263-5; AW 20, 30; CCR 32; VB 118
remains unmarried: AW 30
claims never to be in "love": AW 30; LM 70
assessed as a classical seducer: CCR 36-8
taste for coarseness in: CCR 48; VB 192
Mrs Andriadis:
acquaintance with: BM 123, 174-5; AW 167-8, 171
sold drawing to: BM 167-8
stories of the Royal Personage and: BM 114, 124-5,155
Gypsy Jones
dislike of: BM 118, 121, 177, 242, 262, 266
on political views of: BM 176, 243
on morals of: BM 243, 252, 258-9
on relation to Widmerpool: BM 177-8, 183, 217-8, 242
on refusal to attend Mr D's funeral: BM 262
Rosie Manasch: BDFR 108
Mopsy Pontner turned down by: TK 78
Lady Anne Stepney:
first meeting with described: AW 76-9
drawing of: AW 76-7
affair with:
unusually lengthy: AW 156, 221
Stringham on: AW 208
end of:
signs of quarrel foretell: AW 164, 165-7, 177, 180
confirmation of: AW 180
remembered by:
Umfraville: LM 180
NJ: KO 115
Baby Wentworth:
in process of painting: BM 180-1
jealous desire for: BM 174, 180-1, 183, 199, 212, 246; CCR 129
affair with:
NJ attempts to promote: BM 225
success with: BM 263-4; AW 31, 78, 161; CCR 14, 155; TK 111, 120
used by Donners to drop: AW 31
ended: AW 31, 161
Mona: BM 252-4, 258; AW 61, 80
Norma:
initial disparagement of: CCR 34-5, 39, 41
approach to: CCR 9, 39-41, 208
painting of: CCR 41; KO 112
affair with: CCR 41-2
subsequent friendship with: CCR 42
and other characters:
Howard Craggs: BM 243, 258-9
Jean Duport: AW 161
Mrs Foxe: AW 78
Maclintick: CCR 31, 34, 39-41
Mark Members: AW 34
Charles Stringham: BM 181; AW 78
Prince Theodoric: BM 174, 246, 264
Dicky Umfraville: AW 166-8, 221
Barry
son of Audrey: VB 147
illegitimate son of Lady Frederica's maid: VB 154-5
playmate of Caroline Lovell: VB 147, 150, 154
Basset, Sgt
NJ's platoon sergeant: VB 220
described: VB 220-1
NJ's platoon sergeant:
promoted in place of Pendry: VB 220
dubious qualities as: VB 220-1
and the incident of Sayce's helmet: VB 220-1
Belkin, Dr
a Communist agent: TK 114
political status:
citizen of East European country: TK 114
Stalinist: TK 116, 133
downfall of:
shown in failure to attend Venice conference: TK 116, 133, 153, 229
explained by:
Pamela as part of collapse of Stalinism: TK 115-6
Farebrother as possible defection: TK 217
unheard of by Bagshaw: TK 193
work as agent:
regular use made of:
cultural connections: TK 114, 132-3
Venice: TK 132-3
contacts:
Ferrand-Sénéschal: TK 114-6
Tokenhouse:
much admired by: TK 132-3
dealings with: TK 132-3, 148, 152-3, 182, 229
buys picture by: TK 152
Widmerpool:
mutual membership of cultural societies: TK 114
anxiety of concerning Venice meeting: TK 114-9, 148, 153, 182-3
and the scandal involving: TK 193, 217, 229
Berthe
a niece of Mme Leroy at La Grenadière: QU 112
described:
appearance: QU 112
older than Suzette: QU 112
engaged to a civil servant: QU 112, 145
character:
animated:
talkative at table: QU 120
teasing the young boys: QU 121
gossip about:
Mme Dubuisson: QU 121-2
the Örn / Lundquist quarrel: QU 139
pastimes:
tennis: QU 135-6
painting: QU 156
and other characters:
Suzette: QU 112, 135-6, 138-9, 145
Örn and Lundquist:
favours Örn: QU 124, 145
excited by the quarrel Qu138-9
Widmerpool:
NJ muses on feelings of: QU 148
touch on arm of causes reaction of horror: QU 148; BM 76
Biggs, Captain
an officer at Div HQ: SA 8
described: SA 22-3
and the Army:
veteran of WW1: SA 22, 65-6
Staff Officer Physical Training at Div HQ:
position suits:
description: SA 22
civilian job: SA 23
and the cricket pavilion key: SA 14, 219, 221
organisation of boxing tournament: SA 67-8, 71
subsequent reference to: MP 228
member of F mess: SA 8, 65-72, 77, 164-6, 221
character:
aggressive:
loud horseplay: SA 65
bullying of:
Soper: SA 65-8, 70-72
Stringham: SA 67, 69-70, 79, 164
use of verboten: SA 22; MP 228
table manners: SA 67, 69, 71-2, 77, 164
morose:
complaints about:
NJ's arrival: SA 22
lack of administrative assistance: SA 23, 67
F Mess:
accommodation: SA 22
food: SA 65-6, 69-72, 77, 221
depressive moods: SA 65, 164, 166
persecution mania:
senior officers: SA 23, 67-8
the divorce lawyers: SA 23, 166, 221
inferiority complex: SA 66, 70-1, 76, 164-6
suicide by hanging in cricket pavilion: SA 218-21; MP 228
and NJ:
objects to arrival of: SA 22
commiserates with over life as 2nd lieutenant: SA 23
seen by as typifying life at Div HQ: SA 8, 221; MP 228
thoughts of on suicide: SA 219; MP 228
and other characters:
Bithel: SA 68
Gwither: SA 69, 72, 77
Hogbourne-Johnson: SA 68
Macfie: SA 66-7, 71
Pedlar: SA 67-8, 219-20
Soper:
relationship with compared to that between Hogbourne-Johnson and Pedlar:
persecution of: SA 65-8, 70-2
sense of social inferiority to: SA 66, 70-1
reaction by to news of suicide: SA 221
Stringham:
hatred of:
based in sense of social inferiority: SA 70-1, 76, 164-6
expressed in persecution: SA 67, 69-70, 77, 79, 164
the incident of Gen. Fauncefoot-Fritwell's ADC: SA 171
Widmerpool: SA 14, 23
Bill
a guest at Glober's London party: TK 75
character:
lesbian: TK 75
regular party-goer: TK 75
and the Glober party:
unsure of invitation: TK 76
sits silent throughout: TK 77
Billson, Doreen
parlourmaid at Stonehurst and a key figure in the theme of KO: KO 8
described:
appearance: KO 19
estimates of "ageless" age: KO 19, 74-5
family in Suffolk:
pride in: KO 19
return to after breakdown: KO 74
work as parlourmaid at:
"good" houses in London: KO 19
Stonehurst: KO 8-9, 19, 31, 35-7, 56, 60-1, 74-5, 155; TK 202
(probably) Regent's Park for Rosie Manasch: KO 74-5
hysterical temperament:
generally recognised: KO 17, 19-20, 35-8, 45-6, 56, 60-2, 74
reason for working in seclusion of Stonehurst: KO 19-20
and the Stonehurst ghosts:
inherited from predecessor: KO 8, 56, 77
exacerbate nervous disposition: KO 38, 63
claims to have seen:
at various times: KO 7-10, 36, 52, 55-6, 77
in early hours of crucial Sunday: KO 45-6, 61
tells stories of years later: KO 75
and the incident of the cake: KO 31, 35-6, 155
the final breakdown:
happens on a fateful day: KO 38, 45
presaged by distraction in serving: KO 60
occasioned by Albert's giving of notice: KO 52-3, 61, 63
consists of:
naked appearance in drawing-room: KO 60, 62, 64, 219; TK 202
giving of notice herself: KO 63
part played in by General Conyers:
as possible trigger of fear: KO 61
as decisive controller of hysteria: KO 63-5, 135, 154, 219
followed by:
lack of any memory of event: KO 74
medical order to rest:
departure from Stonehurst: KO 74
time spent with family: KO 74
compared to Betty Templer's: KO 135
other traits of character:
pessimism: KO 20-1
clumsiness: KO 20, 60-1
distrust of men:
possibly related to past "disappointment": KO 19, 75
in general: KO 17, 19-20
particular objection to soldiers: KO 22-3, 29
and NJ:
part in childhood thought:
the image of Noah's Ark: KO 9
the kitchen triangle of love: KO 18-20, 22, 47
imaginative fantasies: KO 61-2
recurrence in adult thought:
the Templer triangle of love: KO 135
General Conyers' engagement to Tuffy Weedon: KO 219
bizarre dream concerning Dr Trelawney: KO 201
the story of Pamela at the Bagshaws': TK 202
as harbinger of the Furies: KO 38, 45, 61-2, 74, 77, 135-6
and staff at Stonehurst:
Albert:
loves: KO 18-20, 37, 65, 135
teases: KO 20-1
regarded as mad by: KO 9-10, 20, 22, 75
supported by over incident of the cake: KO 35-7
grief at imminent departure of: KO 52, 61, 63
conflates into the "disappointment": KO 75
forgotten by: KO 154-5
Bracey:
loved by: KO 16-19, 22-3, 52
teases: KO 16-17, 20-1
attacked by over incident of the cake: KO 31, 35-7
on background of: KO 15
Edith:
gossips with: KO 15
shares similar prejudices with: KO 23-4, 29
escorted home by: KO 74
Mrs Gullick:
supported by in times of distress: KO 36, 45, 64
advised by to reject notions of haunting: KO 45-6
Mercy:
comments on religion of: KO 23-4
helped by after breakdown: KO 64
Bischoffsheim
an old boy of Le Bas's house: BDFR 247
remembered as contemporary by NJ: BDFR 247
Bithel
a drunken officer in NJ's battalion: VB 19
episodes involved in:
at base in Wales: VB 19, 23-41, 46, 54, 75, 183, 211
at Battalion training in Northern Ireland: VB 52, 54-5, 74-9, 107
at Castlemallock: VB 203-5, 208-16, 223-5; SA 13, 182-3
at Div HQ:
meets NJ during the blitz: SA 11-21; TK 142
found drunk in street: SA 172-80, 181-5, 187, 211-2; BDFR 227
also mentioned: TK 211-2; HSH 133, 201-2
at the Cutts / Akworth wedding reception: HSH 195-221, 239, 243
at Barnabas Henderson's gallery: HSH 243-50
described: VB 23-5, 34-5, 36-7; SA 11-12; HSH 195-6, 200, 243
early background:
family:
father:
auctioneer: VB 28, 37
dubious reputation: VB 28
death: VB 28
mother:
the green dressing case: VB 46
death: VB 46
shortage of money: VB 28; SA 174
desultory employment:
abortive training as auctioneer: VB 37
the theatre:
attempt to join: VB 37
commissionaire: VB 37, 75; SA 12; TK 142
unemployed: VB 38
and the Army:
career:
gaining of commission:
past service in TA: VB 38; SA 12
lies about identity: VB 40, 54
with the Battalion:
in different company from NJ: VB 54, 85-6
Musketry Officer: VB 75-9
Anti-Gas course:
attendance at: VB 203-16, 223-4
arrest by Gwatkin: VB 213-4, 222-3
acquittal by CO: VB 224-5
dismissal from:
seen as inevitable: VB 203
Emmott incident offers reason: VB 224
memories of:
conscious: SA 12
in drunken songs: SA 175-6; HSH 200, 203, 245
with Mobile Laundry at Div HQ:
move to: VB 204, 224, 234, 253
position as CO: SA 11-13, 68, 165-6, 172-4, 176-8, 209; HSH 133, 201
member of G mess: SA 21, 172-5, 178-9, 181
love of: SA 173, 182
dismissal from:
regarded as inevitable: SA 12-13, 16, 173; HSH 133
engineered by Widmerpool: SA 173, 181-5, 209, 212; HSH 133, 201-2
occasioned by drunkenness: SA 181-5, 212; TK 212
effect of: SA 182; HSH 133, 202
ended: SA 183
failure as officer:
appearance marred by:
incongruous kit: VB 36-7, 46; SA 11
scruffiness: VB 24-5, 54; SA 12
age: VB 19, 25, 52; HSH 243
lack of fitness: VB 25, 41, 55, 85-6; SA 14
behaviour prejudicial to good discipline: VB 34-6, 55, 76-7, 211-3, 231-2; SA 15-16, 175, 182, 184-5
unpunctuality: VB 19, 24-5, 34-6
squeamishness as to coarse behaviour: VB 26-8, 41
successes:
liked:
by fellow-officers:
sporting response to rag: VB 29, 31-3, 41
defended sympathetically by: VB 74, 79, 214, 224-5
possibly by men: VB 74
the Divisional Concert party: SA 12, 166, 176-7, 211
aspects of the Mobile Laundry: SA 173
opinion of Italy's joining the War: VB 225-6
otherwise mentioned: HSH 243-4, 246
later life:
alcoholic drop-out: HSH 201, 239
with Murtlock's community: HSH 195-8, 201-3, 205, 208-9, 214, 216, 239-40, 243-50
character:
pathetic egoism:
recognised by NJ as dominant characteristic: VB 75-6; SA 17-18; HSH 200, 202
self-advertisement as:
brother of the battalion VC: VB 19, 39-40, 54-5, 209, 253; SA 13
rugger international: VB 19, 25, 39-40, 253
perfect choice to run:
Boy Scouts: VB 75
mobile laundry: VB 204
expert on artillery: SA 11-12
fantasy of the hero: SA 17-20, 58, 176
guilty embarrassment:
general air: VB 23-5, 36, 75; SA 12, 18
sympathy-seeking confessions on:
fabrications of fame: VB 39-40
lack of money:
affected education: VB 28
from employment: VB 37-8
mess bill: VB 210
the bounced chequeSA 15-16, 20, 173
the dressing-case: VB 46
nonchalance re more serious failures:
missing parade: VB 41
the incidents of:
Deafy Morgan: VB 78
Emmott: VB 210, 225-6
namelessness amongst fellows: VB 210
drink:
in general: VB 25, 27-8, 40, 75, 203, 210-11; SA 21, 68; HSH 133, 202-5, 239-40, 244-5
particular incidents:
the bizarre love-dance: VB 30-2, 41, 75, 183, 211
failure to turn up for duty on first day: VB 34-6
after the gas-chamber:
overdoes "remedial" treatmentVB 210, 213; SA 13
the incident with Emmott: VB 212-6, 224-5
at Div HQ:
found by Stringham: SA 170-84, 212
maudlin behaviour: SA 174-80
found by Widmerpool: SA 178-80
repercussions: SA 181-5, 212
at the Stourwater wedding: HSH 200-6, 209, 220-1
at Barnabas Henderson's gallery: HSH 243-50
degeneration resulting from:
almost causes death: HSH 201, 239
mental and physical wreckage: HSH 243-6
pills: VB 28, 35, 85-6; SA 11, 15
cigars: VB 28, 30-1, 33-5
homosexuality:
hints revealed in:
amorous reaction to the dummy: VB 30-2
dubious attitude to marriage: VB 38
interest in sexual psychology: VB 38-9, 64
the court case: SA 19
the young men at the wedding: HSH 209
attitude to Scorpio Murtlock: HSH 246
dubious attitudes to:
Boy Scouts: VB 75
Other Ranks:
generally: SA 175
Daniels: VB 36, 55, 76-7, 205
reading habits:
digests: VB 38-9, 64
St John Clarke: SA 16; TK 142
boys' adventure stories: SA 17-20, 58, 176
and NJ:
first meeting with: VB 24, 27-8
attempts to ingratiate himself with:
as respecter of "'varsity men": VB 27-8, 33, 37; SA 21, 176-8; HSH 246
as reader: VB 38-9; SA 16-19 ; TK 141
strange intimacy of conversations with: VB 28, 37-41, 54, 75-6, 203-4, 210; SA 14-20
and the attempted rescue: SA 172-80; BDFR 227
considered by:
in comparison to:
Erridge: SA 17
Gwatkin: SA 18
on the nature of fear: SA 19-20
as a "wayfaring man": MP 228
and other characters:
Ablett: SA 12, 176-7, 211
Barker-Shaw: SA 21, 60, 185
Biggs: SA 68
Breeze: VB 29, 31, 33, 79
Chuck: HSH 250
Fiona Cutts: HSH 203-4, 208-9, 214, 240
Canon Fenneau: HSH 240, 249
Greening: HSH 133, 202
Gwatkin:
attempts to befriend: VB 209-12
detested by: VB 54-5, 74, 79, 203, 208, 211-12, 215, 224
causes trouble to in incidents of:
Deafy Morgan: VB 74, 79, 107
Emmott and the arrest: VB 213-5, 223-5; SA 182-3
own assessment of: VB 225
different views of romantic heroism: SA 18
Barnabas Henderson:
usefulness to:
generally: HSH 239
the Modigliani drawing: HSH 232, 240, 243-4, 249-50
Jones D: VB 205
Kedward: VB 19, 29-31, 33, 35-6, 77, 211, 214, 223
Maelgwyn-Jones: VB 203-4
Scorpio Murtlock:
saved from imminent death by: HSH 201, 239
worships: HSH 239, 246
regarded with special favour by: HSH 201-2, 205, 220-1, 240
usefulness to in:
practical chores: HSH 239-40, 242, 249
ritual: HSH 239
describes as murderer of Widmerpool: HSH 246-8
determination to leave: HSH 246-8
Max Pilgrim: SA 175
Pumphrey: VB 24-5, 29-31, 33
Stringham:
and suitability of for mobile laundry: SA 165-6, 177
and the attempted rescue by: SA 172-80, 184-5, 212
regard for as 'varsity man: SA 172, 176-8
Widmerpool:
and the VC story:
enthusiastically believed by: VB 253; SA 13
cause of bitterness to: SA 13
enmity of leads to dismissal from Army: SA 13, 16, 173, 181-5, 212; HSH 133, 201-2
found drunk by: SA 179-80
naïve gratitude to for Stringham's posting: SA 176
as fellow member of Murtlock's community:
penance performed by: HSH 201-2, 207, 248
attempts by to discipline: HSH 204-5, 220
instrumental in final collapse of: HSH 220, 242
deference to as Lord: HSH 245-8
tells story of death of: HSH 245-8
Williams, IG: VB 34-6
Blackhead, Mr
a clerk in the War Office: MP 36
described: MP 47
position in the War Office:
difficult to define: MP 44
exile to remote floor:
described: MP 42-3
history of: MP 45-6
gives birth to catch-phrase: MP 46
the ultimate obstructive bureaucrat:
in general:
secretive: MP 43
inhabits a world of files: MP 47-8, 223
production of abstract minutes: MP 43-4, 49
compared to:
Diplock: MP 43, 146
Tsarist officials: MP 43
Short: BDFR 11
particular examples:
straw for Polish palliasses: MP 36-7, 42, 48, 50-1
soap for Polish Women's Corps: MP 47-50
supplies for the Belgian resistance: MP 197, 200
and NJ:
obstructive power dreaded by: MP 37, 42, 44-5, 90, 197
lives on in mind of:
at Victory Day Service: MP 223
when encountering:
a former colleague: MP 45-6
Short: BDFR 11
and other characters:
Finn: MP 200
Pennistone:
tactics described by: MP 43-4
subtly challenged by:
permanently: MP 36, 90
the soap minute: MP 47-51, 60
Blaides, Hon. Mildred
one-time fiancée of Widmerpool: LM 10
episodes involving:
at the Conyers' during NJ's childhood: LM 10-13, 14, 42, 50, 87, 89
at Lady Molly's: LM 45-50, 87
at Dicky Umfraville's club: LM 183-201
described: LM 10-11, 45-6, 48, 184
families:
youngest daughter of Lord Vowchurch: LM 11, 62, 89, 199-200; CCR 86, 188
sister of:
Mrs Conyers: LM 10-13, 42-3, 45-8, 50, 61-2, 68, 73, 77, 83, 87, 190, 199
another unmarried: LM 68-9
distant cousin of:
Jack Vowchurch: LM 199
Baby Wentworth: LM 199; TK 121
twice widowed after marriages to:
M'Cracken: LM 42-3, 62
Haycock: LM 43, 60, 62, 214
two Haycock children: LM 43, 62-3, 166, 190-1, 227, 236
lifestyles:
VAD in World War 1 nurse at Dogdene: LM 10-11, 43, 175, 195, 215-6
between marriages: LM 42-3, 84
south of France: LM 43, 48-9, 62, 166, 189-90, 198-9, 214; CCR 126
left well off: LM 43, 60
character:
formed by:
war: LM 48
lack of discipline: LM 8, 26, 62
"rackety" behaviour:
desire to shock:
smoking: LM 11-12, 84
affected speech: LM 11-13, 49-50, 161, 199
dress: LM 184, 187-8, 195-6
general reputation: LM 13, 42, 44, 62-4, 201, 228
past affairs with:
Buster Foxe: LM 166-7
Ted Jeavons: LM 174-7, 179, 184-5, 189, 195, 197
Dicky Umfraville: LM 198
a great many others: LM 49, 176, 214; TK 121
flirtatious treatment of Templer: LM 184, 187-8, 197
Widmerpool circulates rumour of: CCR 126
effect of on health and looks: LM 46; TK 121
impulsive rashness: LM 43, 73
and NJ:
powerful impression on as a child: LM 12-14, 45-6
mother's disapproval felt by: LM 12-13
place in the "Dance" theme: LM 14-15
place in efforts of to understand:
the nature of love: LM 69-70
Widmerpool: LM 48-9; MP 114, 236; TK 19
and the Jeavonses:
Lady Molly:
acquaintance with from Dogdene days: LM 12-13, 42, 60, 160, 176, 188, 192, 215-6
object of comments by: LM 160, 216
Ted:
weekend affair with in 1917: LM 174-7, 179, 184-5, 189, 195, 197; CCR 177
no recognition of at subsequent meetings: LM 50, 176, 188, 191-3
reunion with at Dicky Umfraville's club: LM 194-201, 215-6; CCR 177
and Widmerpool:
engagement to:
as yet unannounced: LM 43, 47-9, 51, 57, 63, 68-70, 75, 83-4, 232
established: LM 159-60, 165-6, 174, 186, 193, 201, 214, 216
over: LM 215, 225, 235-6; CCR 86, 125-6, 188; KO 225; MP 114, 236; TK 121
ill-suited to:
much older than: LM 44, 59, 68-9, 75, 166, 174-5, 236
noticeably different from in character: LM 48-9, 51
too self-willed for: LM 57, 61, 76-7, 87-8, 160, 195-6, 216, 227-8
insensitive towards concerning:
illness: LM 188, 195-6
sexual failure: LM 229-30
future plans different from: LM 189-90, 236
problems with over:
children: LM 62-3, 190-1, 227, 236
Mrs Widmerpool: LM 57, 191, 236-7; CCR 125
weekend at Dogdene:
Widmerpool's plans for: LM 61-5, 193-4
manufactured invitation to: LM 193, 214, 226; CCR 188
disastrous outcome of:
strained atmosphere: LM 228
Widmerpool's early departure: LM 229
Mildred's blunt narrative: LM 229-30
later mentions of: CCR 125; KO 225; MP 114; TK 19
and other characters:
friendships with:
Mrs Andriadis: LM 198
Alice, Lady Sleaford: LM 60, 214, 226
object of comments by:
Frederica Budd: LM 83-5
General Conyers:
on problems of character: LM 75-7, 87, 228-9
on the weekend at Dogdene: LM 225-30
Mrs Jenkins: LM 13
Chips Lovell: LM 214-5; CCR 188
Susan Cutts: CCR 86
Tuffy Weedon: LM 165-6
Bobrowski, General
a Polish military attaché: MP 21
Polish military attaché:
history of military service:
WW1- in Russian infantry: MP 30
WW2:
in France at start of: MP 30-1
orchestrates evacuation to England: MP 30
major-general: MP 30
and particular episodes:
news of:
the release of Poles into Persia: MP 21
the Katyn massacre: MP 108
the Szymanski affair: MP 95-6
the trip to Europe: MP 157, 163-9, 183-4, 186; HSH 5, 21-2
attitude to expressed by:
Pennistone: MP 30, 37, 69
Widmerpool: MP 21
after the War:
missing from Victory Day Service: MP 219
exiled: HSH 22
otherwise mentioned: MP 69
death by taxi: HSH 22
character:
impatient and excitable: MP 30, 69, 95-6, 98; HSH 5, 22
interest in:
country pursuits:
sporting prints: MP 37
shooting: MP 164; HSH 5, 21-2
skiing: MP 164, 166
sense of humour:
ironic attitude to Lebedev: MP 157
the incident of the bath: MP 165, 167-9
desire to be noticed with Field-Marshal:
abortive attempt to follow mode of dress: MP 183-4
jockeying for position in photograph: MP 186
man of action: HSH 22
and General Philidor:
the duck-shooting argument: MP 164; HSH 5, 21-2
similar deaths: HSH 22
and the themes of:
mortality: HSH 22
the "Dance": HSH 5, 21-2
Borda
a Free French liaison officer: MP 243
Kernével's assistant: MP 243-4
from Roussillon: MP 244
service in North Africa: MP 244
on the issue of demob outfits: MP 244
engaged to English girl:
later marries: MP 244
embarrassed by Kernéval's story: MP 244
Borrit
a British liaison officer: MP 34
described: MP 34
career:
as civilian:
wholesale fruit trader: MP 34-5, 38, 203
acquires good knowledge of the Spanish: MP 34, 228-9; BDFR 205
in army:
at Intelligence HQ on Gold Coast: MP 34, 243; TK 157
at War Office:
with Neutrals: MP 34, 224
with Netherlands: MP 34-5
remembered by NJ: MP 228, 243; BDFR 205; TK 157
demob: MP 203
character:
sense of humour: MP 38, 89, 203, 228-9; BDFR 205
melancholy: MP 38, 203
and women:
family life:
widower of Canadian wife: MP 35, 38
children in Canada: MP 38
to remarry a wealthy widow: MP 204
the "amatory twilight":
longing for "a free poke": MP 38, 74, 204
use of prostitutes: MP 114
Pamela Flitton:
fascinated by: MP 37-8, 61-2, 64, 79, 203, 228
story of honeymoon couples fits Trapnel and: BDFR 205
and other characters:
Finn:
work with Latin Americans admired by: MP 224
views on bureaucracy shared by: MP 243
Masham: MP 89
NJ:
considered by as a "wayfaring man": MP 228
compared by to:
Widmerpool: MP 114, 204
Farebrother: MP 204
recalled by in respect of Ada's attitude to gossip: TK 157-8
Pennistone and rivalry over the staff car: MP 34-6, 38-9
Stebbings:
succeeded by: MP 34
shares interest in fruit trade with: MP 35, 203
tells NJ of death of: MP 203-4
death: MP 204
Bracey, Private
Captain Jenkins's soldier servant: KO 7
described: KO 14-15, 154
family:
dislike of brothers: KO 15, 19
suicide of sister: KO 15
preference for widowed sister-in-law: KO 14, 52
military career:
as soldier servant: KO 9, 14-18, 30-1, 73, 75-6, 154; VB 73
no action before World War 1: KO 27
to France with BEF: KO 76, 154
killed in retreat from Mons: KO 77, 154
character:
uneducated: KO 15, 154
fanatically smart:
in himself: KO 14-15, 26
in valeting work: KO 17-18, 30-1, 161
melancholic:
"funny days": KO 15-18, 22, 24, 29, 35, 37, 41, 52, 64, 75, 77, 154
occasionally varied by high spirits: KO 24
stolid and unflappable: KO 15, 17, 30-1
and Captain Jenkins:
worship of: KO 18
favoured by because of:
excellent work:
in general: KO 15, 17-18, 161
in episode of the hunting breeches: KO 30-1
similarity in character: KO 17, 41
occasionally reprimanded by: KO 14, 17-18
the mystic bond: VB 77
and NJ:
introduces to military life in the football excursion: KO 24-37
helps feed imaginative fantasies of with respect to:
human relationships:
Noah's Ark: KO 9
the triangle of love: KO 18-19
the story of the cake: KO 31, 35-7
military life:
the meaning of comradeship: KO 26-7, 29; VB 73
the seamy side:
the Military Policeman: KO 25, 67
the bandaged malingerer: KO 28-9, 31
figures in memory as:
compared to:
Daniels: VB 77
Sunny Farebrother: KO 27
Uncle Giles: KO 161
one pursued by the Furies: KO 75, 161
example of the bond joining officer and servant: VB 77
and the staff at Stonehurst:
Albert:
shares quarters in stables: KO 7, 14; VB 203
difficult relationship: KO 14-15, 18-19, 24, 29-31, 37
disagreement over the incident of the cake: KO 31, 35-7
unmoved by announcement of departure: KO 52
barely remembered by: KO 154
Billson:
loves: KO 18, 20, 35, 52
opposes over the cake: KO 35-7
treatment by:
teasing: KO 16-17, 20-1
rejection as suitor: KO 16-17, 19, 22-3
misses breakdown of: KO 69
Mercy: KO 24
opinions of:
Military Police: KO 25
bayonet and rifle as a man's best friend: KO 26-7; VB 73
the Germans and the likelihood of war: KO 26-7, 89
malingerers: KO 28-9
the cake: KO 31, 35-7
Braddock alias Thorne
a petty fraudster: QU 38
described from police poster as similar to Le Bas: QU 39
incident of:
a schoolboy jape:
Stringham informs police of "sighting": QU 47
Le Bas arrested as: QU 48-52
remembered by:
NJ: QU 127-9, 217, 219
Templer: AW 193
lasting effect of on Le Bas: QU 71-2
significance of to portrait of Stringham:
example of skill as mimic: QU 52
touchstone of relationships:
in the episode itself with Le Bas: QU 38, 72
in later attitude to it with NJ: QU 219; AW 193
occasion of the prescient remark re Widmerpool: QU 51
Widmerpool's horror at: QU 48-50, 127, 129
Bragadin, Jacky
a wealthy member of international society: TK 46
episodes involved in:
the Conference delegates visit to the Palazzo: TK 81, 119-20, 122-3
dinner that evening: TK 157-9, 202
described: TK 81
position in wealthy society:
family:
ancestry:
Venetian:
traced to patron of Casanova: TK 46
and the Council of Ten: TK 48, 89
visible in appearance: TK 81
American:
mother from Philadelphia: TK 47, 81
the Macwattter fortune: TK 47
unmarried: TK 47
ownership of the Bragadin Palazzo:
bought just after the war: TK 47
guests:
staying:
Glober: TK 67-9, 79, 102, 112, 120, 135, 157-8, 169, 174-5
Baby Wentworth: TK 120, 157-8, 169, 247
the Widmerpools: TK 84-5, 99-100, 106, 112, 114, 119-20, 149, 157-9, 168-9, 173-6, 202, 247, 251, 260
visiting:
the Conference delegates: TK 46-8, 66, 81, 85, 99-100, 112-3, 118-9, 122-3, 135, 149; HSH 55
for dinner: TK 157-8
and the Tiepolo ceiling:
anxious secrecy concerning: TK 47-8, 81, 119, 122
also mentioned eponymously: TK 273
philanthropic Foundation: TK 47, 122
member of the smart international set:
appearance in gossip columns: TK 14, 114
frequent entertainment of: TK 47, 114
involvement of in the spying scandal: TK 174-5
friend of Sir Herbert Manasch: TK 168
delicate health:
nervous disposition: TK 48, 81, 119-20, 122-3
heart and chest problems: TK 158, 168, 173-4
death: HSH 55
and other characters:
Dr Brightman: TK 46-8, 119-20, 122; HSH 55
Gwinnett:
on American connections: TK 47
as possible beneficiary of the Foundation: TK 122
Rosie Manasch: TK 168-9, 173
Odo Stevens: TK 168
Daniel Tokenhouse: TK 114
Brandreth, Dr
a doctor and old boy of Le Bas's house: AW 184
episodes involving:
the Le Bas Old boys' dinner: AW 184, 204-6, 209, 212; CCR 98, 122
at the nursing home: CCR 98-103, 191; KO 137
described: AW 184; CCR 98-9
remembered from school:
as slightly older than NJ: CCR 98
otherwise mentioned: AW 184; CCR 122; BDFR 247
in the world of medicine:
father received baronetcy for: AW 205
as practising doctor:
takes charge of Le Bas after stroke: AW 205-6, 209, 212; CCR 98, 122
personal physician to:
St John Clarke: CCR 103
the Morelands: CCR 99, 103; KO 137; BDFR 129
Widmerpool: CCR 100-1, 122, 191; KO 137
character:
love of:
gossip: CCR 104
music: CCR 100, 102-4; BDFR 129
pomposity: AW 205; CCR 98-101, 122
obsequiousness: CCR 100-1
and other characters:
Mark Members: CCR 103
Moreland:
and treatment of Matilda: CCR 98-100,
disliked by: CCR 103, 129
lionises: CCR 100-3; KO 137
Alfred Tolland: AW 206
Stringham: AW 209
Widmerpool:
reaction to speech of at Old Boys' dinner: AW 204
impresses by firm control of Le Bas situation: AW 212; CCR 122
becomes personal physician to: CCR 100-1, 122, 191; KO 137
feeds self-importance of: CCR 100-1
Braybrook, Dolly
first wife of Dicky Umfraville: VB 160
beauty: VB 160
tragic story of:
daughter of regimental colonel: VB 160
and men:
Dicky Umfraville:
long courted by: VB 160-1
short but happy marriage to: VB 161
divorce from: VB 162
and hatred of Buster: VB 160-2
Buster Foxe:
seduced by: VB 161
abandoned by for Mrs Stringham: VB 162
suicide by overdose of sleeping pills: AW 166; VB 162
Breen, Jo
a jockey: VB 163
as jockey suspension for cheating: VB 163
as part of Dicky Umfraville's life story husband of Joy Grant:
seduces from Lord Castlemallock: VB 163
keeps pub with in Thames Valley: VB 163-4
Breeze, Gwenllian
sister of Yanto: VB 22
and Rowland Gwatkin:
deeply loved by: VB 22, 201
rejects: VB 22
possible cause of animosity of towards Yanto: VB 231
married to Swansea professor: VB 22
Breeze, Lt Evan ("Yanto")
a fellow-officer in NJ's company: VB 20
personal details:
age: VB 20
married: VB 20, 201
work as accountant: VB 21
sister rejected Gwatkin: VB 22, 201, 231
and the Army:
platoon commander:
in Gwatkin's company: VB 20, 46, 50, 56, 84, 86, 99, 106-7; SA 32-3
already full lieutenant: VB 21
liked by men: VB 22
careless about:
ambition: VB 21
tidiness: VB 21-2, 51; SA 33
and Sergeant Pendry:
low opinion of as sergeant: VB 22-3, 80, 88
suicide of:
involvement with: VB 82, 105-7; SA 32-3
upset by Court of Inquiry on: VB 107; SA 32-3
promotion to Captain in:
Traffic Control Company: VB 230
Anti-tank Company: SA 32-3
opinions on:
military strategy: VB 21
General Liddament: VB 99, 104
relationships with:
Bithel:
the rag:
reluctance to cause distress to: VB 29
pleasure at response of: VB 31, 33
defends against Gwatkin: VB 74, 79
Gwatkin:
mutual animosity: VB 21-2, 50, 54, 74, 82, 107, 230-1
takes opposite view to: VB 74, 79, 86, 107
blamed by for Pendry's death: VB 107
Kedward: VB 21-2, 24, 28, 31, 33, 46, 51, 56, 82, 104, 230-1
NJ:
shares room with at base: VB 28, 33, 51, 56
introduces to fellow officers: VB 22-4
well regarded by: VB 22-3; SA 33
seen by as illustrating debate over Recce Corps: SA 32-3
Pumphrey: VB 28-9, 31, 33, 51, 56
Brent, Jimmy
a businessman and friend of Peter Templer: QU 185
episodes involved in:
incident with girls in Templer's car: QU 185-93; BM 150; KO 167-8, 181; VB 125-6
training course at Aldershot: VB 125-41, 178-9; BDFR 107
described:
appearance: QU 185; VB 125
unpleasant voice: QU 187, 189-90
career:
business:
in the City: QU 185
oil: VB 126,137-40; BDFR 107
the Army:
good fortune in contriving commission into: VB 127
lack of enthusiasm for: VB 131
to ITC for posting: VB 179
and women:
in general:
obsession with: QU 187-8; KO 181
regarded concerning:
by Templer:
knowledgeable on lesbians: AW 48
something of a joke: VB 131
by Duport as a failure: QU 187; KO 181-2, 184; VB 131, 141
preference for socially inferior:
Flora: QU 187-8
Pauline:
responsible for idea of picking up: QU 188
behaviour with: QU 189-93
club girls:
at the Cabaret: QU 187
cigarette seller at the Old Plantation: VB 139
frequently ditched by: KO 181; VB 139
uncomfortable with Jean: VB 139
Jean Duport:
affair with recounted:
by Duport: KO 179-83; VB 133-4; MP 239
by Brent himself:
first meeting: VB 136-8
S America & Duports' reunion: VB 126, 136, 138-9
decision to end: VB 139-41
wish for discretion over: VB 133, 178
remembered by NJ: BDFR 107
remembered by with affection: BDFR 107
marriage to widow with two grown-up sons: BDFR 107
and NJ:
regarded by as:
unpleasant: QU 185; KO 167; VB 125
preferable to Duport: QU 185, 187
welcome acquaintance amongst the unknown: VB 125, 129-30
affects attitude of to Jean through story of affair: KO 181-4; VB 126, 133-41
and Duport:
despised by: KO 168, 179-82, 184; VB 131, 141
business associate of: QU 185; KO 181-2; BDFR 107
in South America with: KO 181-2; VB 126-7, 138-40
attitude to:
great admiration: VB 131-2, 141
Awareness of weakness in loose talk: VB 133
understanding in:
relationship with Jean: VB 140-1
love for Polly: VB 140
help in restoration of: BDFR 107
and Templer:
friendship with: QU 185, 187, 193, 195; BM 150; AW 48; KO 167; VB 125-6, 131, 136-8; BDFR 107
has respect for shrewdness of: VB 126
and beginning of affair with Betty: VB 136-8
and other characters:
Sir Magnus Donners: VB 126
MacFadden: VB 130-1
Lady McReith: VB 136-7
Stevens: VB 129, 178
Stringham: QU 185, 192-4
Widmerpool: VB 126-7
Brian
a military friend of Odo Stevens: SA 145
described: SA 145-7
Captain: SA 145
and Stevens at the Café Royal:
boisterous jocularity towards: SA 146-7
provides opportunity for to leave: SA 146-7
Bridgnorth, Countess of
mother of the Stepney girls: QU 220
as half of "the Bridgnorths":
houses
London:
Cavendish Square: BM 234
Grosvenor Square: QU 221
country seat Mountfichet: AW 207-8; CCR 170
parents of:
John, Lord Mountfichet: AW 157; LM 37; CCR 90
Lady Peggy Stepney:
mentioned: QU 220; AW 171
and Stringham:
invitation to causes his breach with NJ: QU 220, 222; BM 50; MP 118
unhappiness at marriage between:
doubts by NJ: BM 222
gossip by Rosie Manasch: BM 232
evident at wedding: BM 235-6
relief at remarriage: AW 157
Lady Anne Stepney:
mentioned: BM 49-50; AW 78, 158-9, 171; LM 182
resigned acceptance of:
rebellious behaviour: AW 157
marriage to Dicky Umfraville: AW 195
and other characters:
related to the Tollands: AW 194-5
Duke of Connaught entertained: SA 77
regarded by:
Rosie Manasch as "stuffy": BM 232
Stringham as insufferable: AW 207-8; CCR 170-22
as individual:
personal name Mary: LM 12
described: BM 236
ancestry: BM 236
distantly related to Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson: BM 236
work on hospital committees:
in World War 1: LM 12
commented on by:
Mrs Conyers: LM 12
Lady Warminster: CCR 88
partisanship concerning:
favours St John's: LM 12
in opposition to Mrs Foxe: BM 236; CCR 88
main interest in life: AW 157
Bridgnorth, Earl of
father of the Stepney girls: QU 220
as half of "the Bridgnorths":
houses
London:
Cavendish Square: BM 234
Grosvenor Square: QU 221
country seat Mountfichet: AW 207-8; CCR 170
parents of:
John, Lord Mountfichet: AW 157; LM 37; CCR 90
Lady Peggy Stepney:
mentioned: QU 220; AW 171
and Stringham:
invitation to causes his breach with NJ: QU 220; BM 50; MP 118
unhappiness at marriage between:
doubts by NJ: BM 222
gossip by Rosie Manasch: BM 232
evident at wedding: BM 235-6
relief at remarriage: AW 157
Lady Anne Stepney:
mentioned: BM 49-50; AW 78, 157-9, 171; LM 182
resigned acceptance of:
rebellious behaviour: AW 157
marriage to Dicky Umfraville: AW 195
and other characters:
related to the Tollands: AW 194-5
Duke of Connaught entertained: SA 77
regarded by:
Rosie Manasch as "stuffy": BM 232
Stringham as insufferable: AW 207-8; CCR 170-22
as individual:
known as "Eddie": AW 158-9, 171; KO 235
described: BM 236
past history:
Major in Royal Horse Guards: CCR 172
dubious reputation:
friendship with:
Dicky Umfraville: AW 158-9, 171
Mrs Andriadis: AW 171
put behind him: AW 171
interests:
horse-racing: QU 220; BM 236; AW 157, 159, 171, 208; LM 165; CCR 172
politics: AW 157
and other characters:
Stringham:
hated by: AW 207-8; LM 165; CCR 170-2; SA 77
butt of stories told by: SA 77
Ted Jeavons:
sympathy felt by over Lady Anne: LM 182
sees selling of home-farm as unwise: KO 235
Lady Molly great affection for: LM 165
Harrison Wisebite comments by: SA 77
Brightman, Dr Emily
a distinguished academic: TK 7
episodes involved in:
in Venice:
various conversations with NJ: TK 7-9, 22-4, 45-56, 66, 70, 83, 87, 99, 104-5, 145, 181-2, 184, 247; HSH 73
at the Bragadin Palazzo: TK 46-7, 56, 81-120, 122; HSH 55
party at the Soviet embassy: TK 220-1, 224-5
the Magnus Donners Memorial Prize:
at committee meetings: HSH 54-7, 63-72
at the presentation: HSH 87-106
described: TK 8-9, 23, 220; HSH 55, 88
Brightman family relationship to:
Harold: TK 9
Rev Salathiel: TK 9
character:
academic brilliance:
wide ranging erudition:
the Tiepolo ceiling: TK 47-8, 81-3, 89, 92-6, 103; HSH 55-6
NJ's study of Burton: TK 8, 94, 247
various other subjects: TK 53-5, 93-4, 181, 247, 281; HSH 55, 93-4, 106
combative pedantry: TK 95, 281; HSH 55-6, 88
career:
reputation:
as formidable tutor: TK 9; HSH 106
as distinguished scholar: TK 85, 122; HSH 55
American professorial exchange: TK 23-4, 162
specialist on the Dark Ages:
books on:
The Triads: TK 8; HSH 55
Boethius: TK 9, 221; HSH 55
read by NJ: TK 162
otherwise mentioned: TK 184; HSH 56, 72
Awarded DBE: HSH 55
on the Donners prize committee: HSH 54-7, 63-72, 82, 86-7, 92-4, 96, 100, 106
sharp wit: TK 23, 47, 55, 82, 97, 224-5; HSH 55
on the confusion of taste and morals: HSH 63, 67, 69, 169
and sex:
spinster: TK 8
deliberate avoidance of spinsterish prudery: TK 8-9, 22-3, 46-52, 83, 93-6; HSH 55, 88
the incident at Pompeii: TK 23
hints of lesbianism: TK 83, 181, 184, 220; HSH 55
and other characters:
Jacky Bragadin:
on the character of: TK 46-8
attempt to persuade re foundation and Gwinnett: TK 119-20, 122
Gibson Delavacquerie: HSH 54-5, 63-7, 71
Ferrand-Sénéschal:
contempt for: TK 23
fascinated by story of Pamela and: TK 48-51
and the concept of courts and harems: TK 23
Pamela:
fascinated by: TK 83, 86, 184; HSH 55
comments concerning:
and the Ferrand-Sénéschal scandal: TK 49-52, 83
in relation to Gwinnett: TK 50, 181; HSH 56
meeting with beneath Tiepolo ceiling: TK 84, 86-7, 89, 94-6
Glober:
and the Tiepolo ceiling: TK 92-6, 103
and the concept of courts and harems: TK 106, 139
Gwinnett:
sometime colleague of: TK 23-5, 46, 162-3, 220; HSH 56-7, 94, 106
relationship with:
described: TK 46; HSH 86, 93-4
illustrated in conversation in Venice: TK 46-53
one of mutual admiration: TK 54, 162-3; HSH 66, 93, 100, 106
attempt to analyse character of: TK 53-6, 66, 70, 87, 104-5, 145, 163, 181-2, 202; HSH 73
and the Bragadin Foundation: TK 122
and the Trapnel biography: HSH 57, 65-7, 69-70, 82, 93
Ada Leintwardine: TK 155, 181, 184, 220
Mark Members: TK 9-10; HSH 54-6, 63-7, 69, 88, 92
Matilda: HSH 55, 57
the Quiggin twins: HSH 106
Quentin Shuckerley: TK 99, 102
Sillery: TK 9, 99
X Trapnel: TK 54; HSH 57, 64
Widmerpool: HSH 55, 69, 106
Brightman, Harold
a university don: QU 165
academic life:
don: QU 203; BM 249; CCR 193; TK 9
lectures attended by:
Quiggin: QU 173, 195, 205-6
NJ: QU 195, 205-6; TK 9
Paul (Canon Fenneau): TK 173
early reputation: QU 206
involved in archaeological dig in Near East: QU 165
and Sillery:
relationship with:
perennial friction in: QU 165, 202, 205-6; AW 119; CCR 193
eventually smoothed in friendship: BDFR 13; TK 9
enjoys Hugo's discomfiture of: CCR 193
on peerage of: BDFR 32
ninetieth birthday dinner for: TK 9
barbed wit: BM 249; BDFR 13, 32
Brightman family relationship to:
Dr Emily: TK 9
Rev Salathiel: TK 9
and other characters:
Humble: QU 204
Members: QU 204
Short: QU 203-4; CCR 193
Quiggin:
don at college of: QU 203; BM 249
cutting comments on:
myth of poverty and low origins: QU 203-4
demise of university career: BM 249
clothes: BDFR 13
Brightman, Rev. Salathiel
an Augustan pedant: TK 9
ancestor of both Dr Emily and Harold: TK 9
pedantry:
work on ludicrously abstruse weights and measures: TK 9
mentioned in "The Dunciad": TK 9
Broadbent
a Civil Servant: MP 22
colleague of Templer at MEW: MP 22
Bruylant
a Belgian military attaché: MP 220
Belgian military attaché:
successor to Kucherman: MP 220
professional soldier: MP 220
at Victory Day Service: MP 220, 223
character:
quiet: MP 220
fond of music: MP 220, 223
Budd
a pupil in Le Bas's house: QU 14
cousin of Margaret: BM 39-40
at school:
heroic and handsome: QU 14
Captain of the Eleven: QU 14; BM 39; SA 58
member of Musical Society: QU 15
and Widmerpool:
slavishly adored by: QU 15, 17
the incident of the banana:
recounted by Stringham: QU 14-15
recalled by NJ:
upon seeing Margaret: BM 39
in the incident of the sugar: BM 79
during H-Johnson's tirade: SA 57-8
in relation to Glober's peach: TK 158
symbolic significance of seen by:
Stringham: QU 15; BM 79
NJ: BM 79; SA 57-8
Budd, Christopher
older son of Lady Frederica: VB 147
reason for mother's move to country cottage: LM 95; KO 206; VB 143
aged about 12 at outbreak of war: VB 147
at Lady Frederica's when NJ visits on leave: VB 146-7
otherwise mentioned: LM 77-8
Budd, Colonel
father of Margaret: BM 23
described: BM 117; MP 226
family:
father of Margaret: BM 117
related by marriage to Lady Frederica: LM 33
house in Sussex Square: BM 23
position at Court:
holder of minor appointment: BM 117; LM 9
at Victory Day Service: MP 226
at Mrs Andriadis's party:
goes on to after Huntercombes' dance: BM 117
with Sillery at:
contrast with: BM 117
conversation with: BM 117-20, 129
introduces to Prince Theodoric: BM 120
and other characters:
Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth: BM 118-20, 122
General Conyers: LM 9
Barbara Goring and Eleanor Walpole-Wilson: BM 23
Budd, Edward
younger son of Lady Frederica: VB 147
reason for mother's move to country cottage: LM 95; KO 206; VB 143
aged about 12 at outbreak of war: VB 147
at Lady Frederica's when NJ visits on leave: VB 146-7
otherwise mentioned: LM 77-8
Budd, Lady Frederica
sister-in-law of NJ: LM 33
episodes involving:
at Mrs Conyers': LM 77-91, 118, 124
at Eleanor and Norah's: LM 91-99, 118
at NJ and Isobel's: CCR 213-219
NJ's leave: VB 117, 142-3, 144-52, 166-71, 175-6; SA 106-7, 123, 145; HSH 186-7
Erridge's funeral: BDFR 44, 68-70, 79, 86, 88-9, 93-4, 97-8
Clare and Sebastian's wedding: HSH 175-7, 215
described: LM 77; VB 144
and the Court:
position as Extra Woman of the Bedchamber: LM 33-4, 77-9; CCR 214; VB 157
distress caused by Abdication crisis: CCR 133, 150
character:
severe self-discipline and formality:
concomitant of job: LM 33-4, 77; CCR 213-4; VB 157
affects all opinions and relationships: LM 78, 86, 88-90; CCR 61, 191, 213-4; VB 144-5, 149, 157; BDFR 68-70, 94; TK 7; HSH 176
love of organising and tidying up: BDFR 68-9, 75-6, 98
distrust of "artiness": CCR 214-5
curiosity:
Mildred and Widmerpool: LM 83-6
Norah and Eleanor: LM 91
occasional unbending:
fascinated by Mildred in youth: LM 84-5
rendered vulnerable by car problem: LM 88
tells stories of Lord Vowchurch: LM 89-90
with Norah: LM 92
over story of St John Clarke's will: CCR 213-4, 218
over engagement to Dicky: VB 144-50, 152
late-found interest in cooking: VB 154
fitted by country vicarage: VB 143-4
and the Tolland family:
position in:
eldest of the girls: LM 77; CCR 213; KO 206; HSH 175
named after the Empress Frederick: LM 210
the "ordinary" sister: LM 33
moral and social custodian: LM 91; KO 91; VB 145-52, 166, 168-75, 178
Lady Katherine:
source of story of name: LM 210
finds too eccentric for comfort: CCR 61
Uncle Alfred:
mutual sympathy with: LM 33, 77, 81, 90; BDFR 68
Awareness of foibles of: LM 79, 81, 90
and marriage to Dicky: BDFR 70-1
Erridge:
next in age to: LM 82; BDFR 69
similarity to:
in looks: LM 117, 136
in character: BDFR 68-9
ambivalent attitude to:
understanding of as opposites: LM 81-2; CCR 191; BDFR 69
concerned for over:
disregard of business: LM 95; CCR 219; KO 206
general behaviour: VB 175
defence of over:
the window: BDFR 94-5
the St John Clarke legacy: CCR 217-9
dislike of affair with Mona: CCR 67
organises nursing home for: CCR 191
co-executor of will of: BDFR 44, 67-9, 82, 88, 183
other siblings:
Blanche:
family resemblance to: LM 77
as sister: BDFR 68
as housekeeper at Thrubworth: BDFR 94-5
George:
similarity to:
in character: LM 34
in views on:
Erridge: CCR 67
Lady Katherine: CCR 61
intended co-executor of Erridge's will: BDFR 44
and the window: BDFR 95
Hugo:
as co-executor of Erridge's will: BDFR 44, 67, 183
irritated by flippancy of: BDFR 94
understood by: BDFR 95
Isobel:
tolerable relationship with: KO 206
visits to tell of Erridge's legacy: CCR 213-9
takes as lodger during pregnancy: KO 206, 215, 225, 240; VB 20, 117, 143, 145, 152-6, 175-6, 178; SA 106
Norah:
conflict with:
temperamentally: LM 91, 93-4; CCR 213; KO 206; BDFR 94-5
over specific matters:
Eleanor: LM 86
Lady Katherine: CCR 61
Thrubworth:
visits to: LM 95-6, 99
window: BDFR 94-5
visits with NJ: LM 91-99
and Pamela: BDFR 70
at the Cutts wedding with: HSH 215
Priscilla:
family resemblance to: LM 77
reaction to news of engagement of: CCR 216-7
pleased by success of marriage of: KO 91
source of rumour re Jack Udney: VB 144-5
gives lodging to during war: VB 145, 147, 166-7; SA 106-7, 123, 145
suspects of dalliance with Odo: VB 167
Robert:
friendly relationship with: CCR 213, 216-9
and the Abdication crisis: CCR 133, 150
lodges on embarkation leave: VB 145-7, 155, 166-171, 175
Susan: LM 136
Thrubworth:
desire to keep in touch with:
wish to visit with children: LM 95, 99
move to old vicarage near: KO 206; VB 159, 168, 173
hope for restoration of fortunes of: CCR 219
husbands:
1) Robin Budd:
widow of: LM 33-4; CCR 214; KO 206; VB 144, 153
several children:
reason for move to country cottage: LM 95; KO 206; VB 143
Christopher and Edward: VB 143, 146-7
otherwise mentioned: LM 77-8; TK 6
2) Dicky Umfraville:
meets: VB 153
engagement to: VB 150, 157, 164, 166; HSH 185
married to: BDFR 44-5, 69-71, 98; TK 6-7; HSH 175-7, 185-6
love for:
behaviour affected by: VB 144-50, 152; BDFR 70
obviously mad about: VB 152
continues into old age: TK 7 ; HSH 176-7
and NJ:
distrust of: LM 91
approval of resulting from:
helping with car: LM 88-9
understanding abstruse society references: LM 90
alliance with: LM 91, 99
crosses mind of as possible wife for General Conyers: KO 214-5
and thoughts of what it means to grow old: TK 7
and other characters:
the Alfords: BDFR 68; HSH 215
Lady Akworth: HSH 177
Mrs Akworth: HSH 177
Audrey: VB 154-5
Mildred Blaides: LM 84-7
Margaret Budd: LM 33
General Conyers:
knows at court: LM 77-8
rivalry with: LM 78-9, 81-2; KO 214-5
Mrs Conyers: LM 34, 77-88
Howard Craggs: BDFR 82
Roddy Cutts: BDFR 86, 183
Pamela Flitton: BDFR 68-70, 86, 92-4
Buster Foxe: VB 169-70, 175
the Gorings: LM 86-7
Heather Hopkins: LM 97-9
Lady Molly:
mocked by for social rigidity: LM 33, 78-81; VB 145; BDFR 70
distaste for laxity of: LM 78-81
Ted Jeavons: KO 240; BDFR 97-8
Chips Lovell: LM 80, 91; CCR 213-4, 216-7; KO 91
Moreland: CCR 216-7
JG Quiggin: BDFR 82
Siegfried: BDFR 86
Odo Stevens: VB 143-4, 152, 167, 175, 178; SA 106
Jack Udney: VB 144-5
Eleanor Walpole-Wilson: LM 86, 92
Widmerpool:
and Mildred: LM 84-7
and Erridge's will: BDFR 67-9, 88-9, 183
and Pamela's disruption of the funeral: BDFR 68-70, 79, 86
Flavia Wisebite:
as youthful contemporaries: VB 145-6; HSH 186
responsibility of for introduction to Dicky: VB 153
facilitates relationship of with Robert: VB 145-7, 155, 166, 175
Budd, Margaret
a society beauty: BM 38
described as the perfect English beauty: BM 38-9, 47; AW 40-1; LM 33; MP 249
family:
daughter of Colonel Budd: BM 117
cousin of the banana thrower: BM 39-40
relationship by marriage to Lady Frederica: LM 33
social life:
NJ sees at:
the Walpole-Wilsons' dinner in Eaton Square: BM 38-47, 60
the Huntercombes' ball: BM 63
the Ritz: AW 40-1
ever-present at dances: BM 39
marriages:
first:
Scots whisky distiller older than herself: BM 40-1; MP 250
two equally doll-like children: AW 40
second to Horaczko: MP 250
opinions of expressed by:
Archie Gilbert "what a beauty": MP 249
Barbara Goring a "guardee's girl": BM 39-40
NJ a "female ... Archie Gilbert": BM 39
Budd, Robin
first husband of Lady Frederica: LM 33
described as similar to Dicky Umfraville: VB 153
close relation of Margaret: LM 33
and Lady Frederica:
husband of: LM 33, 79; VB 144, 153
children: LM 77-8, 95; VB 143, 146-7
death in hunting accident: LM 33-4; VB 144
Burdens, the
the Templers' servants: AW 147
Mr Burden's:
competence as chauffeur and mechanic: AW 46
failure as valet: AW 46
Mrs Burden:
as cook: AW 46
and Mona's elopement:
rung by Jean for news of: AW 147
shows suspicion about: AW 147
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