20 Facts About Roderick Glossop

Sir Roderick Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the comic novels and short stories of P G Wodehouse.

The character of Sir Roderick Glossop was inspired by Dr Henry Crawford MacBryan, who operated a psychiatric nursing home in the hamlet of Ditteridge, in the parish of Box, Wiltshire, near Cheney House where the young Wodehouse spent some of his childhood with his aunts.

Sir Roderick Glossop is the father of Honoria Glossop and Oswald Glossop.

Roderick Glossop is first married to Lady Glossop, a friend of Bertie's Aunt Agatha, and later to Lady Chuffnell, aunt of "Chuffy", Lord Chuffnell.

Roderick Glossop went to school with Lord Emsworth, who states that Glossop was an unpleasant boy who had a nasty and superior manner.

Roderick Glossop's residences are 6b Harley Street and Ditteredge Hall, Hampshire.

Roderick Glossop is formally called a nerve specialist or a brain specialist, though Bertie thinks of him as a "high-priced loony-doctor".

Roderick Glossop is a well-known psychiatrist, and, according to Bertie, "practically every posh family in the country has called him in at one time or another".

Roderick Glossop is described as serious-minded by Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha, who tells Bertie that Sir Roderick is President of the West London branch of the anti-gambling league, drinks no wine, disapproves of smoking, and, due to an impaired digestion, can only eat simple food.

When Bertie sees Glossop in "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch", he describes Glossop as an "extraordinarily formidable old bird," stating:.

Roderick Glossop had a pair of shaggy eyebrows which gave his eyes a piercing look which was not at all the sort of thing a fellow wanted to encounter on an empty stomach.

Roderick Glossop was fairly tall and fairly broad, and he had the most enormous head, with practically no hair on it, which made it seem bigger and much more like the dome of St Paul's.

In that story, Roderick Glossop has lunch with Bertie to judge whether or not Bertie is mentally sound and fit to marry Honoria.

Roderick Glossop forbids the marriage between Bertie's friend Charles "Biffy" Biffen and his daughter Honoria in "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", much to Biffy's relief.

Roderick Glossop is mentioned in the last Jeeves short story, "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird".

Outside the Jeeves canon, Roderick Glossop appears in the Blandings Castle and Uncle Fred novel, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, in which he is impersonated by Pongo Twistleton's Uncle Fred at Blandings Castle.

Inconsistencies in the relationship between Bertie and Roderick Glossop arise in the later novel Jeeves in the Offing, as they do not seem to be on terms of friendship in the beginning of the story.

When Bertie learns his Aunt Dahlia is going to have lunch with Roderick Glossop, Bertie states that Roderick Glossop "was a man I would not have cared to lunch with myself".

Sir Roderick Glossop has not yet married Lady Chuffnell in this story.

Roderick Glossop describes "Roddy" as one of his leading pals.