Bertie Wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster
Bertie Wooster (left) as depicted on the cover of Carry On, Jeeves (First edition)
First appearance	1915, in "Extricating Young Gussie"
Last appearance	2013, in "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells"
Created by	P. G. Wodehouse
Portrayed by	Richard Briers, Ian Carmichael, Hugh Laurie and others
Information
Nickname(s)	Bertie
Aliases	Bertie
Gender	Male
Occupation	Gentleman, Socialite, Idle Rich
Title	Esquire, later inherits the family title of Lord Yaxley
Family	Aunt Dahlia (aunt), Aunt Agatha (aunt), Sister Mrs Scholfield (no first name given)
Spouse(s)	Georgiana Medowes

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligence manages to save Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations.

As the first-person narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, Bertie ranks as one of the most vivid comic creations in popular literature. Bertie's middle name, "Wilberforce", is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name (mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves).

The name 'Wooster' is similar to the pronunciation of the name 'Wodehouse', which pronunciation the author references in a memoir as rhyming with 'good house'.

Bertie Wooster is the central figure in all but one of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories and novels, which were published between 1915 and 1974. The sole exception is the novel Ring for Jeeves (1953) a third-person narration in which he is mentioned but does not appear. All of the other Jeeves novels and short stories are narrated by Bertie, with the exception of the short story "Bertie Changes His Mind" (1922), which is narrated by Jeeves.

Due to the volume of stories and time span over which Wodehouse wrote them, there are a number of inconsistencies and contradictions in the information given about his relatives. "Bertie" and several of his relations appear in the early Wodehouse story Extricating Young Gussie. In that story the family name is Mannering-Phipps, not Wooster, and the story has been excluded from most collections of Jeeves and Wooster material, even though the incidents in Extricating Young Gussie are referenced in later stories.

It is established throughout the series that Bertie is an orphan who inherited a large fortune upon the death of his parents, although the exact details and timing of his parents' deaths are never made clear. In the story "Bertie Changes His Mind" he mentions a sister who has three daughters, referred to by Jeeves as Mrs Scholfield (although in the later novel Thank You, Jeeves he states that he has no sisters during a conversation with Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell). No other siblings are mentioned.