Minor characters in the Ukridge stories

The following is an incomplete list of the fictional characters featured in the Ukridge stories of P. G. Wodehouse.

The hired man at Ukridge's chicken farm in Love Among the Chickens; a hardy and resourceful yokel, he works hard on the farm and does sterling work in defending it from Ukridge's creditors. His wife is a fine cook, even when limited to eggs and chicken. He has a large dog named Bob.

A former trimmer on the tramp steamer Hyacinth, on which Ukridge once travelled, Billson is an enormous man with a broken nose, strong jaw, red hair and muscles like hawsers, famed for his ability to clean up against half a dozen able-bodied seamen in Marseilles bars. Falling in love with Flossie, he decides to find work on land, and for a while Ukridge becomes his boxing manager, but his sentimental nature often scuppers his career. At one point he is swayed by evangelists, becoming fiercely opposed to alcohol and violence, but this soon subsides. We learn that he later settles down with Flossie, becoming a seller of jellied eels.

Billson appears in several of the Ukridge shorts.

A former butler to the Earl of Oxted, turned proprietor of furnished apartments in south-west London, wherein reside the likes of Jimmy Corcoran, Bowles is a portly man with a bald head, greenish eyes and an aura of dignified superiority. Generally disdainful of the somewhat Bohemian Corcoran, Bowles is mystifyingly in favour of Ukridge, and will invariably let him into his friend's apartment to borrow clothes, whisky, breakfast, or just to let boxers such as Wilberforce "Battling" Billson snooze on the couch.

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