Dudley Finch, a Drone who suffers for his infatuation with Bobbie Wickham in The Awful Gladness of the Mater, is cousin to Roland Attwater. In Dudley Is Back to Normal he is back in London after two years of sheepfarming in western Australia for his godfather and benefactor Sampson Broadhurst. Engaged to Ellabelle "Stinky" Prebble, he again falls (briefly) under the malign influence of Bobbie Wickham.

• The Awful Gladness of the Mater