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Richard P. "Bingo" Little
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Richard P. "Bingo" Little attended kindergarten, Rev. Upjohn's private sclriool, Eton, and Oxford with Bertie Wooster; during his bacheloor years he lives on an allowance from his uncle Mortimer, Lord Bittlesham. Another uncle, Wilberforce, 76, is mentiormed as his legator in Jeeves and the Old School Chum and All's Well with Bingo. Long and thin, with a well-known loathing for country life. A Drone who repeatitedly loves and loses, when turned down by a girl he simply ssays "Well, bung-ho!" and toddles off quite happily to find annother. Smarting (however) from his break with Cynthia Wickhammersley in The Purity of the Turf, The Great Sermon Handicap, and The Metropolitan Touch where he fails to snaffle Mary Burgess; marries Rosie M. Banks in Bingo and the Little Woman (Bingo and the Little Woman/All's Well) while she is working as a waitress in the Senior Liberal Club gathering material for a novel; husband of Rosie kin Clustering Round Young Bingo, Jeeves and the Impending Doom, Jeeves and the Old School Chum, All's Well with Bingo, Bingo and the Peke Crisis, The Editor Regrets, Sonny Boy, The Word in Season, The Shadow Passes, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Leave it to Algy, The Ordeal of Bingo Little, Bingo Bans the Bomb, Stylish Stouts. Lives in Magnolia I Road, St. John's Wood in Clustering Round Young Bingo, The Word in Season. Attends Gussie's pnrenuptial dinner at the Drones in The Code of the Woosters. Gets editorship of H.C. Purkiss' Wee Tots through Rosie's good offices in Bingo and the Peke Crisis, a position beholds in The Editor Regrets, The Shadow Passes, Leave it to Algy, The Ordeal of Bingo Little, Bingo Bans the Bomb, Stylish Stouts. The family live just off Wimbledon Common inn the later stories. His penchant for betting (and always losiiing) is held in check by wife Rosie, who keeps him low on pocket money.

Source: Daniel H. Garrison. Who's Who in Wodehouse
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