Bill Oakshott, master of Ashenden Manor, Ashenden Oakshott, Hants. Boyhood friend of Pongo Twistleton and neighbor of Pongo's Uncle Fred, the Earl of Ickenham; nephew of Sir Aylmer Bostock and in love with his daughter Hermione in Uncle Dynamite. A large youth of open, ingenuous and sunburned countenance, a human tomato.

• Uncle Dynamite