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Reggie Pepper, a Bertie Wooster prototype in Absent Treatment, Helping Freddie, Rallying Round Old George, Disentangling Old Percy, Doing Clarence A Bit of Good, Concealed Art, and The Test Case, is nephew of the late Edward Pepper of Pepper, Wells, & Co., the colliery people. Heir through his uncle to a sizable chunk of bullion, he has never worked. Was at Oxford with Freddie Meadowes and Bill Schoolbred. Helps Bobbie Cardew remember his wife's birthday in Absent Treatment. Helps Freddie Meadowes win back the affections of Angela West in Helping Freddie. His valet in Rallying Round Old George, where he rallies round old George Lattaker, is Harold Voules. In Concealed Art, where he helps Archie Ferguson conceal his cartoonist's art from Eunice Nugent, his man is named Wilberforce. A despised friend of Florence in Disentangling Old Percy, he helps disentangle her brother Percy from an engagement to the unsuitable Dorothea Darrell, with the result that Dorothea becomes Florence's stepmother. Once engaged to Elizabeth Schoolbred, to oblige whom he destroys the wrong Venus, i.e. Clarence Yeardsley's "Jocund Spring," in Doing Clarence A Bit of Good (cf. Bertie Wooster in Jeeves Makes an Omelet). Gets the mitten from Ann Selby in The Test Case, the last of the seven Reggie Pepper stories, where he helps save Harold Bodkin's marriage.

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