The Hon. Freddie Threepwood, second son of Lord Emsworth,
brother of George, Lord Bosham; heavy and loutish-looking
in Something Fresh but slender in
Full Moon, distinguished by a long and
vacant face. Went to Eton, was expelled for breaking out at
night and roaming the streets of Windsor in a false
moustache; sent down from Oxford for pouring ink from a
second-story window on the Junior Dean of his College.
Failed to pass into the Army after two years at an expensive
London crammer's. Engaged to Aline Peters in Something Fresh.
Proposes to Eve Halliday early and often in Leave It to Psmith; marries
Aggie Donaldson in The Custody of the Pumpkin; has gone to Long Island City to
sell Donaldson's Dog Biscuits for his wife's father, as recalled in
Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best,
Go-Getter,
Uncle Fred in the Springtime,
Service With a Smile, etc.
Eight months married in
Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best, where his wife leaves him for a short time because she
thinks he has been unfaithful. In
Company for Gertrude,
Go-Getter,
Full Moon,
Sticky Wicket at Blandings,
Life with Freddie and
Sunset at Blandings he is temporarily back in England promoting
Donaldson's Dog Joy, and has given up his black-rimmed
monocle because it reminded his colleagues at Donaldson's
of something in a musical comedy. In
Birth of a Salesman he has been with
Donaldson's Inc. for three years and is long since transformed
from the vacant-faced younger son of an English
Lord to a go-getter for Donaldson's Dog Joy, impatient with
his father's boneheaded manner. His collection of mystery
thrillers, bequeathed to Beach when he left for Long Island
City, is said in
Galahad at Blandings to be the finest in Shropshire. A
member of the Drones in
Life with Freddie; has sent friend Howard
Chesney to visit Blandings in
A Pelican at Blandings. Revisits England, and
Blandings Castle, in Sunset at Blandings.
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