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Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham,
living at Ickenham Hall, Bishop's Ickenham, Hants.
Valerie and Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton's Uncle Fred in
Uncle Fred Flits By,
Uncle Fred in the Springtime,
Uncle Dynamite,
Cocktail Time, and
Service With a Smile.
Known in school as Barmy; for years a younger son, spent twenty of those years
in the U.S.: punched cows in Arizona, jerked soda, did a bit
of newspaper work, prospected in the Mojave Desert. A sort
of elderly Psmith, now sixty if a day and married to an
American, Jane, who threatens to skin him with a blunt knife
if he strays from Ickenham Hall-particularly to London,
which he does whenever her back is turned, and steps high,
wide and handsome, acting a youngish 22 (much to Pongo's
dismay). By living in the country he generates, as it were, a
store of loopiness which expends itself with frightful violence
on his rare visits to the center of things. In the late afternoon
of his life he retains, together with a juvenile waistline,
the bright enthusiasm and fresh, unspoiled outlook of a
slightly inebriated undergraduate. A tall, slim, distinguished-looking
man with a jaunty moustache and an alert and
enterprising eye. Loopy to the tonsils, a longtime friend of
Galahad Threepwood (they used to be thrown out of
nightclubs together). Inventor of the Ickenham System for
speeding the course of true love. Fond of impersonations,
which he undertakes whenever his sporting impulse (e.g. in
Uncle Fred Flits By) or the plight of young lovers seems to require it-
"Help is a thing I am always glad to be of."
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