Percival or Percy Craye, Lord Worplesdon, father of Lady
Florence Craye, Percy Craye, and Edwin. In Disentangling Old Percy, already
some years a widower, he lives in self-imposed exile, having
fled his family to live on the Continent. A rather large man
with elephantiasis of the temper, he came down to breakfast
one morning, lifted the first cover he saw, said "Eggs! Eggs!
Eggs! Damn all eggs!" in an overwrought sort of voice, and
instantly legged it for France. Marries Dorothea Darrell in
Disentangling Old Percy. A former employer of Jeeves. When Bertie was
fifteen Lord W. found him smoking one of his special cigars
in the stable yard and chased him a mile across difficult
country with a riding crop. Was at Oxford with Bertie's
Uncle Willoughby, thrown out of a music hall with him in
1887. Second husband of Agatha Wooster in
Joy in the Morning,
The Mating Season,
and Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit;
master of Bumpleigh Hall, Steeple Bumpleigh,
Hampshire. A shipping magnate, owner of the Pink Funnel
Line.
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