The Reverend Aubrey Upjohn is a recurring fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 from the Jeeves

Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...

 and Drones Club

Drones Club

The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a gentlemen's club in London. Many of his Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members....

 stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

, being the Headmaster at Malvern House Preparatory School

Malvern House Preparatory School

Malvern House Preparatory School, at Kearsney, Kent, was a preparatory school which specialised in preparing boys for entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. The comic writer P. G...

 during Bertie Wooster

Bertie Wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of...

's tenure there.

Overview

Aubrey Upjohn was the headmaster of St. Asaph's preparatory school in Bramley-on-Sea, attended by Freddie Widgeon. (in "Bramley Is So Bracing")

Aubrey Upjohn appears the most in one book, Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 4 April 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title How Right You Are, Jeeves, and in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1960 by Herbert Jenkins, London....

. At the time of this story, he has left his post at the school. He becomes the target of a slanderous article by Kipper Herring. He threatens to initiate a litigation, but Jeeves

Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...

, as usual, smooths things out. At one time, he marries Jane Mills, a friend of Aunt Dahlia

Aunt Dahlia

Dahlia Travers is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha...

 who later dies. He is the guardian of her daughter, Phyllis Mills.

Stories

Aubrey Upjohn is featured in:

• "Bramley Is So Bracing" (1939) – Drone Bingo short story, collected in Nothing Serious
  Nothing Serious (short stories)
  Nothing Serious is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 21 July 1950 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 24 May 1951 by Doubleday & Co., New York.-Overview:...
  
   (1950)
• Jeeves in the Offing
  Jeeves in the Offing
  Jeeves in the Offing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 4 April 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title How Right You Are, Jeeves, and in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1960 by Herbert Jenkins, London....
  
   (1960) – Jeeves novel

Aubrey Upjohn is mentioned in:

• The Code of the Woosters
  The Code of the Woosters
  The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 7 October 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York...
  
   (1938) – Jeeves novel
• "The Editor Regrets (1939) – Drone Widgeon short story, collected in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
• The Mating Season (1949) – Jeeves novel

See also

• List of P. G. Wodehouse characters in the Jeeves stories