Malvern House Preparatory School
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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. Wodehouse
attended the school for two years from 1891 and later gave its name to the fictional school (relocated to the equally fictional Bramley-on-Sea) where Bertie Wooster
, Augustus (Gussie) Fink-Nottle
, and Reginald "Kipper" Herring studied in their earlier years, under the headmaster the Rev Aubrey Upjohn
.
Bertie Wooster and Kipper Herring, while having breakfast at the Wooster residence in the novel Jeeves in the Offing
spoke unfavourably of the food served there, specifically, the sausages on Sunday and the boiled mutton with caper sauce. The sausages were further expanded upon when Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham
inserted a caustic remark that Kipper had mentioned to her, namely that the sausages were made, "not from content pigs but pigs that had expired, regretted by all, of glanders, the botts and tuberculosis" into the scathing review Kipper wrote of Upjohn's reminiscences of life in Malvern House and resulted in the subsequent suit of Kipper for libel by Upjohn.
Preparatory school (UK)
In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for entry into fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are known as public schools...
which specialised in preparing boys for entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth
Dartmouth, Devon
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes...
. The 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...
attended the school for two years from 1891 and later gave its name to the fictional school (relocated to the equally fictional Bramley-on-Sea) where 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...
, Augustus (Gussie) Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a possible member of the Drones Club...
, and Reginald "Kipper" Herring studied in their earlier years, under the headmaster the Rev Aubrey Upjohn
Aubrey Upjohn
The Reverend Aubrey Upjohn is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the Headmaster at Malvern House Preparatory School during Bertie Wooster's tenure there.-Overview:...
.
Bertie Wooster and Kipper Herring, while having breakfast at the Wooster residence in the novel 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....
spoke unfavourably of the food served there, specifically, the sausages on Sunday and the boiled mutton with caper sauce. The sausages were further expanded upon when Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham
Bobbie Wickham
Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Mr Mulliner stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a troublesome redheaded girl, enamoured of practical jokes which often result in general pandemonium.-Overview:...
inserted a caustic remark that Kipper had mentioned to her, namely that the sausages were made, "not from content pigs but pigs that had expired, regretted by all, of glanders, the botts and tuberculosis" into the scathing review Kipper wrote of Upjohn's reminiscences of life in Malvern House and resulted in the subsequent suit of Kipper for libel by Upjohn.