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  Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham is a fictional character created by British comic writer P.
Lord Emsworth, the benevolent though somewhat absent-minded patriarch of the large Threepwood family, lives at Blandings Castle, where he longs for peace and quiet, but must face the unpleasant reality of his domineering sisters and familial duties.
Lord Emsworth's favorite pastime is his garden, and he is always a competitor and often a winner in Shropshire's Agriculture Show.
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 Something Fresh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the meantime, we find out that Frederick Threepwood, the younger son of the 9th Earl of Emsworth is going to get married with Aline Peters, the daughter of an American millionaire.
Clarence Threepwood, the 9th Earl of Emsworth meets, J. Preston Peters, the bride's father, a passionate collectionist of Egyptian scarabs, showing him the most precious piece of his collection: a 4th dynasty Keops.
Aline Peters meets in a restaurant with George Emerson, a Hong Kong policeman and old friend of her that wishes to marry her and tells her that he was also invited by Freddie to come to Blandings Castle.
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 Lord Emsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham, commonly referred to as Lord Emsworth, is a fictional character created by British comic writer P.
The aged and absent-minded Lord Emsworth is the resident of Blandings Castle, which is also occupied or visited by his brother, the Hon.
During the Blandings Castle series, Lord Emsworth is a competitor (and winner) in Shropshire's Agriculture Show.
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 Lord Emsworth at AllExperts
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham is a fictional character in the Blandings stories by P.
Lord Emsworth is the benevolent, somewhat absent-minded patriarch of the large Threepwood family, who longs for nothing more than to potter peacefully in the idyllic gardens of Blandings Castle, but must frequently face the unpleasant reality of his domineering sisters and familial duties.
Emsworth's favorite pastime is his garden, and he spends many a happy hour pottering about it, arguing with his gardeners, especially Angus McAllister, whose desire to gravel the famous Yew Alley is particularly upsetting to his Lordship, and with his pig-keepers, who include Wellbeloved, Pirbright and the Amazonian Monica Simmons.
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 Lord Emsworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham, commonly referred to as Lord Emsworth, is a fictional character created by British comic writer P.
The aged and absent-minded Lord Emsworth is the resident of Blandings Castle, which is also occupied or visited by his brother, the Hon.
During the Blandings Castle series, Lord Emsworth is a competitor (and winner) in Shropshire's Agriculture Show.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/lo/lord_emsworth.html   (157 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Blandings Saga by PG Wodehouse
Emsworth has two sons: Freddie, the trouble-making younger brother, and George, aka Lord Bosham, who is the eldest and therefore heir to the Earldom.
The true joy of Lord Emsworth's life is his prize-winning Berkshire pig, the Empress of Blandings.
Though Lord Emsworth is the official authority at Blandings Castle, much of the time it is in fact overseen by his sisters, mainly Lady Constance, who often takes charge of things.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A12737702   (1151 words)

  
 Bland Diet -- Recommendations and Resources
In the stories and novels of P. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle is the seat of Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth as well as the name given to the series of books which take place at the castle and its immediate environs.
Lord Emsworth's nine sisters, his brother Galahad, his sons Freddie and Thomas, and his numerous nieces, nephews, and in-laws inhabit the castle from time to time, as does his prize sow, the Empress of Blandings.
For the Threepwood family, relatives, and their friends, the castle is forever available for indefinite residence, and is occasionally used as a temporary prison – known as "Devil's Island" or "The Bastille" – for love-struck young men and ladies to calm down.
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 Guybrush Threepwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
"Threepwood" was the name of Dave Grossman's RPG character and was picked through voting.
Many people have cited this instance as a contradiction as some believe, based on dialogue with the Voodoo Lady early on in the game, where she says that she's lived on three separate islands for the past six years, indicating that there was a five year gap between MI2 and CMI.
To add to the humor, when the bazooka is used, instead of a rocket, a rubber chicken is slowly launched and tropical steel drum music plays in the background until the chicken explodes.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Summer Lightning: Books: P.G. Wodehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth, is preoccupied with his prizewinning pig, the Empress of Blandings, and the upcoming Agricultural show, while the news that his brother, Galahad Threepwood is writing his memoirs, has many aging aristrocrats worried.
Clarence, the ninth Earl of Emsworth, is at home in his castle in Shropshire where he dotes on his famous prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings.
Clarence's new secretary, Hugo Carmody, is secretly and unsuitably in love with Millicent Threepwood, niece to Clarence, Connie and Gally, and Millicent is in love with him.
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 Something Fresh Information
Meanwhile, we find out that Freddie Threepwood, the younger son of the 9th Earl of Emsworth, is engaged to be married to Aline Peters, the daughter of American millionaire J.
Clarence Threepwood, the elderly Earl of Emsworth, calls on J. Preston Peters, Aline's father, a passionate collector of Egyptian scarabs.
After their arrival, Ashe meets Baxter, the Earl's efficient and suspicious secretary, on the way to Mr Peters' room, addressing him in a highly un-valet-like manner.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Guybrush Threepwood
"Threepwood" was the name of Dave Grossman's RPG character and was picked through voting.
Many people have cited this instance as a contradiction as some believe, based on dialogue with the Voodoo Lady earlier in the game, where she says that she has lived on three separate islands for the past six years, indicating that there was a five year gap between MI2 and CM.
To add to the humor, when the bazooka is used, instead of a rocket, a rubber chicken is slowly launched and tropical steel drum music plays in the background until the chicken explodes.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Guybrush_Threepwood   (2586 words)

  
 Books - Something Fresh
In the meantime, we find out that Frederick Threepwood, the younger son of the 9th Earl of Emsworth, is going to get married to Aline Peters, the daughter of an American millionaire.
Freddie goes to a certain R. Jones and pays him 500 pounds to "recover" some letters he sent in the past to a certain girl, feeling they might be dangerous in her hands and embarrass him.
Clarence Threepwood, the elderly 9th Earl of Emsworth, meets J. Preston Peters, the bride's father, a passionate collector of Egyptian scarabs, showing him the most precious piece of his collection: a 4th dynasty Cheops.
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 Fresh Cut
This way, Ashe meets her, finds that she's working for the same publishing house and is encouraged to take any opportunity that might arise from the ads in the newspaper.
Clarence Threepwood, the 9th Earl of Emsworth meets J. Preston Peters, the bride's father, a passionate collectionist of Egyptian scarabs, showing him the most precious piece of his collection: a 4th dynasty Keops.
Aline Peters meets in a restaurant with George Emerson, a Hong Kong policeman and old friend of her that wishes to marry her and tells her that he was also invited by Freddie to come to Blandings Castle.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lord Emsworth appears to take his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in his youth; he first went there in 1903 to visit his new friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called "Threepwood Cottage".
Once the pig fever has taken him, he is mostly to be found draped bonelessly over the pig pen, looking like an old sock.
Ralph Richardson played him in adaptations of six Blandings shorts, made by the BBC and broadcast in 1967 (sadly only the first, adapted from the short "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend", still remains in the BBC archives).
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 Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth : search word
Lord Emsworth has nine sisters, two brothers, two sons, at least one daughter, and many in-laws, all listed with the book in which they first appear.
Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".
For the requirement of security simple promise of the other side, which he would be compelled to the very object of requiring it would be.
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 Informat.io on List Of P G Wodehouse Characters
George Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's eldest son and heir to the earldom
Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".
The Bishop of Godalming, a relative of the Threepwoods
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 P.G.Wodehouse - Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The head of the family is Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth.
Lord Emsworth is a dreamy character who would like nothing better to lead an undisturbed life pottering around in old clothes, arranging his gardens to his satisfaction, growing prize pumpkins, and watching his pig Empress of Blandings (three times winner of the silver medal for pigs at the Shropshire show) getting steadily fatter and fatter.
Galahad Threepwood (his brother) and Beach (his butler) that Clarence survives the goings on at the castle - which attracts impostors like catnip attracts cats.
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 The Ultimate Monkey Island Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The games follows the misadventures of the hapless aspiring pirate Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, while fighting off the evil ghost pirate LeChuck and winning the heart of governor Elaine Marley.
A credible theory has been put forth that the bizarre revelation at the end of MI2 is intended to be the true secret of Monkey Island, and the fact that it was debunked in MI3 is merely due to a retcon by the new development team after the departure of Ron Gilbert.
Wodehouse character Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth.
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 WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth has good health, a large income and a first-class ancestral home.
But for Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, there is always something to disturb this tranquil scene.
A ′Crooning Tenor′ is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham′s fiancee, Lord Emsworth is trying to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon, and the Hon.
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 BBC - Comedy Guide - Blandings Castle
True to form for Wodehouse, the most fraught and frightful situations are retrieved at the eleventh hour by a stroke of whimsical genius on the part of the Earl or by the intervention of his ever-faithful butler, Beach.
In what was described as a 'short play for television', Emsworth had made an earlier BBC appearance in Lord Emsworth And The Little Friend, adapted by C E Webber and produced by Rex Tucker for the strand Children's Television, screened on 20 March 1956.
Ralph Richardson - Clarence, 9th Earl Of Emsworth
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 Lord Emsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Westbrook worked at a school in the town, and Wodehouse also mentions it in his 1909 novel Mike, as the place where Mike was at school prior to Wrykyn.
Horace Hodges played Lord Emsworth in a 1933 silent film adaptation of Summer Lightning
A Wodehouse biography, with details of his time at the real Emsworth
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 Clarence Loves Nothing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
William Rhoden, of course.or Imus' betrayal of one-time regular guest Clarence.
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 Something Fresh
Emsworth is a small village on the Hampshire side of the border with Sussex, on the south coast of England, about halfway between Chichester and Portsmouth.
Westbrook was a teacher at Emsworth House, a small private school, and Wodehouse lived at the school for some time, before renting 'Threepwood'.
In England, the wife of an earl is a countess, not—as one might expect—an earless.
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 Roses Emsworth at Local.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham is a fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. Wodehouse.
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 The Works of Wodehouse - Something Fresh
Hon Frederick (Freddie) Threepwood — younger son of the 9th Earl of Emsworth; engaged to Aline Peters.
Bishop of Godalming — a house guest at Blandings; though it is implied that he is a member of the family, the exact relationship between him and Lord Emsworth is left undefined.
Mrs Jack Hale — "of the collateral branch of the family"; like the Bishop, the relationship between her and the Threepwoods is unclear.
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 Pigs Have Wings
Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, has good health, a large income and a first-class ancestral home with gravel soil and rolling parkland.
But these blessings count for nothing in the presence of a certain Sir Gregory Parsloe: Lord Emsworth in convinced he has evil designs on his pre-eminent pig, Empress of Blandings.
It is fortunate for Lord Emsworth that there is at least one member of the family upon whom he can rely.
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 P. G. Wodehouse - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The Blandings books are about the upper-class inhabitants of the fictional Blandings Castle, including the eccentric Lord Emsworth, obsessed by his prize-winning pig, the "Empress of Blandings".
The wealthy, foppish Bertie Wooster narrates a number of stories and novels which recount the improbable and unfortunate situations in which he and his friends find themselves, and the manner in which his ingenious valet Jeeves is always able to solve them.
Some of the Psmith stories overlap with the Blandings stories in that Psmith works for Lord Emsworth, lives at Blandings, and becomes a friend of Freddie Threepwood.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of P. G. Wodehouse characters
George Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's eldest son and heir to the earldom
The Bishop of Godalming, a relative of the Threepwoods
Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer, and briefly Emsworth's secretary
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 AbeBooks: Search Results - ISBN 0141181958
(272 pages) Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth, is preoccupied with his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings, and the upcoming agricultural show, while the news that his brother, Galahad Threepwood, is writing his memoirs, has many ageing aristocrats worried.
Engaged to delightful chorus girl Sue Brown, Ronnie must persuade his uncle (and trustee) Lord Emsworth to hand over a large chunk of capital before they can marry.
Meanwhile waspish Lady Constance Keeble is marshalling her forces to stop her brother Balahad causing panic among the aristocracy by publishing the tale of his misspent youth.Between them, they stir up mischief and mayhem involving the sensational theft of a prize-winning pig, a conscience-stricken butler and a scheming sleuth, and on-again, off-again love affairs.
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