Mrs. Scholfield - Delia, Lady Glossop

Delia, Lady Glossop

Delia, Lady Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the wife of well known nerve specialist Sir Roderick Glossop, mother to Oswald and Honoria Glossop, and an acquaintance of Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha. She features in many of the early Jeeves books, but, we are told by Bertie, dies just before the events of Thank You, Jeeves (1934), whereupon her husband endeavours to remarry Chuffy's Aunt Myrtle, the Dowager Lady Chuffnell.

Lady Glossop first meets Bertie when he becomes matrimonially bound to her daughter Honoria, an arrangement worked by her and Aunt Agatha. Bertie is quite horrified by the prospect of marrying into the Glossop family, and bequeaths that Jeeves sort the whole affair out so that a satisfactory conclusion may be reached, for him. Jeeves stumbles upon the information that both Glossops have a severe horror of moggies, and so at dinner that evening at Bertie's flat, releases several cats. The Glossops leave with the distinct impression that Bertie is to be avoided.

Lady Glossop is more sympathetic towards Bertie's woolly-headedness that her husband, and is in the future always willing to give Bertie a second chance. Consequently, Bertie feels more comfortable with her than Sir Roderick.