Admiral George J. "Fruity" Biffen
An old friend of Galahad Threepwood, Admiral Biffen is a former Pelican. By the time we hear of him, his relations with bookies have become so strained that he rarely leaves home without a false beard; in Full Moon, he returns a particularly bushy one he has borrowed from Galahad, just in time for it to come in useful to Bill Lister (it made Biffen look like an Assyrian monarch, but renders Lister somewhat frightening). He rented a small cottage for a time, just up the road from Blandings, shortly prior to the events of Pigs Have Wings, but had to return to Piccadilly, London, on finding the country far too noisy.
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