Augustus Whiffle
The author of Lord Emsworth's favourite book, The Care of the Pig. The writings of Mr. Whiffle (also known as Whipple) exert a soothing influence on his Lordship in times of stress, especially in "The Crime Wave at Blandings", during the momentous events of which the Earl frequently requires Whiffle's soothing balm on his stretched nerves.
In Galahad at Blandings (in which the name is Whipple once more), we learn that the great pig-expert is known to Gally, who spoke to him while writing his memoirs to get details of Mr Whipple's grandfather, who grew a second set of teeth at the age of eighty, and used them to crack Brazil nuts (he died at the age of eighty-two, from a surfeit of Brazil nuts). An elderly man with a thin, reedy voice, Mr Whipple is a member of the Athenaeum club (where he once met Colonel Egbert Wedge), and is so impressed by what he hears of the Empress of Blandings that he hopes to visit and see the mighty pig; thanks to Gally, however, he is put off and replaced with Sam Bagshott, but causes trouble by installing himself at the Emsworth Arms, in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Empress.
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