John Halliday
John Stiffy Halliday is a barrister with a part-interest in a small art gallery, who pays a brief visit to Blandings in A Pelican at Blandings. He arrives in the persona of a psychiatrist, junior partner to Sir Roderick Glossop, ostensibly hired to analyse Lord Emsworth but in reality hoping to press his suit with Linda Gilpin.
A neat, trim, fit, athletic-looking chap, his golf handicap is 6 and he plays excellent squash racquets. His London address is in Halsey Court, W1, where his landlady is known to all as "Ma" Balsam. He got his middle name from the nickname given to his father, and was at Oxford with Linda's brother Ricky. Gally was instrumental in smuggling his godson into the castle, having been called on for help after an estrangement between the man and his beloved Linda, result of Halliday's zealous devotion to his duty as a lawyer despite his fiancee being a witness.
He is well known by some criminal types, such as Howard Chesney, who pushes him down the Blandings stairs in hopes of avoiding recognition; the bump on the head thus received is instrumental in restoring Johnny to Linda's favours.
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