Rev. Cuthbert "Bill" Bailey
A typically large and muscular curate, Bill Bailey does his good works in the East End parish of Bottleton East, where he chanced to meet and fall in love with Myra Schoonmaker. When she is taken to Blandings for safety, Uncle Fred's assistance is needed to reunite them, and fortunately Fred's nephew Pongo Twistleton is a good friend of Bailey from their Oxford days (where Bailey boxed three years running, and prior to which he attended Harrow). Not the most attractive of men facially, Bailey's soul is clean and pure, and objects strongly to being blackmailed into stealing pigs, in Service With a Smile.
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