List of Minor Blandings Characters - Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham

Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham

Beefy Bingham is a big, strapping fellow, who became a friend of Freddie Threepwood in university days at Oxford, where he took part in rowing (for which he nearly got his blue) and swimming (for which he did). A rather clumsy, bumbling chap with a big red face, who regularly finds himself spilling drinks or tangling himself up in small tables covered in china. He has a dog of uncertain parentage, named Bottles.

After university he became a curate, and fell in love with Gertrude Alcester. He lacks an income to support her until, in "Company for Gertrude", posing as a Mr "Popjoy" at Blandings and trying to ingratiate himself with Lord Emsworth wins him the living at Much Matchingham. The family, at first against the match, change their minds and become strongly in favour, on learning that Bingham is nephew and heir to a wealthy shipping magnate. Not normally a quick thinker, he knows how to stop a dog fight, a talent which comes in especially handy in "The Go-getter".