Ronald Overbury Fish
Lady Julia's son, Drone and would-be entrepreneur Ronnie is good friends with Hugo Carmody, with whom he once ran a nightclub (in Money for Nothing). A highly jealous young man, in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather he is in love with Sue Brown, and resents her long-time friendships with Carmody and past engagement to Monty Bodkin.
Educated at Eton and Cambridge (where he got a feather-weight boxing blue), he is sensitive about his short stature and red face, drives a jaunty two-seater Austin Seven and smokes his cigarettes in a long holder. Never known for the speed of his wits, he can act fast in a crisis, and is invariably well-informed on matters of the turf, a knack for which his good friend Beach is regularly grateful. When he was a child, Beach played bears with him in the pantry and used to take him fishing on the lake; later, when Ronnie was an undergraduate at Cambridge, he borrowed five pounds from Beach to see him through to his next allowance.
For a time, he has a valet, named Bessemer. He also has a cousin named George, whose father is a bishop and who, at the start of Heavy Weather, gets married in Norfolk, with Ronnie as best man.
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