Major Characters
Some of the students at St Custard's:
- Nigel Molesworth, the self-styled "curse of st custards" and "gorila of 3B"
- Molesworth 2, his younger brother. Described by Nigel as "uterly wet and a weed it panes me to think i am of the same blud". He is called George by a "gurl" in the final book.
- Peason, Molesworth's "grate frend" . Molesworth and Peason build numerous inventions together
- Gillibrand, another of Molesworth's classmates. It is mentioned in passing that his father is a General
- Grabber. Head boy of the School, "captane of everything" (especially "foopball") and "winer of the mrs joyful prize for rafia work". His parents are extremely rich, and Molesworth cynically opines that Grabber "could win a brownies knitting badge for the ushual amount"
- Basil Fotherington-Thomas. A weed and a sissy. He has curly blond locks and is prone to skip around the school girlishly saying "Hello clouds, hello sky"
Some of the staff at St Custard's:
- Headmaster GRIMES . Headmasters "are always very ferce and keep thousands of KANES chiz moan drone"
- Sigismund Arbuthnot, the mad maths master
- The Matron
(Many of the staff are anonymous.)
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