Old Wykehamists - in Fiction

In Fiction

• Peregrine Pickle, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• Francis Arabin, in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers
• Josiah Crawley, in Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage and The Last Chronicle of Barset
• George Bertram, in Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams
• Arthur Wilkinson, also in Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams
• Richard Carstone, in Dickens's Bleak House
• Christopher Dysart, in Somerville and Ross's The Real Charlotte
• A. V. Laider, in Max Beerbohm's Seven Men (and two others)
• Alroy Keir, in W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale
• Sir Derek Underhill, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jill the Reckless
• Freddie Rooke, also in P. G. Wodehouse's Jill the Reckless
• Sinclair Hammond, in P. G. Wodehouse's Bill the Conqueror
• Collins, in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, "an embryo don ... a man of solid reading and childlike humour." In the television series, Charles Ryder is shown wearing an Old Wykehamist tie.
• Antrobus, in Lawrence Durrell's diplomatic trilogy
• Odoreida, in Stephen Potter's Lifemanship books
• James Arrowby, in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea
• Lieutenant Comber, in George MacDonald Fraser's Flash for Freedom
• Rupert Willem von Starnberg ("Bill") in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman and the Tiger ("The Road to Charing Cross")
• Captain Edward Bentinct-Boyle in Colditz (1972–74), played by Neil Stacy. He catches out a German planted among the prisoners who claimed to be an Old Wykehamist but didn't know his "Notions".
• Edgar Naylor, in Cyril Connolly's The Rock Pool
• Peter Hithersay, in Nicholas Shakespeare's "Snowleg"
• Claude Erskine-Browne (and several minor characters), in John Mortimer's Rumpole series
• Merlyn, in T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone
• Captain Sender in Ian Fleming's The Living Daylights
• Dr Spacely-Trellis, go-ahead bishop of Bevindon in the world of Peter Simple
• Sir Humphrey Appleby, in the TV series Yes Minister
• Mycroft Holmes, in Brian Freemantle's The Holmes Inheritance – brother of Sherlock Holmes
• Sebastian Holmes, in The Holmes Inheritance – son of Sherlock Holmes
• Charles Nantwich and William Beckwith, in Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library
• Larry Pettifer and his controller Tim Cranmer, in John le Carré's Our Game
• Dexter Mayhew, in One Day, a 2009 novel by David Nicholls, and the 2011 film adaptation
• General Melchett, portrayed by Stephen Fry in Blackadder Goes Forth