Claude Winnington-Bates
An alumnus of Wrykyn, where he was once given six of the juiciest by Sam Shotter for stealing jam sandwiches from the school shop, Mr Bates grows up to be a thoroughly unpleasant sort, avoiding old acquaintances for fear they may touch him for cash and trying to kiss girls he believes to be under his power. He falls for Kay Derrick while she is working for his mother, resulting in her leaving her job, and later has to be chased off with a hosepipe after following her home, in Sam the Sudden.
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