John G. Butterwick
"J. G. Butterwick" (in Heavy Weather, 1933) and "John G. Butterwick" (in The Luck of the Bodkins, 1935), became "J. B. Butterwick" (in Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, 1972). He is the senior partner in Butterwick, Price and Mandelbaum, Import and Export Merchants.
He is the father of Gertrude Butterwick, and the uncle to Ambrose and Reggie Tennyson. He demands that Monty Bodkin hold a job for one full year before he can marry Gertrude.
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