Characters in "Uncle Fred in The Springtime"
- Lord Emsworth, absent-minded master of Blandings Castle
- George Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's eldest son
- Lady Constance Keeble, Emsworth's domineering sister
- Empress of Blandings, Emsworth's cherished prize pig
- Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, a cantakerous peer
- Rupert Baxter, Dunstable's secretary, formerly employed by Lord Emsworth
- Horace Pendlebury-Davenport, Dunstable's nephew
- Ricky Gilpin, another nephew of Dunstable, a poet
- Polly Pott, Ricky's fiancee and Horace's dance-teacher
- Claude "Mustard" Pott, Polly's father, a detective
- Polly Pott, Ricky's fiancee and Horace's dance-teacher
- Pongo Twistleton, an impoverished friend of Horace
- Valerie Twistleton, Pongo's sister, engaged to Horace
- Frederick Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, Pongo and Valerie's Uncle Fred
- Sir Roderick Glossop, a prominent nerve-specialist
- Beach, butler at the castle
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