Editing Bertie Wooster (section)

==Inspiration==

The Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy believes [[George Grossmith Jr.]] to have been the inspiration for the character of Bertie Wooster.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1574698/P-G-Wodehouse-fan-reveals-the-real-life-Jeeves.html |title=P G Wodehouse fan reveals the real-life Jeeves |first1=Chris |last1=Hastings |first2=Beth |last2=Jones |date=6 January 2008 |newspaper=[[The Sunday Telegraph]] |access-date=6 August 2017}}</ref> Others have asserted [[John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley]] was the inspiration.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rintoul |first=M. C. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/872114511 |title=Dictionary of real people and places in fiction |date=1993 |isbn=978-1-136-11940-8 |location=London |oclc=872114511}}</ref> P. G. Wodehouse was a distant cousin of John Wodehouse. He was also the godfather to the 3rd Earl's son, [[John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1395628/The-Earl-of-Kimberley.html The Earl of Kimberley] (obituary) in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' dated 29 May 2002, accessed 23 February 2018</ref>

The Wodehouse character [[Reggie Pepper]] was an early prototype of Bertie Wooster.