Editing Bertie Wooster (section)

===Family===
Due to the volume of stories and time span over which Wodehouse wrote them, there are a number of inconsistencies and contradictions in the information given about his relatives.  Bertie and several of his relations appear in the early semi-canonical short story "[[Extricating Young Gussie]]". In that story the family name is Mannering-Phipps, not Wooster, and the story has been excluded from most collections of Jeeves and Wooster material, even though the incidents in that story are referenced in later stories.

The family members who make an appearance in the most Jeeves stories are Bertie's [[Aunt Dahlia]] (7 short stories, 7 novels) and [[Aunt Agatha]] (8 short stories). Aunt Dahlia is friendly and good-natured while Aunt Agatha is cold and haughty, though both make demands of Bertie. Bertie feels obliged to follow their whims, often getting in trouble doing so. Aunt Dahlia's husband [[Tom Travers]] and children [[Angela Travers|Angela]] and [[Bonzo Travers]] play important roles. Spenser Gregson, Aunt Agatha's first husband, does not play a major role, but their son Thomas "Thos" Gregson and later her second husband [[Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon]] appear in the stories.

Aside from Aunts Dahlia and Agatha, Bertie Wooster's father had other siblings. In "Extricating Young Gussie", Bertie's Uncle Cuthbert is described as the "late head of the family", but it is said his son Gussie has no title; Cuthbert's widow is Bertie's Aunt Julia. Another uncle is [[Willoughby Wooster|Uncle Willoughby]], upon whom Bertie is initially financially dependent. One of Bertie's uncles, the late [[Henry Wooster]], was the husband of Bertie's Aunt Emily; [[Claude and Eustace Wooster|Claude and Eustace]] are their twin sons and Bertie's cousins. In "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", Bertie takes a present for another of Aunt Emily's sons, Harold, who has just turned six, but, embarrassed at the relatively inexpensive gift he had bought, Bertie wrenches his Uncle James's card off a toy aeroplane, replacing it with his own.<ref>Carry On, Jeeves</ref> Bertie's Uncle George is [[Lord Yaxley]], so if he inherited that title he is likely to be Bertie's eldest living uncle, and Bertie's paternal grandfather may have held the title as well. However, the relative ages of Bertie's father and remaining uncles are not delineated, so it is unclear whether Bertie or one of his male cousins is in line to inherit the peerage. It is theoretically possible that the title was a life peerage under the [[Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876]], but unlikely as Uncle George is described as having devoted his life to food and drink.

In the story "[[Bertie Changes His Mind]]", Bertie mentions a sister who has three daughters, referred to by Jeeves as [[List of Jeeves characters#Mrs Scholfield|Mrs Scholfield]], though his sister and nieces are not mentioned again.

====List of relatives====
Bertie Wooster has many relatives who appear or are mentioned in the stories. Three other possible relatives (Cuthbert and Julia Mannering-Phipps and their son Gussie) appear or are mentioned in "[[Extricating Young Gussie]]", though in this story Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps. It is not shown in later stories if the three relatives are renamed Wooster. In his book ''Who's Who in Wodehouse'', Daniel Garrison suggests that the protagonist of "Extricating Young Gussie", Bertie Mannering-Phipps, is a prototype of the later Bertie Wooster.<ref>Garrison (1991), p. 111.</ref> Richard Usborne writes that Bertie Wooster does appear in "Extricating Young Gussie" though his last name is Mannering-Phipps in the story.<ref>Usborne (2003), p. 73.</ref> In the book ''Wodehouse in Woostershire'', it is suggested that Bertie's grandmother was married twice, first to a Mannering-Phipps and then to a Wooster with the title Lord Yaxley.<ref>Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 161–163, 275–276.</ref> Due to the uncertainty surrounding the Mannering-Phipps family, they are listed with asterisks below.

Some marriages occur during the course of the stories. Bertie's uncle Lord Yaxley marries Maud Wilberforce as a result of the events of "[[Indian Summer of an Uncle]]",<ref>Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 278–279.</ref> and Bertie's aunt Agatha Gregson marries Lord Worplesdon sometime before the events of ''[[Joy in the Morning (Wodehouse novel)|Joy in the Morning]]''.<ref>Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 296.</ref>

Bertie Wooster's relatives include:<ref>Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 132–133, 275–276, 295–296.</ref>

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* Unnamed parents (deceased)
* [[List of Jeeves characters#Mrs Scholfield|Mrs Scholfield]] (sister; no first name given)
** Three unnamed nieces
* [[Dahlia Travers]] (aunt)
** [[Tom Travers]] (uncle by marriage)
** In the short story "Clustering Round Young Bingo" (1925) Tom Travers is presented as Bertie's uncle and Dahlia Travers as marrying into the family. 
** [[Angela Travers]] (cousin)
** [[Bonzo Travers]] (cousin)
** George Travers (uncle)
* [[Agatha Gregson]] (aunt)
** Spenser Gregson (uncle by marriage; deceased)
** [[List of Jeeves characters#Thomas Gregson|Thomas Gregson]] (cousin)
** [[Lord Worplesdon]] (uncle by marriage)
** [[Florence Craye]] (step-cousin)
** [[Edwin Craye]] (step-cousin)
* [[George Wooster|George Wooster, Lord Yaxley]] (uncle)
** Maud Wilberforce Wooster, Lady Yaxley (aunt by marriage)
* [[Henry Wooster]] (uncle; deceased)
** [[Emily Wooster]] (aunt by marriage)
** [[Claude and Eustace Wooster]] (twin cousins)
** Harold Wooster (cousin)
* [[List of Jeeves characters#Uncle Willoughby|Uncle Willoughby]] (unknown surname)
* Uncle James (unknown surname)
* Cuthbert Mannering-Phipps (uncle; deceased)*
** Julia Mannering-Phipps (aunt by marriage)*
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