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Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham is a fictional character created by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. Lord Emsworth, the benevolent though somewhat absent-minded patriarch of the large Threepwood family, lives at Blandings Castle, where he longs for peace and quiet, but must face the unpleasant reality of his domineering sisters and familial duties. His household forms the setting for a number of Wodehouse's books.
Lord Emsworth's favorite pastime is his garden, and he is always a competitor and often a winner in Shropshire's Agriculture Show. At first he contents himself with entering large pumpkins, most notably one named Blandings Hope, but later he enters his prize sow, the Empress of Blandings. The Empress's primary competitor is the Queen of Matchingham, who belongs to Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Emsworth's neighbor.
Family
Lord Emsworth has nine sisters, two brothers, two sons, at least one daughter, and many in-laws.
- Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- Hon. Freddie Threepwood
- Lord Percy Stockheath, Freddie's cousin whose parents are never named
- Algernon Wooster, Lord Percy's cousin, which suggests that Bertie Wooster may be a distant relative as well
- Niagara "Aggie" Donaldson, Freddie's wife
- Thomas Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's eldest son and heir to the earldom
- Cecily Threepwood, Lord Bosham's wife
- George Threepwood, Lord Bosham's second son
- Lady Mildred Mant, Emsworth's eldest daughter
- Colonel Horace Mant, her husband
- Angela, Emsworth's niece whose parents are never named
- Lady Ann Warblington, Emsworth's sister who had lived at Blandings since the death of his wife
- Lady Constance Keeble, later Schoonmaker, Emsworth's bossiest sister
- James Schoonmaker, her husband and an American millionaire
- Hon. Lancelot Threepwood, Emsworth's deceased brother
- Millicent Threepwood, his daughter
- Lady Julia Fish, Emsworth's large and blonde sister
- Maj. Gen. Sir Miles Fish, C.B.O., her late husband
- Ronald Overbury Fish, her son and a member of the Drones Club
- Hon. Galahad Threepwood, Emsworth's unmarried younger brother
- Lady Georgiana Alcester, who owns fourteen dogs
- Gertrude Alcester, her daughter
- Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".
- Lady Hermione Wedge, Emsworth's short and fat sister
- Colonel Egbert Wedge, Lady Hermione's husband
- Veronica Wedge, her daughter
- Lady Dora Garland, Emsworth's tall and stately sister
- Sir Everard Garland, KCB, her deceased husband
- Prudence Garland, Lady Dora's daughter
- Lady Florence Moresby, another of Emsworth's domineering sisters
- J. J. Underwood, Lady Florence's deceased first husband, a wealthy American
- Kevin Moresby, her second husband from whom she has separated
- Lady Diana Phipps, the only one of Emsworth's sisters whom Galahad likes
See also
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