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In the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, Sebastian Beach is the butler at Blandings Castle, seat of Lord Emsworth and his family, where he serves for eighteen years. Like all of Wodehouse's male domestic servants, Beach is always known by his surname. He appears in twelve books, in which he resigns once, after shooting Rupert Baxter with an air-gun, and threatens to give notice on another occasion because of Lord Emsworth's beard. He is a heavyset man whose favorite pastime is drinking port in the pantry, though he occasionally switches to brandy during crises.
Beach's niece Maudie Beach Montrose Stubbs Digby, her last three surnames left over from previous marriages, marries Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and becomes Lady Parsloe, causing Sir Gregory deep embarrassment when he must address Beach as "Uncle Sebastian".
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