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Yes, you are quite right. It must have been in 1913 that I paid a visit to my parents in
Cheltenham and went to see Warwickshire play Gloucestershire on the Cheltenham College ground. I suppose Jeeves's bowling must have impressed me, for I remembered him in 1916 when I was in New York and starting
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While still qualifying for the county championship, he played his first two first-class matches in 1912 for
Warwickshire against the Australian and South African touring teams. His first-class debut was on 30 May 1912 against the Australian team. In 1913, mainly a fast-medium bowler, he took 106
558:. Davie commented the tie had been singed by Wodehouse's pipe; the Warwickshire CCC secretary, Leslie Deakins, sent Wodehouse another tie. According to Ryder, Wodehouse "had virtually become an honorary member of the club". The first letter from Wodehouse to Ryder is displayed in Warwickshire's
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Gloucestershire, I think. Calling a character after a county cricketer is lucky. Sherlock and Holmes were both county cricketers. I believe Doyle had decided on
538:, son of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club secretary (also named Rowland Ryder) who had discovered Percy Jeeves at Hawes, wrote to Wodehouse asking if he named the character after Percy Jeeves of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club. Ryder shortly received a letter from Wodehouse in reply:
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to depart for army training on 10 October 1914. He became
Private 611 Jeeves of the 2nd Birmingham Battalion, C Company. With the rest of the battalion, he began training on 13 October 1914. Jeeves would spend Christmas with his family in Goole for the last time in 1914.
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After receiving
Wodehouse's letter, Ryder sent Wodehouse a Warwickshire tie. Wodehouse replied with another letter gladly accepting the tie and wrote that it was "the only one I wear nowadays". Wodehouse wore the tie in photographs for a 1971 interview with
373:, England, United Kingdom. He was the son of Edwin Jeeves, a passenger guard for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and Edwin's wife Nancy Jeeves, née Garforth. Percy Jeeves had two older brothers, Thomas and Alick, and a younger brother, Harold.
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predicted a bright future for him. Jeeves played his last first-class match on 27 August 1914 for
Warwickshire against Surrey. Jeeves had played 2 first-class matches in 1912, 24 first-class matches in 1913, and 24 first-class matches in 1914.
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Rowland Ryder saw Jeeves playing at Hawes and was impressed. Later in 1910, Warwickshire CCC's general committee decided to make Jeeves an offer of engagement for 1911. He accepted and moved to
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the Jeeves and Bertie saga, and it was just the name I wanted. I have always thought till lately that he was playing for
Gloucestershire that day. (I remember admiring his action very much.)
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Sherrinford Holmes, when he suddenly thought of
Mordecai Sherlock , who used to keep wicket for Yorkshire. Jeeves seemed to me just right for the sort of bloke I wanted."
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wickets in first-class matches, at 20.88, and scored 765 runs at 20.13. In 1914, he took 90 further wickets. In all, he took 199 wickets in his 50
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