Marmaduke ("Chuffy"), Lord Chuffnell, appears in a number of books by comic author P. G. Wodehouse.He is another friend of Bertie Wooster, one of the impoverished gentry. Bertie rents a cottage from him when his apartment manager evicts him over Bertie's trombone-playing. Called English literatures performing flea, P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output. ... Critics saw Bertie Wooster, here portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, as detrimental to the worldwide image of a young British man. ... The gentry is a social class of landowners. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ...
He is replaced by Brinkley, a most unsatisfactory valet (who is referred to as "Bingley" in some later books), and together they travel to Dorset for some country air.
Chuffy, whose high rank is only matched by his low financial status, hopes to sell his family home to raise cash, and needs Jeeves' help in persuading millionaire J. Washburn Stoker to stump up the cash, funding a scheme to create a mental hospital to be run by Sir Roderick Glossop.
Stoker's daughter, the beautiful Pauline, is not only a former fiancee of Bertie, but also the object of Chuffy's meek affections.
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