Freddie Widgeon is a recurring fictional character from the Drones Club stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Bingo Little and Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster. Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... The fictional Drones Club, located in Dover Street, London, (where a real club, the Arts Club, is based) was created by English comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. ... Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: ) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Richard Bingo Little appears in a number of books by the renowned comic author, P. G. Wodehouse. ... Jeeves, here portrayed by Stephen Fry in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, is P.G. Wodehouses most famous character. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ...

Overview

The most prominent facet of his character is his amazing rapidity in loving and losing girls (this happens in nearly all stories in which he features). He is financially dependent on his eternally discontent uncle, Lord Blicester, who appears in some of the stories.

Freddie stars in many short stories. Perhaps two of the liveliest Freddie Widgeon stories combine to portray a characteristic of Freddie's almost as recurrent as his knack for loving and losing girls. In "Noblesse Oblige" from Young Men in Spats and in "The Masked Troubadour" from Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets, Freddie gets into difficulties and loses money due to his loyal allegiance to the Code of the Widgeons. Whether it is giving his last tenner to a fellow he mistakenly assumes is an old school chum, or giving whatever is asked by a "greasy bird" whose life Freddie saves, Freddie grimly parts with money he cannot spare because he considers it the "only square thing to do". His stories are told by Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. In French, noblesse oblige means, literally, nobility obliges. // Noblesse oblige is generally used to imply that with wealth, power, and prestige come social responsibilities. ... Young Men in Spats is a collection of eleven short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on 3 April 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then in the U.S. with a slightly different selection of stories on 23 July 1936 by Doubleday Doran, New York. ... The Masked Troubadour is a short story by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the U.K. in the December 1936 issue of the Strand. ... Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on April 26, 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then with a slightly different content in the U.S. on May 10, 1940 by Doubleday Doran, New York. ...