Saturday, December 21, 2013

Lower Barnatoland

You perhaps are not familiar with this remote corner of the British Empire, but we learn in the Wodehouse novel, Uncle Dynamite, that its governor at one time was Sir Aylmer Bostock. He was a particularly offensive and dominating character who got his come-uppance (as all villains do) under the operations of that master spread of sweetness and light, Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am just re-reading Uncle Dynamite, and decided to Google lower Barnatoland. I wondered where it might be, if it were real. The only thing I find on the web is your post! I'll have to go on imagining some remote corner of Africa, I suppose! :-)

Anonymous said...

Same thing that I've just done...and with the same result!��