Lord Jeremy Pimpole is a fictional character created by author

Tom Sharpe Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his '' Wilt'' series, as well as ''Porterhouse Blue'' and ''Blott on the Landscape,'' all three of which were adapted for television. Life ...

, a

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novelist. The character of Lord Pimpole is first mentioned in ''

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'' (1974), set in the fictitious

Porterhouse College ''Porterhouse Blue'' is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974. A satirical look at Cambridge University, Cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform, ''Porterhouse Blue'' tells the story of Skullion, the Head P ...

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. Pimpole went up to Porterhouse as a student in 1959. His name, with that of a former student, Sir Launcelot Gutterby, is often chanted to himself by Skullion, the Head

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, as the mantra "Gutterby and Pimpole", when it seems that standards at the College are slipping. This helps to remind Skullion of the days when students had been proper gentlemen. In the sequel, '' Grantchester Grind'' (1995), the character of Pimpole plays a more central role. In this novel he has changed from the 'delightfully vague and charming young man' of his student days to an unwashed and abusive alcoholic with a sexual predilection for sheep and dogs. Because of his spending, mostly on alcohol, he has lost Pimpole Hall, the ancestral home, and is reduced to living in a gamekeeper's lodge on what had been his family's estate. His favourite drink is ''Dog's Nose'', usually made up of seven ounces of gin to thirteen ounces of beer. Pimpole's version of the drink is made up of 60% gin. At the end of '' Grantchester Grind'' Skullion, who became Master of Porterhouse College on the death of Sir Godber Evans, nominates Lord Pimpole as the next Master of the College.

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* Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe Published by Secker & Warburg (1974) * Grantchester Grind by Tom Sharpe Published by Andre Deutsch Secker & Warburg (1995) Literary characters introduced in 1974 Characters in British novels of the 20th century {{novel-char-stub

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