Malvern House Preparatory School, at

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, was a preparatory school which specialised in preparing boys for entry to the Royal Naval College at

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Notable pupils

* Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, attended the school from 1881 to 1883. *The comic writer P. G. Wodehouse was at the school from 1891 to 1893.

Fictional Malvern House School

In 1915, P. G. Wodehouse gave the school's name to a fictional school, relocated to the equally fictional Bramley-on-Sea on the south coast of England, where Bertie Wooster, Gussie Fink-Nottle, and

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studied in their early years, under the Rev.

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, headmaster. Bertie Wooster and

, while having breakfast in the novel ''

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'', spoke unfavourably of the Malvern House food, and in particular of the sausages on Sundays and the boiled mutton with caper sauce. The sausages were later mentioned in a newspaper review of Upjohn's reminiscences, when

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added Kipper's remark to his draft review that the sausages were made, "not from content pigs but pigs that had expired, regretted by all, of glanders, the botts and tuberculosis". This resulted in Upjohn launching a libel action. Gussie Fink-Nottle and Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright also attended the school. So did

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, an enemy of Bertie, as Bertie says they were ''at private school, Eton and Oxford together.Wodehouse, 1954: "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" chapter 2

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