[5] Generally a teetotaller, he drinks whisky once, and says that it tastes unpleasantly like medicine, burns the throat and leaves one thirsty.

[4] Having become interested in newts as a child, Gussie became more devoted to studying these creatures through university and afterward, eventually observing the amphibians in a pond at his home in Lincolnshire.

His engagement to Madeline is ended and renewed in The Code of the Woosters, in which he also comes into conflict with Roderick Spode.

When in court after being arrested for wading in the Trafalgar Square fountain, he uses the alias Alfred Duff Cooper (clearly taken from British politician Alfred Duff Cooper),[14] and he uses Bertie Wooster's name when pretending to be Bertie at Deverill Hall.

[15] In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, his engagement to Madeline is ended for good after she tries to make him stick to a vegetarian diet, and Gussie elopes with Emerald Stoker.

Bertie recounts that at the grammar school, Gussie "had got pickled to the gills and made an outstanding exhibition of himself, setting up a mark at which all future orators would shoot in vain".