This is a list of original characters found in the Greyfriars School stories by Charles Hamilton, writing as Frank Richards.
Each stood aside with ceremonious and bitter politeness to allow the other to enter first.
Each, finding that the other waited, decided at the same moment to enter first – with the natural result that there was a sudden jam in the doorway.
"If I did not make this my business, Loder, I should resign my prefect-ship.
Probably, had Coker's Aunt Judy heard that question, she would have changed her ideas on the subject!
"I wouldn't put any," said Greene, shaking his head.
The Remove is the home of the main protagonists in the stories, including the Famous Five, Billy Bunter, and Herbert Vernon-Smith.
Most of these arrived as a central character in a particular storyline, and disappeared shortly afterwards, having either been expelled or simply not mentioned again.
Of the 39 characters in the list, it is noteworthy that it took the author 559 weeks to assemble 38 of them.
There are few mentions of a First form at Greyfriars and none at all after the early era of The Magnet.
"If that leads to trouble between Cliff House and Greyfriars, it's about the hardest knock we could give those cads!"
I don't care so far as the Greyfriars cads are concerned, but I'm not goin' to have a hand in raggin' girls.
The girls won't come to any harm- they'll get a fright, but we shall take them off later, in time to get them back to their school.
St. Jim's School was created by Charles Hamilton in 1907 for stories featured in The Gem, with the author writing as Martin Clifford.
The leading characters at St. Jim's occasionally appeared in Greyfriars stories, for example in episodes involving sporting fixtures or holiday travel stories.
Rookwood School was created by Charles Hamilton in 1915 for stories featured in the Boy's Friend Weekly, with the author writing as Owen Conquest.
As with St. Jim's, the leading characters at Rookwood occasionally appeared in Greyfriars stories, usually when a Greyfriars Remove cricket or soccer team was matched against a Rookwood team captained by Jimmy Silver.
The appearances and first introductions below are those for the Greyfriars stories in The Magnet.
Bob breathed hard, quite conscious of the suppressed smiles of his comrades.
"A very pretty name, little boy, and very suitable indeed to a little lad with such rosy cheeks."
The expression on Bill Lodgey's face, as he came, was aggressive, bullying.
Lodgey's eyes remained fixed on his face.
Hazel's hand came out of his pocket, with a banknote for ten pounds crumpled in it.
Not for twice and thrice ten pounds would Bill Lodgey have touched that banknote - with that look in the wretched boy's face.
Lodgey had had many narrow escapes, in his time, from seeing the inside of a prison cell, and was by no means anxious to find himself quartered in one.