[1] Percy Jeeves was born on 5 March 1888 in Earlsheaton, near Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

[5] In late summer 1910, Warwickshire County Cricket Club secretary Rowland Ryder saw Jeeves playing at Hawes and was impressed.

Later in 1910, Warwickshire CCC's general committee decided to make Jeeves an offer of engagement for 1911.

[7] While still qualifying for the county championship, he played his first two first-class matches in 1912 for Warwickshire against the Australian and South African touring teams.

[10] After the outbreak of the First World War and once the 1914 cricket season had finished, Jeeves volunteered for service in the army.

He was among thousands of volunteers who assembled at Birmingham General Hospital to depart for army training on 10 October 1914.

[12] On 22 July 1916, Private Jeeves (aged 28) was killed in action in France, at High Wood near Montauban-de-Picardie, during the Battle of the Somme.

His body was never recovered and his name is carved on the Thiepval Memorial for soldiers with no known grave who died during the Battle of the Somme.

[15] In 1967, Rowland Ryder, son of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club secretary (also named Rowland Ryder) who had discovered Percy Jeeves at Hawes, wrote to Wodehouse asking if he named the character after Percy Jeeves of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

Wodehouse replied with another letter gladly accepting the tie and wrote that it was "the only one I wear nowadays".

Wodehouse wore the tie in photographs for a 1971 interview with Michael Davie in the colour supplement of The Observer.