Сэр Родерик Глоссоп: Психиатр из романов Вудхауса

Fictional character in P. G. Wodehouse stories

Sir Roderick Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the comic novels and short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. Sometimes referred to as a "nerve specialist" or a "loony doctor", he is a prominent practitioner of psychiatry in Wodehouse's works, appearing in several Jeeves stories and in one Blandings Castle story. Though he is initially antagonistic towards Bertie Wooster, they become friends in later stories.

The character of Sir Roderick Glossop was inspired by Dr. Henry Crawford MacBryan, who operated a psychiatric nursing home in the hamlet of Ditteridge, in the parish of Box, Wiltshire, near Cheney House where the young Wodehouse spent some of his childhood with his aunts.

Though they are not friendly towards each other in the early stories, Glossop bonds with Bertie in Thank You, Jeeves (1934) when they both have to endure going about the countryside wearing blackface. As Bertie tells Jeeves, "From now on, there will always be a knife and fork for Bertram at the Glossop lair, and the same for Roddy chez Bertram". Inconsistencies in the relationship between Bertie and Glossop arise in the later novel Jeeves in the Offing (1960), as they do not seem to be on terms of friendship in the beginning of the story. When Bertie learns his Aunt Dahlia is going to have lunch with Glossop, Bertie states that Glossop "was a man I would not have cared to lunch with myself". However, they become friends in Jeeves in the Offing, after they bond over their realization that they each stole biscuits from the school headmaster's study as children. They start addressing each other as "Bertie" and "Roddy". Notably, in the 1965 short story "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird", Bertie tells Jeeves that he and "Roddy" are good friends, citing the ordeals they shared in Thank You, Jeeves. Sir Roderick has not yet married Lady Chuffnell in this story. To explain why Bertie and Sir Roderick are not already friends at the start of Jeeves in the Offing, Wodehouse scholar J. H. C. Morris suggested that Bertie and Sir Roderick had an undisclosed quarrel sometime after Thank You, Jeeves and before Jeeves in the Offing, implying that "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" occurs before this quarrel. Bertie continues to regard Sir Roderick Glossop as a friend in Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971). He describes "Roddy" as one of his leading pals.

In the 1965–1967 television series The World of Wooster, Sir Roderick Glossop was portrayed by Paul Whitsun Jones. In the 1990–1993 television series Jeeves and Wooster, Glossop was portrayed in three episodes by Roger Brierley in series 1 and 2, and once by Philip Locke in series 4. Unlike in the original stories, Sir Roderick separates from his first wife and is not a widower. He goes to New York, where he becomes engaged to his American assistant, Myrtle Snap, but quickly finds her to be domineering and leaves her. He also develops a new treatment plan which he calls the "Glossop Method" and treats Lord Bittlesham. In the 2013–2014 television series Blandings, he was portrayed by Geoffrey McGivern in series 2, episode 1, "Throwing Eggs".

In the 1973–1981 radio drama series What Ho! Jeeves, Sir Roderick Glossop was voiced by Andrew Cruickshank in an adaptation of The Inimitable Jeeves, and by John Graham in an adaptation of Thank You, Jeeves. Guy Siner voiced Sir Roderick Glossop in the 1998 L. A. Theatre Works radio adaptation of Thank You, Jeeves.