When Galahad first met him, Parsloe was walking around a supper-table at Romano's, wearing a soup-tureen on his head and holding a stick of celery, claiming he was a sentry outside Buckingham Palace.
•
Sometime in the late 'nineties (the exact year is uncertain), he stole Lord Burper's false teeth and pawned them at a shop on the Edgware Road; he was also involved in a mysterious incident revolving around the shellfish known as prawns, of which little is known, save that it took place at Ascot, "the year Martingale won the Gold Cup".
•
Like Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes books, Parsloe-Parsloe is the chief villain in Lord Emsworth's life, having first sustained a bitter rivalry in the raising of pumpkins for the Shrewsbury Show.
Gregory Peck | Gregory of Tours | Order of St. Gregory the Great | Gregory Bateson | Pope Gregory VII | Gregory of Nyssa | Pope Gregory XIII | Pope Gregory XVI | Lady Gregory | Gregory S. Paul | Gregory Corso | Pope Gregory XV | Gregory of Nazianzus | Pope Gregory XI | Philippa Gregory | Gregory the Illuminator | Gregory Olsen | Gregory Blaxland | Dick Gregory | Pope Gregory I | Gregory Reinhart | Gregory Deyermenjian | Gregory Crewdson | Gregory Benford | Francis Thomas Gregory | Andre Gregory | Pope Gregory X | Pope Gregory VI | Jack Gregory | Gregory Thaumaturgus |
One particularly embarrassing story concerns Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and prawns, though we never learn many details of the incident, other than that it took place at Ascot, "the year Martingale won the Gold Cup".
His mother lives in Eastbourne and his niece, Maudie, the bohemian of the family, ran away from home to become a barmaid at the old Criterion (where she was familiar with Galahad and Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe) under the name of Maudie Montrose; she later married several times before getting back together with her old flame "Tubby" Parsloe.