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H. W. (Herbert Wetton) Westbrook
Remembered mainly for his early partnership with P. G. Wodehouse, this little-known writer helped shape some of the comic world readers now strongly associate with Wodehouse. He also published short fiction and worked on theatrical pieces of his own.
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Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, H. W. (Herbert Wetton) Westbrook
About the author
Herbert Wetton Westbrook, also called Herbert Wotton Westbrook, was a writer best known as an early collaborator of P. G. Wodehouse. Sources available here agree that he assisted Wodehouse with the "By the Way" column for The Globe, and that the two also wrote together on other projects.
According to the biographical sources found, Westbrook taught Latin and Greek at Emsworth House, a prep school near Portsmouth, where he became a close friend of Wodehouse after they met in 1903. Their friendship fed directly into Wodehouse's fiction: Westbrook is described as at least part of the model for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, and through him Wodehouse encountered names such as Emsworth, Threepwood, and Beach, all of which later became famous in Wodehouse's work.
Westbrook's own bibliography is not large in the sources we could confirm, but it includes short stories in The Windsor Magazine and the collaborative novel Not George Washington. He died on March 22, 1959. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources checked, so a profile image is not included.