Educated at Eton and Oxford, his father was a small-town solicitor. He inherited a fortune (£300,000) from an aunt who married a Pittsburgh millionaire. He is the nephew of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and also has an uncle Lancelot and an uncle Percy (who collected old china).
Tall, slender and lissom, with butter-coloured hair, he has 'Sue' tattooed on his chest, having once been engaged to Sue Brown, but only for a few weeks. He is now around 28 years old.
He is a member of the Drones Club and looks it.
In pursuit of his goal, Monty got a job as assistant editor of Tiny Tots, one of Lord Tilbury's publications, was fired, then became Lord Emsworth's secretary through his uncle. This led to him being falsely suspected of being there to nobble Lord E.'s prize pig. He did become involved in plots to steal Galahad Threepwood's Reminiscences and of trying to steal Sue Brown from Ronnie Fish. Eventually, he paid Percy Pilbeam to take him on as an assistant private detective. (Heavy Weather)
A few weeks later, Monty was in Cannes on holiday when he got a cable from Gertrude breaking their engagement. As a result, he joined her on the RMS Atlantic to New York. On the voyage, he met the actress Lotus Blossom who kept chatting to him, to Gertrude's displeasure, and was offered a job by motion picture magnate Ivor Llewellyn, who thought Monty was a Customs spy. The engagement was on and off through the voyage largely due to Gertrude's suspicions, 'help' from Monty's friend Reggie Tennyson and interference from both the deck steward and Miss Blossom. (The Luck of the Bodkins)
He worked as an 'Adviser for Productions' at the Superba-Llewellyn motion picture studios in Hollywood for the prescribed year before returning home. Gertrude's father declared the year in Hollywood null and void, claiming that Monty got it by blackmail, but Monty got another chance and secured a job as Ivor's secretary with the help of Sandy Miller, his erstwhile secretary in Hollywood. After escaping a police raid at a night club through her actions, Monty realised that he was in love with Sandy, not Gertrude, but couldn't just break the engagement. Hopefully, Gertrude would do that ... (Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin)