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Butlers

Who buttled* for who and where? Check the list below.
(Major characters are linked to other pages.)

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A male figure in silhouette carrying a tray with a bottle and two glasses - 'He loomed in the doorway like a dignified cloudbank' -
Bagshaw
For the Bingo Littles in Bingo and the Peke Crisis.
Bagshot
For the Cammarleighs in The Code of the Mulliners.
Barlow
At School House, Sedleigh College
Barter
At The Cedars, Wimbledon Common, for Lady Julia Ukridge in Buttercup Day, A Tithe for Charity and Ukridge and the Home from Home.
Bastable
For Rupert Bingley in Market Snodsbury.
Baxter
For Lady Julia Ukridge in The Level Business Head.
Bayliss
For Mr and Mrs Bingley Crocker in London.
Beach
For Lord Emsworth at Blandings Castle.
Bellows
For Lord Middlewick at Blandings Castle in the stage version of Leave it to Psmith.
Bewstridge
For Jeremiah Briggs in Came the Dawn.
Biggleswade
For Sir Mortimer and Lady Penderbury at Matcham Scratchings in Good-bye to All Cats.
Binstead
For Sir Gregory Parsloe at Matchingham Hall, Shropshire. First name Herbert, he is a young, sprightly butler who allows Sir Gregory's pig man to call him 'Herb' in Pigs Have Wings.
Blenkinsop
Once butler to J. G. Butterwick. (The Luck of the Bodkins)
Blizzard
For the Fishers in Long Island. (High Stakes)
Briggs
For the Morrisons at Norworth Court (not permanent staff) in The Prince and Betty,
Brookfield
For the Rev. Francis Heppenstall in Twing. (The Inimitable Jeeves)
Bulstrode
1. For Colonel Wyvern at Wyvern Hall. 16 years old and greatly be-pimpled, he chews toffee while waiting at table.
2. For Mrs Wilberforce Gudgeon, of Wimbledon Common, in Joy Bells for Barmy.
3. For Mr and Mrs Brimble, of Long Island, in Barmy in Wonderland.
Butterfield
For Sir Watkyn Bassett at Totleigh Towers, Glos. Compiling his Memoirs. (The Code of the Woosters and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves)
Cakebread
Name used by Lord Uffenham while acting as butler at his own house, Shipley Hall in Money in the Bank.
Chaffinch
Butler to the Brinkmeyers in Hollywood. He is really an actor hoping for a break.
Sidney Chibnall
For the Steptoe's at Claines Hall, Sussex. Lissom and athletic, dignified but sinewy. Saving to but a pub and marry Vera Pym. (Quick Service)
Chippendale
Really a broker's man, he acted as butler for Crispin Scrope at Mellingham Hall in The Girl in Blue.
Coggs
For Lord Ickenham at Ickenham Hall, Hampshire.
Eustace Coleman
For Mike Bond at Mallow Hall, Worcs. in Do Butlers Burgle Banks?.
Croome
For Neville-Smith at Bray Lench in The Fifteenth Man.
Dobson
For Sir Roderick Glossop at Chuffnell Regis.
Ferris
Rupert Anthony Ferris, previously at Brangmarley Hall in Little Seeping-in-the-Wold, Shropshire, a widower now working for the Waddingtons in New York. A gloomy, disapproving man. (The Small Bachelor)
Andrew Ferris (same man, different name) temporarily for Henry Paradene in Company for Henry. Age 54, still gloomy.
Fotheringay
1. For Lord Biddlecombe in Came the Dawn.
2. For Lady Widdrington in Cats Will Be Cats.
3. For Mrs Beenstock in The Great Fat Uncle Contest.
Gascoigne
For the Earl of Wivelscombe in The Luck of the Stiffhams.
Jeeves
For Lord Rowcester at Rowcester Abbey and as a stand-in for Seppings at Brinkley Court.
Jorkins
Name used by Cyril Bunting while posing as a butler in Frozen Assets.
Keggs
Several of this name.
Maple
For Lord Worplesdon at Bumpleigh Hall, Hampshire.
Meadows
For Jno. Horatio Biggs in The Romance of a Bulb-squeezer.
Morris
For Mr Romney in Against the Clock.
Mulready
For Sir Reginald Witherspoon at Bleaching Court, Upper Bleaching, Hants. (The Ordeal of Young Tuppy)
Murgatroyd
1. For Tom and Dahlia Travers at Brinkley Court, Worcs., before Pomeroy, and who stole a fish slice.
2. For Sir Jasper ffinch-ffarrowmere at ffinch hall, Yorkshire in A Slice of Life.
Oakshott
1. For Bertie Wooster's uncle Willoughby in Jeeves Takes Charge.
2. For Lady Julia Ukridge in The Come-Back of Battling Billson and Success Story.
Parker
1. For Rev. Herbert Perceval, headmaster of St. Austin's College.
2. For Mrs Drassilis.
Albert Peasemarch
For Sir Raymond Bastable at Hammer Lodge.
Perks
For Colonel Stewart at Gorton Hall.
Phipps
George Phipps, for Lord Bromborough at Rumpling Hall, Norfolk.
Pollen
For Sir Buckstone Abbott at Walsingford Hall.
Pomeroy
For Tom and Dahlia Travers at Brinkley Court, Worcs., prior to Seppings. (The Code of the Woosters)
Ponsonby
For Harold and Hilda Bodkin. (The Test Case)
Purvis
For Agatha Gregson. (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
Riggs
For Lady Dora Garland in Grosvenor Square, London.
Roberts
For Cooley Paradene on Long Island in Bill the Conqueror.
Saunders
For Lord Dreever at Dreever Castle.
Seppings
For Tom and Dahlia Travers at Brinkley Court, Worcs. Has been known to succumb to an excess of the Travers' chef's cooking. Appears in Right Ho, Jeeves and Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.
Silversmith
For Esmond Haddock at Deverill Hall, Hants.
Simmons
For Lady Wickham at Skeldings Hall in Something Squishy and The Awful Gladness of the Mater.
Skidmore
For Roscoe Bunyan (and Lord Uffenham) at Shipley Hall in Something Fishy.
Skinner
For the Petts in Piccadilly Jim.
Sleddon
For Willoughby Braddock. (Sam the Sudden)
Slingsby
For the Earl of Droitwich. (If I Were You)
Spenser
For Agatha Gregson.
Mervyn Spink
Butler to Lord Shortlands and his rival for the affections of the cook. Tall, aristocratic and elegant, he looks like an earl. (Spring Fever)
Staniforth
1. Butler to Mrs Elphinstone-Golightly in The Right Approach (magazine version).
2. Butler to Mrs Willoughby Gudgeon in The Right Approach (book version).
Horace Stout
Ex butler to Lady Julia Ukridge in Ukridge Starts a Bank Account.
Sturgis
For Lester Carmody at Rudge Hall.
Swordfish
Alias of Sir Roderick Glossop working undercover at Brinkley Court.
Teal
At Evenwood House in A Man of Means.
Vosper
Hildebrand Vosper, for the Fishers in Long Island. (Keeping in with Vosper)
Wace
For Mr and Mrs Sinclair Hammond in Wimbledon Common.
Watson
For the headmaster of Eckleton College.
Weeks
For Peter's family in The Mixer.
White
For Sanstead House school.
Willoughby
1. Once worked for Lord Tilbury. (Frozen Assets)
2. For Mrs J G Beenstock in Stylish Stouts.
Wrench
For Lord and Lady Wetherby in Long Island, New York. (Previously with the Dowager Duchess of Waveney.) He disapproves of America.

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* Apparently, and before you ask, both 'butled' and 'buttled' are acceptable spellings. If you think some of the names are a little unusual, it does seem like PG was being a bit playful. Apart from 'Swordfish' and 'Cakebread', which were both aliases anyway, one does wonder at 'Blizzard', 'Chaffinch', 'Pollen' and 'Wrench'. Perhaps the most telling is Jeeves's uncle, Silversmith, since the original duties of a butler were concerning the wine cellar and the silver plate.

Just a passing thought, but would the collective noun for butlers be a Satisfaction?