Good-Bye Mr.Chips

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Merivale	Merivale was Mr.Chipping's doctor. He came over at Mrs. Wickets for usual fortnightly visits to check up on Chipping.
Mrs.Wicket	Mrs. Wicket was an old lady who had rented a room to Mr.Chips after his retirement across Brookfield School. She had worked in the linen room of the school as well.
Katherine Bridges	Katherine Bridges was Mr.Chips's wife. He met her in the Lake District while on vacation and they got married in 1896. She died two years later during childbirth. She was a young woman of twenty-five (in 1896) with straw colored hair, blue flashing eyes and freckled cheeks. She was a governess and had strong radical opinions about politics and believed in the empowerment of women.
Ralston	Ralston succeeded Meldrum as the principal of Brookfieldin 1900. He was a young man of thirty-seven, had a lot of firsts and blues, was efficient, ambitious and ruthless with the sort of personality that could reduce the Big Hall to silence with the lifting of an eye brow. Mr. Chips didn't like Ralston. He raised the status of Brookfield considerably but left to "better himself" in 1911. He served as head master for 11 years.
Meldrum	Meldrum was the principal of Brookfield who succeeded Wetherby in 1970. He held office for three decades and died suddenly of pneumonia in 1900.
Wetherby	Wetherby was the principal of Brookfield from 1840 to 1870. He restored much of the lost status of Brookfield. He died in 1870, when chips joined Brookfield. He was very fatherly and kind to Mr. chips and offered him good advice.
Lloyd George	Lloyd George was a British liberal and politician. Chips was orthodox about him, and when he came to the Brookfield Speech Day as Guest of Honor, Mr. Chips said "Mr. Lloyd George, I am nearly old enough to remember you as a young man, and i confess that you seem to have improved a great deal."
Rowden	Rowden was a colleague of Mr. Chips with whom he went to the lake District to spend his summer of 1896.
Colley	Richard Colley was the first boy Mr. Chips punished when he came to Brookfield. He was taking call-over on a September sunset when Colley dropped a desk lid. Mr. Chips gave him a hundred lines as punishment. He used to repeat this incident to the son of the first Colley and then to his grandson as a joke.
Faulkner	Faulkner was a student at Brookfield who asked Mr. Chips on April 1st, 1989 if he could take the afternoon off as his parents were coming. then he asked if he could miss chapel too and go to the station to meet them. Mr. Chips agreed to all of this because he didn't really care. He was in sock after his wife and child had died.
Ogilive and Dunster	Ogilive and Dunster were at Brookfield, Dunster had put a rat in the organ-loft while Ogilive was taking choir practice. Ogilive was dead and Dunster drowned at Jutland.
Archer	Archer had some affair about his resignation at Brookkfield.
Rushton	Rushton was a student at Brookfield. He ha been involved in some funny story about a sack of potatoes. Mr. Chips couldn't remember if Rushton went to Burma on a government job or Borneo.
Major Collingwood	Major Collingwood had been a student at Brookfield. Mr. Chips had once thrashed him for climbing up on the gymnasium roof to get a ball out of the gutter. He had won a D.S.O. and was killed in Egypt. His nephew Branksome also went to Brookfield.
Private Stationed	Years after Brookfield played a football match with the poplar boys, a private stationed called on Chips and told him that he had been one of that visiting team. they chatted and had tea. They also talked about Katherine. He told chips that it had been one of the best days of his life and that he was off to France the next day. A month or so later, he was killed in Passchendaele
Halsbury	Halsbury was a lawyer who had become chancellor at eighty-two. He died at the age of ninety-nine.
Naylor	After an energetic performance during which Chips had played Cricket as well as many a fellow of his age, he overheard a boy saying "Not half bad for an old chap like him." That boy was Naylor, who later became a lawyer.
Gribble	gribble was the school butler at Brookfield who retired. He was the last person to remember Chips's wife Katherine at Brookfield.
Chatteris	He was the fourth Principal of Brookfield in chips's time. He succeeded Ralston in 1911 when he was thirty-four and held office for 6 years. He was modern, friendly and sympathetic, and Chips liked him. He considered Chips to be a Brookfield institution. He became ill in winter of 1917 and died in April 1918.
Cricklade	Cricklade was a Brookfield student who was patrolling the lines with his schoolfellows while the railway staff was on strike. e asked Chips what they should do if they met a striker and chips introduced him to a striker he was talking to.
Mr. Jones	Mr. Jones was one of the strikers of the Railway staff. He was in charge of the Signal Box at the railway station when he was on duty.Chips had a conversation with him during the strike.
Grayson	Grayson was a student at Brookfield whose father had sailed on the Titanic. He was generally pretty good in lessons. He was excused from lessons for one day and then news came that his father had been among the rescued. Chips shook his hand and congratulated him, but it was Grayson senor with whom he later condoled.
John Rivers	John Rivers was the chairman of Board of Directors of Brookfield school. He had high respect for Chips. Chips remembered him as a student and that he wasn't very bright and could never use the verbs properly. Rivers was being made a Baronet.
Mrs. Brool	Mrs. Brool served the Tuck Shop t Brookfield until n uncle in Australia left her a lot of money. Her picture was still in the Tuck Shop.
Forrester	Forrester was the smallest new boy Brookfield ad ever seen, four feet high. Chips made a joke abut him joining up the armed forces. He was shot down in flames over Cambrai in 1918
Blades	Blades was the Head of School House, eighteen year old. He was training for a cadet ship.
Buffles	Buffles was commonly called "Roddy" and he was present the night before Chips passed away.
Cartwright	He was the Fifth Head of Brookfield in Chips's time. He took up the Office in 1919 and was present the night before Chips passed away.
Max Staefel	Herr Staefel was a German master of Brookfield who was friends with Mr. Chips. He was thirty years junior to Chips but the two men got on excellently. Chips stayed at his home when he visited Wiesbaden. He was in Germany when the war broke out and he was killed on the Western Front.
Burrow	Burrow was a science master at Brookfield. He was pale, lean and medically unfit. He was nicknamed "stink merchant".
Maynard	Maynard was a chubby, dauntless clever and impudent student of Mr. Chips who interpreted the lesson while an air raid was going on.
Gregson	Gregson was a Brookfield student. He was a tall boy with spectacles and always late for everything. He got a job with the League of nations.
Linford	Linford was the boy who was tricked into calling at Chips's residence the night before he passed away. He was from Shropshire and the first of his family at Brookfield. He had tea with Chips and discussed many things and left at five. He said "Good-bye Mr. Chips" before leaving which stirred up many memories in Chips's mind.

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