Roderick Spode

Roderick Spode is a minor fictional character from the novels of P. G. Wodehouse.

Spode is an 'amateur dictator' who leads a farcical group of fascists called the Black shorts. He is modeled after Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

He appears in a number of Wodehouse's novels:

• The Code of the Woosters (1937), where Bertie out-wits him with help from Jeeves and the Junior Ganymede Club Book.

• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954), as Lord Sidcup

• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963), again as Lord Sidcup; he gets engaged to Madeline Bassett

• Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)