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This blue commemorative plaque records: Percy Jeeves 1888-1916 lived in Manuel Street 1901-1911. Goole Town Cricket Club and Warwickshire County Cricketer, killed on The Somme. Inspiration for P. G. Wodehouse's 'Jeeves'. Recorded plaque organisation: Goole Civic Society, Goole Town Cricket Club, PG Wodehouse Society.

Percy Jeeves was a cricketer who played for Goole Town Cricket Club and Warwickshire County, later inspiring P.G. Wodehouse’s character Jeeves in his novels; he died serving in World War I on the Somme.

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