Charles Stringham

Charles Stringham is a schoolmate and friend of Nick Jenkins. The two do not stay in close contact after leaving prep school, but still run into each other from time to time.

Stringham's last major act in school is to frame Le Bas in the Braddock alias Thorne incident.

Stringham's first marriage is to Peggy Stepney; they divorce, and Peggy marries one of her cousins.

Stringham ends up severely drunk at the annual reunion party held for Le Bas (at the end of The Acceptance World); Jenkins and Kenneth Widmerpool take him home, where he ends up in a comical wrestling match with Widmerpool that causes Nick and eventually Charles to burst out laughing.