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Rev. Augustine Mulliner
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The Rev. Augustine Mulliner is a recurring fictional character from the Mr Mulliner short stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a Mulliner nephew who rose from meek curate to married vicar thanks to the Buck-U-Uppo tonic. Starting as a timid, pale young curate at Lower Briskett-in-the-Midden, he went on to marry his vicar's daughter Jane Brandon (Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo). He became secretary to the Bishop of Stortford ("The Bishop's Move"). Augustine then became the vicar of Walsingford-below-Chiveney-on-Thames ("Gala Night"). His rise through the ranks of the Church of England was partially due to his uncle Wilfred's tonic Buck-U-Uppo. According to N. T. P. Murphy, Augustine is similar to the "pale young curate" Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer. Victoria McLure notes that Augustine endears himself to the reader because he is an underdog among the clerical caste, and because he must fight his prospective father-in-law "to gain enough money and enough respect to marry". He was played by John Alderton in the Wodehouse Playhouse series. 
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