<p> Wodehouse mentioned that he primarily based Psmith on Rupert D'Oyly Carte (1876-1948), the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte, as he put it "the only factor in my literary profession which was handed to me on a silver plate with watercress round it". Benny Green presents the theory that Psmith was partially primarily based on Henry Hyndman, an eccentric Victorian