Claud Sopworth

In the short story The Rajah's Emerald, Claud Sopworth is a young man staying at the Esplanade Hotel in Kimpton-on-Sea with his three sisters Alice, Clara and Dorothy. James Bond hated Claud. After coming to the resort, James's girlfriend Grace had abandoned him to stay at the expensive Esplanade Hotel because her friends the Sopworths were there, leaving him alone in a cheap boarding house. Meanwhile Claud had begun to pay attention to Grace and Grace had been accepting them. James felt that Claud was a person of no moral worth whatsoever. He was always expensively and "beautifully dressed as the hero in a music hall comedy".