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In P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, Tom Travers (Thomas Portarlington Travers) is the husband of Aunt Dahlia and the uncle of Bertie Wooster. Travers, known to Bertie as Uncle Tom, reluctantly funded his wife's rarely-profitable magazine Milady's Boudoir, which he always called "Madame's Nightshirt". Milady's Boudoir was eventually sold onto a newspaper and magazine owner from Liverpool called Lemuel Trotter.

Uncle Tom is cranky and unlikely to part with his money, much to Aunt Dahlia's chagrin. She describes him howling over for weeks after paying his income taxes. He also suffers from notoriously bad digestion problems that only the cooking of his French chef Anatole can allay his indigestion.

Uncle Tom's worst enemy is Sir Watkyn Bassett, the prominent, foul, twisted toad of Totleigh Towers and ex-magistrate of Totleigh-in-the-Wold. Sir Watkyn, who fined Bertie Wooster five pounds for stealing a policeman's helmet on Oxford University boat race night, is also a rival collector of silver.

This rivalry is demonstrated in Jeeves Saves The Cow-Creamer 1991, when Bertie is sent by his Aunt Dahlia to buy a rare eighteenth century cow creamer, (A cow shaped cream jug) for Tom, before it is acquired by Sir Watkyn Bassett. However when Bertie is carrying out Jeeves's plan, which is to tell the shop keeper that the cow-creamer is of modern Dutch origin, Bertie trips over the shop keeper's cat whilst attempting to read the hallmark on the base of the creamer in the better light out-side. He is then challenged by Roderick Spode and Sir Watkyn Bassett thinking that he is attempting to make off with it in a burglarious manner, and is chased by a police officer leaving Sir Watkyn Bassett to buy the cow-creamer.

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