Major Benji Flint

"Quai-hi! Quai-hi damn you!"

- Major Benji's characteristic expression

Major Benjamin 'Benji' Flint is one of the major characters of Mapp and Lucia.

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An old campaigner, avid golfer and soak, fond of ejaculating in Hindustani.

Demands from the Major are often accompanied by the command ‘Quai-hi!’ He spends his evenings poring over his old Indian experiences with a tumbler of whisky and a good fire, is prone to toasting the King, ‘God bless him’, and is full of tales from his days hunting tigers.

The Major’s attitude to Tilling’s women or ‘the fairies’ as he labels them is both gallant and pompous and those in the know might just spot his particular affection for Miss Mapp.