Ten of the best beards in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named a list of ten of the best beards in literature.One entry on the list:Bertrand WelchThe most obnoxious character in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim is Professor Welch's son Bertrand. He is first encountered "wearing a lemon-yellow sports-coat, all three buttons of which were fastened, and displaying a large beard which came down further on one side than the other".