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"The Noble Farmers"-- The Russells, the Keppels, Rockingham and Egremont and Coke

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Noblemen who concerned themselves personally with agriculture. Rockhill predicts Lynton will join their ranks.

*ADAM, Major General B.

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Lynton's 52nd. Regiment served in his brigade at Waterloo. Major Adam commanded a brigade in the 2nd. division under Clinton in the Second Corps under Hill.

*ALEXANDER I, Tsar of Russia

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Sister: Grand duchess Catherine of Oldenburg

A participant in the Procession of Allied Sovereigns viewed by the Lyntons and their guests. While in London at this event, the Tsar had his portrait done by Mr. Lawrence, a neighbour of the Chawleighs, and Lydia went to see The Cossack, the Tsar's bodyguard, waiting outside Mr. Lawrence's home.

*ALTEN, Lt. General Baron Charles

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Wounded at Waterloo, Adam mentions him to the engagement party guests. He was the commander of the 3rd. division of the First Corps which was commanded by William,Prince of Orange.

*BATHURST, Lord Henry (3rd. Earl of Bathurst)

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The Secretary for War and the Colonies. He is mentioned as bringing young officers with dispatches to the Prince Regent.

*BERESFORD, Marshal William Carr

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Lynton becomes angry hearing people comparing the Portuguese troops to the Dutch-Belgian forces.

*BLUCHER, Field-Marshal Gebhard von (Prince von Wahlstatt)(1742-1819)

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Commander-in Chief of the Prussian army.

*BONAPARTE, Emperor Napoleon (1769-1821)

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Nickname: Boney

Napoleon's escape from Elba results in the final battle of Waterloo which is the climax of the novel.

*Boney

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See: BONAPARTE, Napoleon

*BROUGHAM, Baron Henry Peter

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A British statesman and advisor to Princess Caroline of Wales (later her chief attorney) At the Lyntons' assembly, guests wondered if Princess Charlotte had been returned to her father by force or if Brougham had advised her to yield.

*BRUMMELL, George Bryan (1778-1840)

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Jenny had been surprised to have such a plainly dressed gentleman pointed out to her as the great fashion leader, Beau Brummell, at Lady Nassington's party.

*BYRON, Lord George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Baron Byron. (1788-1824)

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Poet not much appreciated by Jenny and Lynton. Jenny preferred the unnamed author of Sense and Sensibility.

*CAROLINE, Princess of Wales.

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Husband:The Prince Regent (estranged)

Daughter: Princess Charlotte.

She causes a stir at the opera when Jenny, Adam and Lydia attend.

*CASTLEREAGH, Viscountess

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(née Lady Emily Hobart)

Husband: Viscount Castlereagh (Robert Stewart)

Party guest of Lady Nassington and a patroness of Almacks. She approves of Jenny's behavior when Julia faints and makes plans to make a morning visit to the Lyntons.

*CATALINI, Madame Angelica

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A famous opera singer of the time. It was thought at the Lyntons' party that not even Catalini could have scored a bigger hit than Miss Mercer Elphinstone.

*CHARLOTTE, Princess (1796-1817)

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Father: Prince George of Wales, The Prince Regent

Mother: Princess Caroline of Wales

Daughter of George, Prince of Wales and Caroline of Brunswick; wife of Leopold, Prince of Saxe-Coburg; died in childbirth November 6, 1817.

Her resistance to her planned marriage to William, Prince of Orange and her "escape" from her home at Warwick House to her mother's home in Connaught Place is a topic of interest at the Lyntons' first house party. She later married Prince Leopard of Saxe-Coburg and died in childbirth.

*CHARLOTTE, Queen

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Husband: King George III.

Sons: George, The Prince Regent, Prince Frederick, Duke of York, Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex and others

Daughter: Princess Mary and others

The Queen spoke kindly to Jenny at her royal presentation.

*CLAUDE Lorrain (1600-1682)

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French landscape artist. Two elderly men were arguing over Turner versus Claud in Brooks' while Lynton was nervously awaiting the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo.

*CLINTON, Lt. General Sir Henry.

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Lynton's former regiment, the 52nd under Major General Adam's brigade fought at Waterloo.

Adam's brigade was part of the 2nd division commanded by Clinton under the Second Corps commander Lt. General Lord Hill.

*COCHRANE, Captain Sir Thomas, Lord Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald.

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His trial was a topic of conversation at the party Jenny arranged to view the Procession of Allied Sovereigns. Cochrane was a controversial naval officer who made many political enemies. He eventually was implicated in a financial scandal, tried, imprisoned, dismissed from the navy and stripped of his knighthood.

*COKE, Mr. Thomas (later Earl of Leicester)

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A famous agriculturist whom Lynton visits in Norfolk to learn more about farming his land. Mr. Coke was a friend of The fourth Viscount Lynton, Adam's grandfather.

*COLBORNE, Colonel Sir John

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Lynton's superior officer when he was Captain Deveril, he still led the 52nd. regiment at Waterloo.

*COOKE, Major General George

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Wounded at Waterloo, Adam mentions him to the engagement party guests. He commanded the 1st. division of the First Corps under William, Prince of Orange.

*COWPER, Countess Lady (née The Honourable Miss Emily Lamb)

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Almacks patroness present in room when Julia faints at the Nassingtons'. She was first married to The Fifth Earl of Cowper and secondly to the 3rd. Lord Palmerston who was to become Prime Minister.

*CROFT, Dr.

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An accoucheur (obstetrician) who Mr. Chawleigh insists on engaging to take care of Jenny. Jenny does very poorly under his insistence on a reducing diet. According to Hodge's biography of Heyer, Croft's dietary restrictions were partially to blame for the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth the years to come after the novel. He committed suicide over accusations of neglect of the Princess.

*D'ANGOULEME, Duc (Louis XIX 1830)

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The Lyntons and others heard news that the Duc had led an unsuccessful insurrection at Nimes and was defeated by Marshal Grouchy. His wife was a daughter of Louis XVI.

*DEVONSHIRE, Duke of

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Another guest at the fete honouring the Duke of Wellington, which Lord and Lady Lynton attended.

*Douro

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See: WELLINGTON, Duke of

*DRUMMOND-BURRELL, Mrs. Peter (née The Honourable Miss Clementina Sarah Drummond)

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Patroness of Almacks and a party guest of Lady Nassington who looks coldly at Jenny. Married to Peter Robert Burrell (who joined his family name to hers). They later became Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby.

*ELDON, Lord Chancellor

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At the Lyntons' assembly, everyone wanted to know from Miss Elphinstone if the Princess Charlotte and her mother, Princess Caroline had refused him admittance after the Princess fled from Warwick House to Connaught Place, her mother's home.

*ETHELBALD, King (King of Mercia 716-757)

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He was the founder of Croyland Abbey, near Fontley Priory, in 716. The ruins of this abbey were visited by Kilverleys, Julia Oversley, and Lord Rockhill.

*FREDERICK William III, King of Prussia

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Participant in the Procession of Allied Sovereigns viewed by the Lyntons and their guests.

*GEORGE, Prince of Wales

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Prince of Wales,--Prince Regent

Father: King George III

Mother: Queen Charlotte

Wife: Princess Caroline of Wales

Daughter: Princess Charlotte of Wales

Brothers: Prince Frederick, Duke of York, Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex and others.

Sister: Princess Mary and others

A friend of Bardolph Deveril. He spoke kindly to Jenny at the her presentation.

*GRAHAM, Thomas (Baron Lynedoch)

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Graham commanded the British troops in an expedition to Holland to cooperate with Bulow's Prussian troops against Antwerp. Although, the battle was won, a campaign against the fortress at Bergen-0p-Zoom failed leading Wellington to comment that night attacks against good troops seldom succeeded. Lynton and his friend, Lord Brough, discuss Graham and the mull he made at Bergen-op-Zoom before the Lyntons' wedding.

*GRASSINI, Madame Giuseppina

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A singer at an opera attended by Jenny, Adam and Lydia. The Princess of Wales attends the same opera and causes a stir. One of Grassini"s lovers was Napoleon.

*GRENVILLE, Lord William

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A political leader Adam fears is "wavering" in his support of Wellington, but eventually supports the coalition. Grenville was a former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.

*GREY, Lord

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A Whig political leader opposed to Wellington and the Tory party policies, Lynton votes against him in the House of Lords. While Adam is awaiting word of the Battle of Waterloo at Brook's, Lord Grey "proves" to an audience of listeners that Napoleon was, at that very time, established in Brussels.

*GROUCHY, Marshal Count Emmanuel de

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Word reached the Deveril family and Mr. Chawleigh that Grouchy had put down an insurrection, led by the Duc d'Angouleme, at Nimes. He commanded the reserve cavalry of the Sixth Corps at Waterloo.

*HALKETT, Major General Sir Colin

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Wounded at Waterloo, Viscount Lynton mentions him to the engagement party guests. He commanded a brigade in the 3rd. division, commanded by Alten in the First Corps under William, Prince of Orange at Waterloo.

*HILL, General Viscount Rowland

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Vernon Beamish's commanding officer at Waterloo. At Lydia's engagement party, Lynton is able to ease The Adversanes' fears, by telling them Hill's corps did not appear to be in the thick of the Battle of Waterloo. He was commander of the Second Corps.

*JERSEY, Countess of (Sarah Sophia "Sally" née Fane) (1786-1867)

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Party guest of Lady Nassington who thinks Jenny looks stupid and begs Lady Castlereagh not to send her vouchers to Almacks. But she says she will not cut her socially.

*JORDAN, Mrs.

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Actress of the time and the mistress of William, Duke of Clarence. Lydia imagined she and other famous actresses would retire when she took the town by storm as an actress.

*JOSEPHINE, Empress

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Napoleon's first wife (divorced). Lady Nassington's party guests discuss her death from a putrid sore throat.

*KEAN, Edmund (Nov. 4. 1787-May 15, 1833)

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Admired by Lydia Deveril. Mr. Chawleigh took Lydia Deveril to the Drury Lane theatre to see Kean in Hamlet, Othello and Riches.

*KNIGHTON, Sir William

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Physician to Prince Regent. Recommended by Lady Nassington to see Jenny after Dr Croft's prescribed diet makes her faint. He recommends Jenny eat more heartily and go live in the country.

*LAMB, William

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The younger son of Lord and Lady Melbourne. Lord Oversley remarks, with "ill-concealed pride", that his daughter, Julia, had more nicknames than "poor William Lamb's wife". He is referring to Lady Caroline Lamb, an eccentric beauty who shocked the regency world with her affair with Lord Byron.

*LAWRENCE, Mr. Thomas (later, Sir Thomas Lawrence, knighted in 1815)

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Foremost portrait artist of the time, he was a neighbour of the Chawleighs. His prices were too high for Mr. Chawleigh to commission him to do a portrait of Jenny. Lawrence succeeded Joshua Reynolds as principal painter to the court of King George III in 1792.

*LOUIS XVIII

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Recently acknowledged King of France, whose entry into London drew attention away from Adam and Jenny's wedding.

*MARCH, Earl of (and Darnley) Charles Gordon-Lennox

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Heir to the 5th Duke of Richmond & Lennox. ADC to William, Prince of Orange and later to the Duke of Wellington. He was an army friend of Lynton's, Viscount Lynton rejoices to hear March recovered from a severe wound received at Orthes.

*MARIE LOUISE, Empress

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Napoleon's second wife and mother of his son. Reports reached the Deveril and Chawleigh families about her separation from Napoleon by her father.

*MARMONT, Marshal Auguste

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Mr. Chawleigh and Lynton compare Marmont and Napoleon just before the Battle of Waterloo.

*MARY, Princess

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Father: King George III

Mother: Queen Charlotte

Brothers: Prince George of Wales, Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex Prince Frederick, Duke of York and others.

A guest at a fete in honour of the Duke of Wellington, attended by the Lyntons.

*MASSENA, Marshal Andre

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The Lyntons hear Massena failed to intercept Napoleon when he marched toward Paris after his escape from Elba.

*MONSIEUR

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King Louis VIII's brother. The Lyntons hear Soult has proposed a large force under Monsieur's command in the South of France to halt Napoleon's march toward Paris after his escape from Elba. The troops deserted to Napoleon's side.

*NALDI, Giuseppe

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A singer at a party Jenny attended, he was well known on the London stage at the time.

*NEY, Marshal Michel (Prince of Moskowa)

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The Lyntons hear he renounced allegiance to King Louis and took his troops to Napoleon's side.

*OLDENBURG, Grandduchess Catherine

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Brother: Tsar Alexander I.

Widowed and visiting London with her brother; she was looking for a new husband. Also, she managed to annoy both her own and the British governments by her behavior. She befriended Caroline, Princess of Wales and the Princess Charlotte and interfered with planned engagement of Princess Charlotte and Prince William of Orange. She also attended the banquet of the Guildhall after the Procession of Allied Sovereigns although she was not invited. Mr. Chawleigh thought she took attention away from the marriage of Jenny and Adam, Viscount Lynton.

*PAKENHAM, General Sir Edward

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An army officer in the Peninsula while Lynton served, Lynton was sorry to hear of his death at the Battle of New Orleans, January, 1815. He was a brother-in-law of Wellington's.

*PICTON, Lt. General Sir Thomas

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Officer killed at Waterloo, Lynton brings word of his death to guests at the engagement party. Picton's two brigades numbering 3000 men held against 12,000 French soldiers. Picton was shot and killed just after he ordered an advance and his men continued the attack.

*PLATOFF (or Platov), General Matvei Ivanovich

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A participant in the Procession of Allied Sovereigns. Mrs. Usselby thought she recognized him. He was the leader of the Cossacks in Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign.

*ROWAN, Major

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Described the Brunswickers, who had joined the Allied Armies in France, as mere children.

*SMITH, Major Harry

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An army acquaintance of Adam's. Adam says people used to say he had as many lucky escapes as Smith.

*SOMERSET, Lord Fitzroy

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The English Charge d'Affaires in Paris while Wellington was in Vienna for the Congress of Vienna. The Lyntons hear he and King Louis had to leave Paris in haste due to the approach of Napoleon after Napoleon escaped Elba.

*SOULT, Marshal Nicolas, Duke of Dalmatia

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Napoleon's Chief of Staff at the Battle of Waterloo. Lynton and Brough have a discussion about him and the Peninsular campaign just prior to Lynton's marriage.

*SOUTHEY, Mr. Robert (1774 -- 1843 )

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Life of Nelson is a book appreciated by Jenny and Adam.

*SUSSEX, Duke of, Prince Augustus

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Father: King George III

Mother: Queen Charlotte

Brothers: Prince George, Prince Regent, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and others

Sister: Princess Mary and others

He advised Princess Charlotte to return to her father's (the Prince Regent) custody. The Lyntons' party guests discussed this matter.

*TURNER, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851)

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English landscape artist. Two elderly men were arguing over Turner versus Claud in Brooks' while Lynton was nervously awaiting the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo.

*WELLINGTON, Duke of (Arthur Wellesley) (1769-1852)

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Nickname: Douro

British general. Commander of the allied armies in the Peninsular Wars and victor of the Battle of Waterloo where Napoleon was defeated.. The Duke of Wellington was later Prime Minister of England and the foreign secretary.

Much admired by Viscount Lynton.

*WILLIAM, Prince of Orange

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Nickname: Slender Billy

An Army acquaintance of Adam and the one time fiancé of Princess Charlotte. He was mentioned as being wounded at Waterloo by Adam at the end of the engagement party.

*YORK, Duke of, Prince Frederick

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Father: King George III

Mother: Queen Charlotte

Brothers: Prince George of Wales, Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex and others

Sister: Princess Mary and others

He and the Bishop of Salisbury were kept waiting in Connaught House by Princess Charlotte and Princess Caroline after Princess Charlotte's flight from Warwick House--a topic of great interest at the Lyntons' assembly.

?*CAMPBELL

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Furniture maker to the Prince Regent, Duke of York and Mr. Chawleigh. He designed the Egyptian style furniture with which Mr. Chawleigh furnished the Lyntons' townhouse, much to the Deveril family's horror.

?*ELPHINSTONE, Miss Mercer

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Princess Charlotte's close friend and guest at the Lynton's first assembly. She gives distinction to the party because of her knowledge of the Princess' conflict with the Prince Regent over her engagement.

?*KELLY, Miss

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Actress of the time. Lydia imagined she would retire when she took the town by storm as an actress.

?*MELLON, Miss

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Actress of the time. Lydia imagined she would retire when she took the town by storm as an actress.

?*WESTMACOTT

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Artist who created the statue of the Fifth Duke of Bedford standing in Russell Square where the Chawleighs and Mr. Lawrence live.

?*WILSON, Sir Robert

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While Adam is awaiting word of the Battle of Waterloo at Brook's, Sir Robert Wilson reads a letter "confirming" the Allied Army had evacuated Brussels. References have been found to a General Sir Robert Wilson, a British Attache to the Russian army during Napoleon's Russian campaign and a Sir Robert Wilson, author of "History of the British Expedition to Egypt" but it is unknown if this is the same Sir Robert Wilson.

TILFORD, Dr.

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Physician to the Deveril family.

TIVERTON , Miss Elizabeth (?) (Lizzie)

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Friend and bridesmaid to Jenny, Lady Lynton.

TOLLERTON, Mr.

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A party guest who fetches Lady Oversley when Julia faints At Lady Nassington's party.

TOM

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The child of a Fontley Priory tenant who has whooping cough.

TREGONY, Sir Torquil. Baronet.

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An "elderly" suitor of Lydia's in Bath. She encourages his suit because the Dowager Lady Lynton thinks him very eligible (he is "Fabulously wealthy") and allows him to escort them to Assemblies. He is about 40 years old.

TWITCHAM:

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Groom to Lyntons at Fontley Priory.

Unattainable, The

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See: OVERSLEY, The Honourable Miss Julia

USSELBY, Mrs.

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An old school friend of Jenny's who is happy to be reacquainted with Jenny now that she is Lady Lynton.

USSELBY, Mr.

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He and his wife are guests of the Lyntons at the Procession of Allied Sovereigns

WARLINGHAM, Lady

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Brother: The Marquis of Rockhill.

WICKEN

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Head gardener at Fontley Priory.

WIMMERING, Mr.

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Viscount Lynton's man of business. He is the first to put the idea of marrying an heiress into Adam's head.

WINSOR, Mr.

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Owner of the Light and Heat Company, maker of patent lamps and gas heaters. Mr. Chawleigh is a major investor in his company.

WRANGLE, Dr.

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Physician to the Chawleigh family.

Zephyr

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See: OVERSLEY, The Honourable Julia

Hoare’s

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Mr. Chawleigh's bank

Jenny

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See: LYNTON, Viscountess

JOHN Coachman

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The Lyntons' coachman

KECKWICK, Miss

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Lydia Deveril's former governess

KILVERLY

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Visits Fontley Priory with Julia Oversley, his sister, Mary and Rockhill after visiting Croyland Abbey.

KILVERLY, Miss Mary

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Friend of Julia Oversley, visits Fontley Priory accompanied by her brother, Julia and Rockhill after visiting Croyland Abbey.

KINVER

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Viscount Lynton's valet.

LANGTON, Captain.

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A visitor to Fontley in October, 1814, he is an old army friend of Adam's He thinks Jenny would have made a famous wife for a soldier because she entertains them so well.

LEICESTER, Earl of

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A relative on the distaff side, Mr. Coke inherited Holkham from him.

LOVELACE, Lydia

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Lydia Deveril's proposed stage name when she plans to become an actress and save the family home, Fontley Priory..

LYNTON, The Dowager Viscountess (Blanche Deveril)

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Husband: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril, deceased)

Sons: Adam, Viscount Lynton and Stephen Deveril, (deceased)

Daughters, Mrs. Lambert Ryde (Charlotte), Lydia Deveril and Maria Deveril (deceased)

The dowager Viscountess, with a plaintive voice and a martyr-like air, loves to make her children feel guilty and is always considerate of her own comfort. She deplores Jenny's middle class status and finds Jenny's father too vulgar.

LYNTON, The fourth Viscount. (Giles Deveril, deceased)

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Son: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril)

Grandson: The Sixth Viscount Lynton (Adam Deveril)

He was a friend of Mr. Coke.

LYNTON, Viscount. Adam Deveril

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LYNTON, Viscount. Adam Deveril

Father: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril, deceased)

Mother: The Dowager Viscountess Lynton (Blanche Deveril)

Brother: Stephen Deveril (deceased)

Sisters: Mrs Lambert Ryde (Charlotte), The Honourable Lydia Deveril and Maria Deveril (deceased)

Wife: Viscountess Lynton (Jane nicknamed Jenny)

Adam Deveril, age 26, ( School--Harrow Club--Brooks ) having recently inherited the title of Viscount Lynton, has sold out of the army (the 52nd. Regiment) to take possession of his bankrupt estate, Fontley Priory. In order to prevent the loss of his family's ancestral home, he renounces his love for Julia Oversley and makes an arrangement to marry Jenny Chawleigh, the daughter of a wealthy Cit. He is man with a great sense of duty and honour and also introspective. Adam, unaware of the depth of Jenny's feelings for him, does his best as a husband to her, but is often dismayed by her father and the differences in their fortunes. The book takes place in the seventeen leading up to the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon, Wellington and most of the major historical figures of the day are seen through the eyes of Lynton and his family.

LYNTON, Viscount. Bardolph Deveril (deceased, possible suicide, January 1814): the fifth Viscount Lynton,

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Nickname: Bardy

Wife: The Dowager Viscountess Lynton (Blanche Deveril)

Sons: Adam, Lord Lynton and Stephen Deveril (deceased)

Daughters: Mrs. Lambert Ryde (Charlotte), Lydia Deveril and Maria (deceased)

Bluff and good natured, he was apparently more interested in being with his good friend The Prince Regent and his cronies than he was in his family. He died in a suspicious hunting accident leaving his estates heavily mortgaged.

LYNTON, Viscountess {née Jane Chawleigh}

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Familial Nickname: "Jenny"

Familial Nickname: "Jenny"

Husband: Viscount Lynton (Adam Deveril)

Father: Jonathan Chawleigh

Mother: Mary Chawleigh (deceased)

Son: The Honourable Giles-Jonathan Deveril

Shy and plain, Jenny has loved Adam since she met him at Julia Oversley's home some years before. She married Adam, knowing he loves Julia, because she realizes Adam desperately needs her money to save Fontley and she wants to help him. She is able to conceal her feelings and others often wrongly think her insensitive. She is very perceptive. She doesn't make her feelings known to Adam because she realizes it would make him uncomfortable. But, she is very capable, sensible, and reliable, a sharp contrast to the emotional, flighty Julia.

Memory Man

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An entertaining lecturer Jenny and Mrs. Usselby go to hear.

MITCHAM, Mrs.

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A past guest at Fontley who arrived "only to be ill and forever wanting glasses of hot water, or thin gruel!" Lydia asks The Dowager Lady Lynton not to act like her at the Lyntons' townhouse on their first visit to the Lyntons.

NASSINGTON, Earl of

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Wife: Lady Nassington

A meek man with a "spare frame" and a "harassed mien". A Tory, he sponsored Lynton in the House of Lords .

NASSINGTON, Countess of

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Husband: The Earl of Nassington

Brother: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril, deceased)

Aunt:Viscount Lynton, Mrs. Lambert Ryde (Charlotte), The Honourable

Lydia Deveril.

Sons: Osbert, and 2 other elder sons

The formidable, outspoken Lady Nassington undertakes turning Jenny into a "Lady of Quality", presents Jenny at court and introduces her to the ton at a party. She emphatically approves of the Lyntons' marriage. Jenny thought her meeting Mr. Chawleigh would be a "Battle of the Titans".

OSBERT: The Honourable (family name not specified)

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Father: The Earl of Nassington

Mother: The Countess of Nassington

Cousin: Adam, Lord Lynton

Offered as a groomsman to Adam, his cousin. Talks to Jenny of hunting at a family dinner at Fontley.

OVERSLEY, Lady (Dorothea)

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Husband: Lord Oversley

Son: The Honourable Charles Oversley

Daughters: The Honourable Julia and Susan

Several unnamed children

She feels very sorry for Julia's distress at Adam's marriage, but she is a friend to Adam and Jenny and gives Adam social advice.

OVERSLEY, Lord (Viscount?)

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Wife: Lady Oversley (Dorothea)

Son: The Honourable Charles Oversley

Daughters: The Honourable Julia and Susan

Several unnamed children

He introduces Jonathan Chawleigh to Adam. He was under an obligation to Mr. Chawleigh and repaid it by having Jenny visit his house where she might meet "the nobs" as Mr. Chawleigh puts it. It was at his house in Mount Street, several years before the novel began,where Jenny first met and fell in love with Adam, although Adam did not remember the meeting.

OVERSLEY, The Honourable Julia

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Suitors' nicknames: Sylph, Zephyr, Sprite, The Unattainable

Father: Lord Oversley

Mother: Lady Oversley (Dorothea)

Brother: The Honourable Charles Oversley

Sister: The Honourable Susan Oversley

Beautiful Julia is an old school friend of Jenny's. Because an admirer called her "The Unattainable ", she convinced herself she was pledged to a gallant soldier. She believes is in love with Viscount Lynton and thinks she is heart-broken when he marries Jenny. The feelings she and Adam had for each other create stress in Adam and Jenny's marriage. Julia needs a lot of admiring attention and can be difficult if she doesn't get it. She lives constantly in alt, in contrast to placid, sensible Jenny, which can make her an exhausting companion.

OVERSLEY, The Honourable Miss Susan

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Father: Lord Oversley

Mother: Lady Oversley (Dorothea)

Brother: The Honourable Charles Oversley

Sister: The Honourable Julia Oversley

Next younger sister of Julia Oversley (one of several younger brothers and sisters).

OVERSLEY, The Honourable Mr. Charles

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Familial nickname: Charlie

Father: Lord Oversley

Mother: Lady Oversley (Dorothea)

Sisters: The Honourable Misses Julia and Susan and others.

PAPWORTH, Mrs.

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An old acquaintance of the Dowager Lady Lynton residing in Bath. The Dowager is planning to ask her to reside with her because, as Lydia says, "She toad-eats Mama" and is just like Mrs. Quarley-Bix.

PINHOE, Martha

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Former nurse and now lady's maid to Jenny.

POOLSTOCK, Miss

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Dresser to the dowager Lady Lynton.

PORTH, Mrs.

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She is a "friend" to Lord Ashcott. Julia uses their example to try to convince Adam that Jenny would not mind if they were more than friends.

PURLEY, Dr.

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Accoucheur (obstetrician) recommended by Sir William Knighton to attend Jenny at Fontley Priory.

QUARLEY-BIX, Mrs.

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Companion and chaperone to Jenny. She is a "toad-eater" and Jenny suspects her of feathering her nest by encouraging her to buy at certain stores.

QUARM, Alderman Ned (deceased)

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A recently deceased London Alderman. Mr. Chawleigh tells Lynton he might be elected to his position.

RIDGEHILL, Mrs.

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Lodge keeper at the gatehouse of Fontley, she is the first to welcome Jenny to Fontley Priory

ROCK

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See: ROCKHILL, Marquis of

ROCKHILL, Marquis of (family name-Edgecott)

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Nickname: Rock

Daughters: Ladies Sarah and Elizabeth Edgecott

Sister: Lady Warlingham

Uncle: Lord Aubrey Edgecott

A suitor and later husband to Julia Oversley. First seen as guest at Lady Nassington's party introducing Jenny to the ton. He is well aware of Julia's love for Adam, but doesn't take it seriously. He has an ironic way about him and often makes others nervous about him, thinking he is making fun of them, Jenny among this number. He is one of the few people to realize how perceptive Jenny is. He makes it clear to Jenny that Julia and Adam will realize they were unsuited if they are in each others company often. Jenny then realizes she has an ally. He is related to Lady Adversane and so is a cousin to Brough. We never learn his Christian name.

ROSSETTS

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Family being visited by The Marquis and Marchioness of Rockhill after Lydia's engagement party.

RUSSELL, Lord William

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Army friend of Viscount Lynton. Lynton is able to meet with him briefly when he brings home a dispatch from Toulouse and get news of their mutual friends..

RYDE, Charles Lambert Stephen Bardolph (born June 22, 1815)

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Son of Charlotte and Lambert Ryde.

RYDE, Lambert:

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Wife: Mrs. Lambert Ryde (née The Honourable Miss Charlotte Deveril)

Son: Charles Lambert Stephen Bardolph Ryde

Neighbour of Deverils, he is a young man whose constant cheerfulness

can annoy the Deverils. Although beautiful Charlotte had opportunities to marry higher born suitors, she and Lambert were in love and were allowed to marry after the death of her father, Viscount Lynton (Bardolph).

RYDE, Mrs. Lambert (née The Honourable Charlotte Deveril)

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Husband: Lambert Ryde

Son: Charles Lambert Stephen Bardolph Ryde

Mother: The Dowager Countess Lynton (Blanche Deveril)

Father: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril) (deceased)

Brothers: Adam, Lord Lynton and Stephen Deveril (deceased)

Sisters: The Honourable Lydia Deveril and Maria (deceased)..

Charlotte is Adam's beautiful, but humorless sister who has a tendency to explain the obvious. Her kind-hearted attempts to become closer to Jenny often come out sounding like criticisms. She had opportunities to marry higher born suitors, but she is in love with Lambert Ryde and is

permitted to marry him after the death of the fifth Viscount Lynton.

SALISBURY, Bishop of

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The Lyntons' party guests discussed how he and the Duke of York were kept waiting by Princess Charlotte and Princess Caroline after Princess Charlotte's flight from Warwick House.

SATTERLEIGH, Miss

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Lady Lynton's former school mistress. Jenny met Julia Oversley at Miss Satterleigh's Academy.

SCHOLES, Mr.

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Cook at London townhouse of Adam and Jenny. He is induced to come work at Fontley with a higher salary because the Fontley cook was so poor, Jenny worried about Adam eating enough.

Schweitzer & Davidson

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Tailors patronized by Bardolph Deveril, the Fifth Viscount Lynton. He died owing them an amount in four figures.

SIDFORD, William

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Bailiff at Fontley Priory.

Slender Billy

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See: WILLIAM, Prince of Orange

Sprite

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See: OVERSLEY, The Honourable Miss Julia

STICKNEY, Mr.

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An employee of Mr. Chawleigh and a go-between for Mr. Chawleigh in purchasing the Lynton's London townhouse for Jenny and Adam.

Sylph

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See: OVERSLEY, The Honourable Julia

ADVERSANE, Countess of

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Husband: The Earl of Adversane

Sons: Viscount Brough (Timothy Beamish) and The Honourable Vernon Beamish

Lady Adversane is kind to Jenny at the Nassington's party

ADVERSANE, Earl of

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Wife: The Countess of Adversane

Sons: Viscount Brough (Timothy Beamish) and The Honourable Vernon Beamish

Lord Adversane believes Lydia is "sound as a roast"

ASHCOTT, Lady

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Husband: Lord Ashcott

Lady Ashcott is rumored to have found consolation for her husband's "friendship" with another lady.

ASHCOTT, Lord

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Wife: Lady Ashcott

A "friend" of Mrs. Porth. Julia Oversley uses the friendship of Lord Ashcott and Mrs. Porth to suggest to Lynton they might become similar friends.

AUGUSTA

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A cousin of the Deverils who doesn't like marquetry.

BADGER

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Mr. Chawleigh's valet.

BAILLIE, Dr.

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The Oversleys' physician.

Bardy

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See: LYNTON, The Fifth Viscount Bardolph

BEAMISH, The Honourable Vernon

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Father: The Earl of Adversane

Mother: The Countess of Adversane

Brother: Viscount Brough (Timothy Beamish)

Currently serving in Adam's old regiment in the Peninsula.

BECKENHURST

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Oversleys' country seat, just north of Peterborough near Fontley Priory

BETSY

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The daughter of a Fontley Priory tenant who is a milliner's apprentice in Lincoln.

BICKERTONS

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Family whose party Lydia, Adam and Aunt Nassington attended.

BRIDESTOW, Lady (Aunt Bridestow)

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The Dowager Viscountess Lynton's sister who lives in Bath. The Dowager decides to go live in Bath, as well after the death of her husband.

BRIDGEWATER, Lady

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Jenny attends her assembly after Lady Nassington's at which Julia fainted. Jenny has warned Julia not to faint at this assembly because Adam would be present and they want to quell gossip.

BROUGH, Viscount, (Timothy Beamish)

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Father: The Earl of Adversane

Mother: The Countess of Adversane

Brother: The Honourable Vernon Beamish

An old school friend of Adam's, he is Adam's groomsman at the

wedding. He meets and falls in love with Lydia Deveril. Their engagement party, June 21, 1815, is the climax of the novel.

BUTTERBANK, Mr.

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Chawleighs' majestic butler

CHAWLEIGH, Eliza

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An aunt of Jenny's who died when she was a little girl. She was mentioned when Adam asked Jenny if she had any relations to keep her company--she hadn't.

CHAWLEIGH, Jane

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See: LYNTON, Viscountess of

CHAWLEIGH, Jonathan

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Wife: Mary Chawleigh (deceased)

Daughter: Lady Lynton (Jenny).

He and his late wife thought to see Jenny married to Lord and he worked to make that dream come true. He is a very wealthy Cit with a forceful, overbearing personality and with terrible taste in decorating and clothing, but he is a loving, generous (sometimes overly generous) father. He had earlier helped Lord Oversley in a difficult financial position. Lord Oversley repaid him by having Jenny visit his house where she could meet "the nobs".

CHAWLEIGH, Mary (deceased)

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Husband: Jonathan

Daughter: Lady Lynton (Jenny)

Her home was in Shropshire.

COSSACK, The

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The Tsar's bodyguard who stayed outside Mr. Lawrence's house while the Tsar had his portrait taken. Lydia visited Mr. Chawleigh's when she could see him.

CRAPAUD, Johnny

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A generic (and derogatory) name for French soldiers.

DAWES, Mrs.

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Housekeeper at Fontley. She is contemptuous of Jenny.

DEVERIL, Adam

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See: LYNTON, Viscount

DEVERIL, Bardolph

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See: LYNTON, The Fifth Viscount

DEVERIL, Blanche

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See: LYNTON, The Dowager Viscountess

DEVERIL, Jane

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See: LYNTON, Viscountess

DEVERIL, Orlando

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Lynton's cavalier ancestor. Julia finds him very romantic but Adam refers to him as a chucklehead since he got his troop cut to pieces in its' first engagement.

DEVERIL, The Honourable Charlotte

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See: RYDE, Mrs. Lambert

DEVERIL, The Honourable Giles-Jonathan (born March, 1815)

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Son of Adam and Jenny.

DEVERIL, The Honourable Lydia

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Father: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril, deceased)

Mother: The Dowager Viscountess Lynton (Blanche Deveril)

Brothers: Adam, Viscount Lynton and Stephen Deveril (deceased)

Sisters: Mrs. Lambert Ryde (Charlotte) and Maria (deceased)

Romantic Lydia, 17 years old, is at first planning to save the family home by either marrying a rich elderly man (and giving his money to Adam) or becoming an actress. She is at first determined to hate Jenny because, in her eyes, Jenny spoiled Adam's romance with Julia. However, she quickly comes to change her mind and become close friends with Jenny.

DEVERIL, The Honourable Maria (deceased, age 6 )

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Father: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril, deceased)

Mother: The Dowager Viscountess Lynton (Blanche Deveril)

Brothers: Adam, Viscount Lynton and Stephen Deveril (deceased)

Sisters: Mrs. Lambert Ryde (Charlotte) and The Honourable Lydia Deveril

DEVERIL, The Honourable Stephen (deceased).

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Father: The Fifth Viscount Lynton (Bardolph Deveril, deceased)

Mother: The Dowager Viscountess Lynton (Blanche Deveril)

Brother: Adam, Viscount Lynton

Sisters: Mrs. Lambert Ryde (Charlotte), The Honourable Lydia Deveril and Maria (deceased)

He was apparently a wild young man until he died while at Oxford.

DRUMMOND, Mr. Charles

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Viscount Lynton's banker of the Drummonds' bank.

DUNSTER:

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Butler at Fontley Priory

EDGECOTT, Lady Elizabeth

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Father: The Marquis of Rockhill

She visits Fontley with her father and stepmother

EDGECOTT, Lady Sarah

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Father: The Marquis of Rockhill

She visits Fontley with her father and stepmother

EDGECOTT, Lord Aubrey

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Nephew: The Marquis of Rockhill

He is "sulky as a bear" over Rockhill's marriage to Julia because he expected to inherit since Rockhill had only daughters from his first marriage.

FELPHAM

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A servant at Fontley Priory. Presumably a groom, since he meets Adam at Market Deeping when Adam takes the Mail to Fontley.

FINCHLEY, Mrs.

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The Chawleighs' housekeeper

FRAMPTON, Mr.

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A friend of Mrs. Usselby.