# Captain Froud — A Personal Record character guide

> Captain Froud in A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dear Captain Froud, Captain C⸺

**First appearance:** 0002-a-personal-record

## Snapshot

The indefatigable secretary of the London Shipmasters' Society, whose Fenchurch Street rooms offered a haunted, idle writer his last berth at sea.

## Who they are

Captain Froud is a man of tireless activity and devotion, organizing lectures and lobbying for the merchant service, granting private interviews whose principal motive was to render service. His crooked finger and glance above his spectacles linger in memory as he offers the narrator a second officer's berth on a French-chartered steamer. He matters because this small kindness becomes the hinge between the narrator's shore-bound literary idleness and the voyage that will carry him back toward Almayer's world.

## In the story

### [A Personal Record](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_personal_record_se/chapters/a-personal-record)

Helped Conrad secure a berth as a French-speaking officer.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_personal_record_se/chapters/vi)

Mentioned indirectly as part of the network of shipmasters whose certificates the narrator keeps.

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