# Buckingham — Beyond Thirty character guide

> Buckingham in Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A Pan-American naval officer whose restless hunger for the violent, romantic past hurls him across the forbidden meridian into a world of tigers and tyrants.

## Who they are

Jefferson Turck, twenty-one and bred to the navy, finds his era of peace suffocating and dreams of the wars and wildness his ancestors knew. That longing drives him past 30°, where a tiger's charge and a shipmate's death strip away romantic illusion. His voice—confident, curious, occasionally reckless—carries the reader through the disorienting collision of modern discipline with ancient brutality.

## Relationships

### [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl)

_romantic_

Buckingham is deeply infatuated with the girl, pursuing her with intense attention and emotional dependency.

### [Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/victory)

_rivalry_

Buckingham resents Victory's influence and sees him as a rival for the girl's affection.

### [Wettin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/wettin)

_social_

Buckingham and Wettin are acquaintances moving in the same social circles, with occasional interactions.

### [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/mary)

_family_

Buckingham and Mary are siblings, with a close but sometimes strained familial bond.

### [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl)

_romantic_

Buckingham is deeply infatuated with the girl, pursuing her with intense attention and emotional dependency.

### [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl)

_romantic_

Buckingham is deeply infatuated with the girl, pursuing her with intense attention and emotional dependency.

### [Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/victory)

_rivalry_

Buckingham resents Victory's influence and sees him as a rival for the girl's affection.

### [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/mary)

_family_

Buckingham and Mary are siblings, with a close but sometimes strained familial bond.

### [Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/victory)

_rivalry_

Buckingham resents Victory's influence and sees him as a rival for the girl's affection.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/iv)

Orders the narrator bound and confined; acts as the tyrannical king of the tribe.

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