# Jonathan Danton — Blue Hand character guide

> Jonathan Danton in Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Jonathan, old Danton

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A hard, sickly millionaire shipowner whose extraordinary will left everything to an infant daughter and poisoned the Danton family for twenty years.

## Who they are

Jonathan Danton married the Earl of Plimstock's daughter and made both their lives miserable, his bad heart souring him into harshness toward his wife. Before sailing for America he signed a will leaving his whole fortune to baby Dorothy, with the income to his sister Mrs. Groat and the capital withheld for twenty years after the child's death. The disappearance of Lady Mary and the baby at Margate, and the news that killed him on his return, set every later claim and crime in motion.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/chapters/i)

The deceased millionaire shipowner who made an unusual will leaving his fortune to his daughter Dorothy.

### [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/chapters/ix)

Described as having made his will partly due to his father's treatment of Mrs. Groat; he was estranged from his sister and puzzled by his father's dislike of her.

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/chapters/xvii)

Mentioned as the former owner of the offices now associated with the Selengers.

### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/chapters/xxxiv)

Lady Mary's deceased husband; died of shock after learning of his daughter's apparent death from Jane Groat.

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