# Brown on Resolution — Character guide

> Key figures in Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester.

- [Albert Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/albert_brown.md): Albert Brown is a barely-promoted sailor from a modest background, hungry for the commission that would lift him above his origins, and the Royal Navy's hunt for the German raider Ziethen is his chance to earn it. Wounde
- [Agatha Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/agatha_brown.md): Agatha Brown is the daughter of a prosperous Chapel-going tradesman, bound by the small proprieties of her class until a chance encounter with Captain Saville-Samarez overturns them. When her father confronts her with th
- [Richard Saville-Samarez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/richard_saville_samarez.md): Captain Saville-Samarez commands the battle cruiser Leopard during the early Pacific hunt for von Spee's squadron, and his instinct for independent action sends Penzance to comb the Galapagos. He is a man of prompt decis
- [Ziethen Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/ziethen_brown.md): Ziethen is a powerful German light cruiser detached from von Spee's squadron to raid British shipping, and her captain von Lutz has brought her to Resolution for repairs after a collision. She is both a weapon of war and
- [Hans Schmidt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/hans_schmidt.md): Herr Hans Schmidt runs one of the central ganglia of German Pacific secret service, a heavy, unshaven man who works through the night in nightshirt and trousers sending the messages that direct von Spee's squadron. His m
- [Von Spee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/von_spee.md): Admiral von Spee commands the German East Asia Squadron, and his whereabouts obsess the Admiralty as Charybdis searches the Carolines and Marshalls for him. He is a ghost the British cannot pin down, detaching Ziethen fo
- [Von Lutz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/von_lutz.md): Von Lutz commands the warship that shells the Charybdis and takes Albert Brown prisoner, and he presides over the Ziethen's repairs in the Resolution lagoon with an almost complacent efficiency. His flaw is a certain pro
- [Mr. Gold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/mr_gold.md): Mr. Gold is Albert's teacher, a landlady-ridden bachelor drawn to the warmth of Mrs. Brown's sitting-room and to Agatha's complexion and figure. Agatha, queenly and calculating, weighs marriage to him as an advantage to 
- [Muller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/muller.md): Muller is a landing-party seaman who answers the blaspheming Commander with an inaudible reply and refuses to plunge into the cactus and rock until he must, keeping to the crest and dreaming of anything but water. His in
- [Mr. Deane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/mr_deane.md): A British naval officer and friend of Captain Samarez.
- [Penzance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/penzance.md): A British light cruiser involved in the naval action.
- [Charybdis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/charybdis.md): A British warship that plays a role in the climactic battle.
- [Leopard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/leopard.md): A German auxiliary cruiser that appears in the narrative.
- [Mrs. Rodgers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/mrs_rodgers.md): A neighbor and friend of Agatha Brown in England.
- [Doctor Walters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/doctor_walters.md): The local doctor who attends to Agatha and Albert.
- [Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/will.md): A young man from the village, a friend of Albert's youth.
- [Harry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/harry.md): A fellow seaman and friend of Albert in the Royal Navy.
- [Adeline Burton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/adeline_burton.md): A young woman briefly romantically linked to Albert.
- [George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/george.md): A crewman on the German ship, briefly noted.
- [Dad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/dad.md): Albert's stepfather, a kind but ineffectual man.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/brown_on_resolution_se/characters/mother.md): Albert's grandmother, mentioned in family context.

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