# Cousin Henry — Character guide

> Key figures in Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope.

- [Isabel Brodrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/isabel_brodrick.md): Isabel Brodrick was raised at Llanfeare as its presumed heiress, loved by tenants and uncle alike, until the Squire's late change of mind left the estate to Cousin Henry. Her refusal to accept William Owen now that she i
- [Cousin Henry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/cousin_henry.md): Cousin Henry inherits Llanfeare by default, yet takes his breakfast on a tumbled cloth, afraid to ask his own servants for better fare. Everyone around him — housekeeper, tenants, lawyers — is quietly against him, and he
- [Mr. Apjohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_apjohn.md): Mr. Apjohn serves the Indefer Jones family as lawyer and de facto strategist, treating Cousin Henry with the courteous menace of a man who already suspects everything. Where Mr. Brodrick is speculative and easily ruffled
- [Squire Indefer Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/squire_indefer_jones.md): Indefer Jones dotes on his niece Isabel and long intended her for Llanfeare, yet a scruple about the family name leads him to name Cousin Henry instead. His love and his conscience pull in opposite directions, and his de
- [Mr. Brodrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_brodrick.md): Mr. Brodrick arrives at Llanfeare as the wronged father, indignant that a promise to Isabel has been broken and ready to press her claims. He is a competent but unspectacular attorney, less speculative than Apjohn, and h
- [Mr. Owen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_owen.md): Mr. Owen is the family's trusted friend and the man Isabel refused when she was rich — and refuses still, now that she is poor, out of a pride she cannot abandon. His arrival for tea is treated by the household as an eve
- [Mr. Cheekey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_cheekey.md): Cheekey belongs to the opposing side in the coming lawsuit, and word of his engagement spreads like a warning of plague through those with something to hide. His reputation rests on a peculiar cruelty: he is gentle at fi
- [Mrs. Griffith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mrs_griffith.md): Mrs. Griffith runs the household of Llanfeare and knows its rooms, its habits, and its secrets better than the man now occupying the squire's chair. She believes Cousin Henry is a usurper, and her loyalty tilts toward th
- [Mrs. Brodrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mrs_brodrick.md): As the second Mrs. Brodrick, she presides over the Hereford household where Isabel is a guest in what was once her own family's home, and she has little patience for a stepdaughter whose sorrows interfere with domestic c
- [Mr. Ricketts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_ricketts.md): Clerk or associate of Mr. Apjohn, assists with legal work.
- [Mr. Griffith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_griffith.md): Tenant farmer at Llanfeare, provides local information.
- [Joseph Cantor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/joseph_cantor.md): Local farmer and witness to the will's signing.
- [Mr. Balsam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mr_balsam.md): Carmarthen attorney consulted by Cousin Henry.
- [Dr. Powell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/dr_powell.md): Physician who attends the Squire in his final illness.
- [John Griffith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/john_griffith.md): Local landowner and friend of the Squire.
- [Mrs. Bridgeman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cousin_henry_se/characters/mrs_bridgeman.md): Friend of Isabel's in Hereford.

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