# Lord Dunbeg — Democracy character guide

> Lord Dunbeg in Democracy by Henry Adams.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dunbeg, Poor Lord Dunbeg

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A courteous, bewildered Irish peer on the American marriage market, Dunbeg endures Victoria Dare's scientific inquiries into how one selects a Countess.

## Who they are

Dunbeg arrives in Washington among the visiting English nobility, an Earl whose polite bewilderment makes him perfect prey for Victoria Dare's experiments in impudence. He gamely attempts to lay down rules for choosing a Countess and confesses he would rather be George Washington than an Earl, only to be told he has not the air of wishing it and that his hero was a rawboned, illiterate, tipsy farmer. His patient confusion dramatizes the collision between European title and American self-invention that runs through the novel's social comedy.

## In the story

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

Struggles to keep up with Victoria Dare's rapid conversation, and asks Carrington about Washington's political skill.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/xi)

Becomes engaged to Victoria Dare, pacing impatiently outside.

### [Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/conclusion)

Engaged to Victoria Dare; described as having a coronet and a peat-bog.

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