# Doctor Thorne — Character guide

> Key figures in Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope.

- [Frank Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/frank_gresham.md): Frank Gresham is the young squire-in-waiting of Greshamsbury, raised to inherit a title and a fortune that no longer exist; his mother's de Courcy relatives have already begun parading him before heiresses. He loves Mary
- [Mary Thorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mary_thorne.md): Mary Thorne lives at Greshamsbury as the doctor's cherished niece, educated, graceful, and intimate with Beatrice Gresham, yet always slightly outside the family circle that adores her. She loves Frank Gresham without en
- [Dr. Thomas Thorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/dr_thorne.md): Dr. Thorne is the trusted country doctor of Greshamsbury, a man of sharp tongue and unbending principle who has made enemies among his medical brethren by refusing to traffic in fashionable humbug. He adores Mary as a da
- [Lady Arabella de Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/lady_arabella_de_courcy.md): Lady Arabella Gresham married beneath her de Courcy rank and has never let her husband forget it; she manages Greshamsbury with an eye on status and a growing fear of poverty. Convinced that Frank must marry an heiress, 
- [Sir Roger Scatcherd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/roger_scatcherd.md): Sir Roger Scatcherd rose from laying stone on the Barsetshire railway to owning it, and the wealth and title sit awkwardly on a man who still speaks and drinks like a laborer. He killed Henry Thorne in a drunken rage yea
- [Beatrice Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/beatrice_gresham.md): Beatrice Gresham is the second daughter of Greshamsbury, plain-spoken, warm, and loyal to Mary Thorne even when the rest of the family treats her as a threat. She carries messages between the lovers, grumbles about the d
- [Louis Scatcherd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/louis_scatcherd.md): Louis Scatcherd inherits the baronetcy, Boxall Hill, and a fortune still held in Dr. Thorne's trust, and he is determined his future lady shall be a lady. He is an invalid given to French drinks in the morning, and his c
- [Harry Baker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/harry_baker.md): Harry Baker belongs to the county set that gathers at Greshamsbury and Courcy Castle, a young man of property who moves on comfortable terms with the local families. His courtship of Beatrice Gresham places him squarely 
- [Dr. Fillgrave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/dr_fillgrave.md): Dr. Fillgrave is the established physician of Barchester, backed by nearly all his brethren in the county, and a man who will not stoop to meet a country apothecary in consultation. When he declines to attend a patient a
- [Lady Scatcherd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/lady_scatcherd.md): Lady Scatcherd rose with her husband from nothing and now keeps Boxall Hill with plain, housekeeping-room manners and an unshakable loyalty to her only son. She admits Louis still takes his French drinks in the morning, 
- [Miss Dunstable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/miss_dunstable.md): Miss Dunstable is rich beyond anyone's need, and the countess and Lady Arabella alike scheme to marry her to their young men. Frank Gresham flirts with her half in fun and half to tease his aunt, only to find himself piq
- [Mr. Mortimer Gazebee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mortimer_gazebee.md): Mr. Mortimer Gazebee is the family solicitor who keeps the de Courcy and Gresham accounts, moving between the squire, her ladyship, and the troublesome Sir Louis with professional caution. He is managing an estate that o
- [Augusta Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/augusta_gresham.md): As the squire's eldest daughter, Augusta has been raised to trade her name for a fortune, and her engagement to the wealthy Mr. Moffat is the family's most promising transaction. When Moffat postpones the wedding on vagu
- [Mr. Caleb Oriel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/caleb_oriel.md): Mr. Oriel occupies the respectable middle ground of Barsetshire life: a clergyman of good family whose suit for Beatrice Gresham is honorable, unhurried, and faintly awkward. His Christmas is spent eating pudding alone w
- [Patience Oriel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/patience_oriel.md): Miss Oriel moves through Barsetshire with every advantage Mary Thorne lacks: family, money, beauty, and the easy court that follows them. Yet she chooses Mary as a friend on equal terms, and her hundred-franc Paris bonne
- [Lady Amelia de Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/lady_amelia_de_courcy.md): One of Lady Arabella's aristocratic sisters who visits Greshamsbury.
- [The Honourable George de Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/george_de_courcy.md): Lady Arabella's brother, a spendthrift aristocrat.
- [Miss Gushing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/miss_gushing.md): A sentimental young woman who admires Dr. Thorne.
- [Mr. Romer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mr_romer.md): A barrister involved in the election petition.
- [Old Mr. Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/old_mr_gresham.md): Mr. Gresham presides over an estate that no longer pays for itself, caught between the dignity his name demands and the creditors it cannot satisfy. His suspicion that Moffat 'is not honest' about Augusta's postponed wed
- [Mr. Nearthewinde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mr_nearthewinde.md): A political agent involved in the election.
- [Winterbones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/winterbones.md): Sir Roger Scatcherd's clerk and drinking companion.
- [Mr. Reddypalm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mr_reddypalm.md): A wine merchant who supplies Sir Roger.
- [Lady Alexandrina de Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/lady_alexandrina_de_courcy.md): Another of Lady Arabella's sisters.
- [Mr. Closerstil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mr_closerstil.md): A political agent.
- [Mr. Bideawhile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/mr_bideawhile.md): A London solicitor for the Gresham family.
- [Old Mr. Thorne of Ullathorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/old_mr_thorne_of_ullathorne.md): A distant relative of Dr. Thorne from an old county family.
- [Countess de Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/countess_de_courcy.md): The wife of the Earl de Courcy.
- [John Newbold Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/doctor_thorne_se/characters/john_newbold_gresham.md): An ancestor of the Gresham family, mentioned in the history.

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