# Dr. Wortle’s School — Character guide

> Key figures in Dr. Wortle’s School by Anthony Trollope.

- [Dr. Wortle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/dr_wortle.md): Rector of Bowick and proprietor of a school for thirty boys at £200 a year, Dr. Wortle is a man who likes to be master, likes his justice recognized, and has quarrelled with three successive bishops without losing an oun
- [Mrs. Wortle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/mrs_wortle.md): Daughter of a poor Windsor clergyman, Mrs. Wortle has been raised to comfort and county standing by a husband she adores, and she pours her restless heart into the hope that Mary will marry Lord Carstairs and become a co
- [Mary Wortle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/mary_wortle.md): Mary has been loved by Lord Carstairs, a pupil at her father's school, but no engagement has been sanctioned and no letters pass between them — only one brief, breathless meeting on the terrace. She loves him plainly and
- [Mr. Peacocke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/mr_peacocke.md): Mr. Peacocke serves as Dr. Wortle's second master, a man whose quiet competence and evident sorrow have won the Doctor's trust and even his protection. He has gone to America to learn the truth about his wife's first hus
- [Mrs. Peacocke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/mrs_peacocke.md): Mrs. Peacocke confides to Mrs. Wortle that her life has been so blighted and destroyed that she can hardly be injured further, and that she can now look back at accusing eyes with a brazen face. She speaks of herself as 
- [Robert Lefroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/robert_lefroy.md): Robert Lefroy turns up at the school unannounced, starved and demanding, and greets Peacocke with the easy insolence of a man who knows he has a hold. He presses the schoolmaster on whether he is brother-in-law or not, a
- [Lord Carstairs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/lord_carstairs.md): Carstairs is heir to Lord Bracy, sent to Bowick to finish his Latin and Greek among the other boys, yet lodged and dined as a gentleman within the parsonage itself. His easy manners and boyish openness please the Doctor,
- [Mr. Puddicombe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/mr_puddicombe.md): When the Peacocke scandal drives parents to withdraw their sons, Puddicombe refuses to flatter the Doctor's drafted letter, insisting it tells only half the truth and that a man should never excuse himself. His severity 
- [Lady Anne Clifford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/lady_anne_clifford.md): A noblewoman who comments on the scandal, part of the social circle.
- [Mrs. Stantiloup](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/mrs_stantiloup.md): Mrs. Stantiloup wanted her eleven-year-old admitted at a reduced rate, resented being charged for champagne and carriage drives during his influenza, and withdrew him rather than pay. The quarrel escalates into lawsuits 
- [Lady Margaret Momson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/lady_margaret_momson.md): A society lady, mother of Augustus Momson, involved in the scandal talk.
- [Lord Bracy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/lord_bracy.md): Lord Bracy is a man of the world who values rank only as much as it is worth and would be content for his heir to marry a clergyman's daughter without money or title. His letter to the Doctor is generous, sensible, and q
- [The Bishop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_wortle_s_school_se/characters/the_bishop.md): Bowick has outlasted two earlier bishops — one who resented the school overshadowing the parish, one Low Church zealot whom the Doctor openly defied. The present bishop hates quarrels and wishes to befriend his clergy, y

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