# Lord Bracy — Dr. Wortle’s School character guide

> Lord Bracy in Dr. Wortle’s School by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Earl Bracy, the Earl

**First appearance:** 0019-part-v-vii-lord-bracy-s-letter

## Snapshot

Carstairs's peer father, who writes to Dr. Wortle with disarming frankness about his son's love for Mary and the perils of a long engagement.

## Who they are

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 quietly anxious: he fears a long engagement will bind the girl while the boy forgets. In a novel full of people judging the Wortles, Bracy offers the counterweight of an honourable outsider's trust — and a reminder that Carstairs's suit carries real consequences.

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