# Dr. Howard Bancock Binch — Elmer Gantry character guide

> Dr. Howard Bancock Binch in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Dr. Binch, Binch

**First appearance:** 0057-chapter-x

## Who they are

A pompous and self-important minister in Zenith.

## In the story

### [Chapter XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/elmer_gantry_se/chapters/chapter-xiv)

Baptist evangelist who debates hymn and conversion methods with Elmer and Sharon.

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

A celebrated evangelist who lunches with Sharon and Elmer, sharing his methods and condemning rivals, yet is later dismissed by Sharon as a 'swellhead and four-flusher.'

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