# Mr. Robin Gilbey — Fanny’s First Play character guide

> Mr. Robin Gilbey in Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Gilbey, Mr. Gilbey, Bobby, Rob, Bob, Master Bobby, Bobby Gilbey

**First appearance:** 0001-fanny-s-first-play

## Snapshot

A prosperous, iron-willed tradesman who disowns his son on principle, yet can't resist a chance to hear news of the lad.

## Who they are

Gilbey presides over a respectable household where appearances are everything and a visitor on the doorstep is a scandal. When a young woman with a police-court connection to his son arrives, his instinct is to have her thrown out—unless she can tell him something about Bobby. His bristling dignity and his soft spot for the boy pull against each other, making him the anxious, comic center of the family's first collision with the world outside Denmark Hill.

## Relationships

### [Juggins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/juggins)

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Juggins serves Mr. Robin Gilbey as a butler, maintaining a formal servant-master relationship.

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