# Billy Smallbury — Far from the Madding Crowd character guide

> Billy Smallbury in Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Billy, William Smallbury, Smallbury

**First appearance:** 0009-viii-the-malthouse-the-chat-news

## Who they are

Elderly farmhand and father of Liddy, part of the Weatherbury community.

## In the story

### [VI: The Fair; The Journey; The Fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/far_from_the_madding_crowd_se/chapters/vi-the-fair-the-journey-the-fire)

Billy Smallbury is one of the wagoners whose conversation Gabriel overhears; he comments on the vanity of a woman he believes to be Bathsheba.

### [X: Mistress and Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/far_from_the_madding_crowd_se/chapters/x-mistress-and-men)

Returns from Casterbridge with news that Fanny Robin has run away with the soldiers.

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