# Framley Parsonage — Character guide

> Key figures in Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope.

- [Lucy Robarts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/lucy_robarts.md): Lucy lives at Framley parsonage as a dependent sister, poor enough that even the pony-carriage must be sold, yet she spends her own dwindling money to keep a promise about the Crawley children. When Lady Lufton's note ar
- [Mark Robarts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mark_robarts.md): At twenty-five Mark Robarts has everything a clergyman could want: a living at Framley, a loving wife with a few thousand pounds, and Lady Lufton's formidable protection. Trollope is careful to say he is neither cherub n
- [Lady Lufton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/lady_lufton.md): Lady Lufton holds Framley Court for life while her son roams Scotland and Leicestershire, and she fills the vacuum with good works: schools, a new church, and a vicar she chose and polished herself. Her kindness is genui
- [Nathaniel Sowerby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/nathaniel_sowerby.md): Sowerby of Chaldicotes moves through the world by borrowing against expectations and smiling his way past consequences, with his devoted sister Harriet as the only ally who never abandons him. He is courting Miss Dunstab
- [Lord Lufton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/lord_lufton.md): Young Lord Lufton owns Framley but lives with his mother only when it suits him, keeping a shooting-lodge, London rooms, and a string of horses while the local gentry mutter about his truant ways. He is good-natured, ene
- [Fanny Robarts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/fanny_robarts.md): Fanny Monsell came to the vicarage with a few thousand pounds, enough to furnish it in proper clerical comfort and insure her husband's life, and she has been its practical anchor ever since. She is the sister-in-law Luc
- [Griselda Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/griselda_grantly.md): Griselda Grantly is the archdeacon's daughter, raised by a mother who made her a flawless aristocratic article and now watches her take her place among the great. Her beauty is classical and her manner impeccable, but he
- [Mrs. Proudie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mrs_proudie.md): Mrs. Proudie is the real power in the palace at Barchester, a woman whose nod or cold recognition can make or unmake a clergyman's standing in the close. Where others let a scandalous newspaper article fade, she nurses i
- [Miss Dunstable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/miss_dunstable.md): Miss Dunstable's money makes her the most courted woman in Barsetshire, yet she has loved none of the men of rank and fashion who have offered for her, and she has said she could only marry a man indifferent to her fortu
- [Harold Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/harold_smith.md): Harold Smith moves through the novel as a man of self-importance, forever lecturing and forever certain of his own consequence, and his elevation to the cabinet briefly makes his whole circle hold their heads high. His e
- [Mr. Crawley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mr_crawley.md): Mr. Crawley is a lean, meagre, taciturn clergyman whose poverty is as severe as his pride, riding silent beside Lady Lufton's servant to be consulted on Mark Robarts's foxhunting. He condemns the vice without softening i
- [Mrs. Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mrs_grantly.md): Mrs. Grantly moves through Barsetshire society as a matron of weight and propriety, the wife of a clergyman more thought of than the bishop himself. She has a heart and a faith beneath the worldly weight pressed on her, 
- [Frank Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/frank_gresham.md): Frank Gresham is the only son of a mortgaged squire whose family pride now depends on his making a rich match. His father's old humiliations in lawyers' offices hang over him as a warning, while his own heart pulls him t
- [Dr. Thorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/dr_thorne.md): Dr. Thorne moves easily between the great houses and the poor parishes, trusted by Lady Lufton and needed at Hogglestock. He is Mary's guardian and fiercest protector, and his refusal to explain her parentage makes him a
- [Lord Dumbello](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/lord_dumbello.md): Wealthy, silent nobleman who marries Griselda Grantly.
- [Mrs. Crawley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mrs_crawley.md): Mrs. Crawley lives at Hogglestock in grinding poverty, raising children on a curate's pittance while her husband, Mr. Crawley, refuses charity as a matter of principle. Her quiet endurance and small domestic stratagems r
- [Mr. Supplehouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mr_supplehouse.md): Slippery political journalist and ally of Sowerby.
- [Mr. Fothergill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mr_fothergill.md): Agent for the Duke of Omnium, involved in local politics.
- [Tom Tozer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/tom_tozer.md): Rough bill collector pursuing Sowerby's debts.
- [Lady Meredith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/lady_meredith.md): Sister of Lord Lufton, married to Sir George.
- [Lady Arabella Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/lady_arabella.md): Proud mother of Frank Gresham, concerned with status.
- [Mr. Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mr_jones.md): Local farmer or tradesman, occasionally mentioned.
- [Mrs. Arabin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mrs_arabin.md): Wife of Dr. Arabin, a quiet presence in Barchester.
- [Dr. Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/dr_grantly.md): Dr. Grantly is a churchman of large income and larger expectations, son of a bishop and father of a beautiful daughter he means to place well. He moves through the novel's clerical politics with shrewdness and a keen eye
- [Mr. Harding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/mr_harding.md): Retired clergyman, gentle and beloved by all.
- [John Robarts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/john_robarts.md): Brother of Mark Robarts, a naval officer.
- [Duke of Omnium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/framley_parsonage_se/characters/duke_of_omnium.md): Wealthy, powerful nobleman, owner of Gatherum Castle.

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