# Harry Heathcote of Gangoil — Character guide

> Key figures in Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope.

- [Harry Heathcote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/harry_heathcote.md): Harry Heathcote owns Gangoil, a sheep station carved out of the Australian bush, and he rules it with the vigilance of a man who knows one stray match could ruin him. He is hot-tempered, stubborn, and quick to make enemi
- [Giles Medlicot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/giles_medlicot.md): Giles Medlicot has bought and cultivated a stretch of river frontage that Harry Heathcote regards as stolen from his run, and the two men have clashed over fire, smoke, and suspicion. Yet Medlicot is no villain: he is re
- [Kate Daly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/kate_daly.md): Kate Daly lives at Gangoil with her sister and brother-in-law, riding out with the men and watching Harry's anxieties with wistful, anxious eyes. She is winning and unguarded enough that Giles Medlicot, riding home besid
- [Mrs. Heathcote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/mrs_heathcote.md): Mrs. Heathcote is the quiet center of Gangoil, managing the house, welcoming visitors, and watching her husband's temper and fears with patient concern. She rides with Kate to call on old Mrs. Medlicot at the mill, smoot
- [Jacko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/jacko.md): Jacko is a bush hand at Gangoil, introduced to the station through the German, Karl Bender, and he hates the Brownbie clan with a fervor that borders on superstition. He rides at Harry's heels, brings breathless midnight
- [Bill Nokes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/bill_nokes.md): Bill Nokes was turned off the Gangoil payroll by Harry Heathcote, and he has not forgiven it — he is seen lurking at Boolabong among the Brownbies, and Harry reads his shifty answers as proof of arson. Medlicot, who has 
- [Boscobel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/boscobel.md): Boscobel belongs to the loose fraternity of Boolabong hangers-on whom Harry Heathcote regards as the neighborhood's standing menace, and Karl Bender spots him riding with Georgie Brownbie on the very morning that fire th
- [Old Brownbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/old_brownbie.md): Old Brownbie is the nominal head of the Boolabong clan, but his authority is gone: the cattle belong to his sons, the house is a shambles, and he keeps his footing only by joining whichever faction is winning the family'
- [George Brownbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/george_brownbie.md): George Brownbie is one of the sons who give Boolabong its reputation, and Karl Bender catches sight of him with Boscobel on the morning Heathcote fears his run will burn. He belongs to the family Harry Heathcote consider
- [Joe Brownbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/joe_brownbie.md): Joe Brownbie belongs to the sprawling Boolabong family that Heathcote treats as the neighborhood's plague, and the Brownbies' internecine feud with Karl Bender gives Heathcote's suspicions a useful, if unreliable, source
- [Jerry Brownbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/jerry_brownbie.md): Jerry Brownbie is one of the sons of Boolabong, the family that Harry Heathcote regards as the incarnation of everything wrong with the colony's squatters. The Brownbies live by preying on their neighbors' sheep, and Jer
- [Old Bates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/old_bates.md): An elderly neighbor and friend to the Heathcotes.
- [Mrs. Medlicot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/mrs_medlicot.md): Giles Medlicot's mother, a kind but frail woman.
- [Karl Bender](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/karl_bender.md): A German laborer working for Harry Heathcote.
- [Sergeant Forrest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/sergeant_forrest.md): A police sergeant who investigates disturbances.
- [Jack Brownbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/harry_heathcote_of_gangoil_se/characters/jack_brownbie.md): Another son of the Brownbie family.

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