# He Knew He Was Right — Character guide

> Key figures in He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope.

- [Hugh Stanbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/hugh_stanbury.md): Hugh Stanbury earns his living by his pen, which places him awkwardly between the genteel Rowleys and his own proud, impoverished family in Devon. He is drawn to Nora but hesitates to propose, knowing that marriage on a 
- [Nora Rowley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/nora_rowley.md): Nora is the sister without fortune, dependent on the kindness of relatives and expected to marry well. She turns down the rich and amiable Mr. Glascock, scandalising her family, because her heart is fixed on Hugh Stanbur
- [Dorothy Stanbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/dorothy_stanbury.md): Dorothy lives under the thumb of Miss Jemima Stanbury, who has decided that her niece shall marry the widowed clergyman Mr. Gibson. Gentle, dutiful, and without a shilling of her own, Dorothy nonetheless refuses to be ma
- [Louis Trevelyan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/louis_trevelyan.md): Louis Trevelyan is a man of principle and property who cannot bear the thought that his authority has been slighted. When his wife Emily refuses to break off a harmless acquaintance with Colonel Osborne, he demands submi
- [Emily Trevelyan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/emily_trevelyan.md): Emily Trevelyan is a woman of spirit who believes her innocence should be enough, and who resents being ordered to give up a friend on no evidence. Her refusal to apologise for conduct she does not consider wrong turns a
- [Miss Jemima Stanbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/miss_jemima_stanbury.md): Miss Jemima Stanbury is a woman of strong opinions, generous impulses, and an ungovernable desire to manage other people's lives. She takes in her niece Dorothy, plans her marriage to Mr. Gibson, and writes furious lette
- [Sir Marmaduke Rowley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/sir_marmaduke_rowley.md): Sir Marmaduke presides over a household of women in Manchester Street, his authority nominally absolute but practically besieged by daughters with opinions and suitors with insufficient incomes. His elder daughter's disa
- [Lady Rowley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/lady_rowley.md): Lady Rowley manages the practical machinery of her family's crises — receiving Hugh Stanbury's awkward proposal, arranging for a grandchild to be fetched from Italy, and tempering her husband's bluster. She is drawn to S
- [Colonel Osborne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/colonel_osborne.md): Colonel Osborne moves through Exeter society with the ease of a man who has always been welcomed and never questioned, paying calls on Mrs. Trevelyan at Nuncombe Putney with a casualness that scandalizes the neighborhood
- [Brooke Burgess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/brooke_burgess.md): Brooke Burgess stands to inherit Miss Stanbury's money, a fact that makes his romantic interest in the humble Dorothy both a promise and a problem. He is decent, patient, and caught between his aunt's controlling generos
- [Mr. Glascock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mr_glascock.md): Mr. Glascock moves through the novel as the ideal suitor everyone can see except the woman he wants — wealthy, well-connected, and generous enough to ride at dawn to retrieve a child for people who are nothing to him. Hi
- [Priscilla Stanbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/priscilla_stanbury.md): Priscilla runs the practical affairs of the Stanbury household with an efficiency that borders on severity, editing her mother's letters and managing her sister's expectations with equal bluntness. She has accepted that 
- [Camilla French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/camilla_french.md): Camilla French is one of Mrs. French's marriageable daughters at Heavitree, and she pursues the vacillating Mr. Gibson with a determination that scandalises Exeter. When he tries to withdraw his offer, she storms his lod
- [Mr. Gibson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mr_gibson.md): Mr. Gibson is a comfortably established clergyman in Exeter, favoured by Miss Stanbury as a possible match and pursued by the French sisters with alarming energy. He lisped his refusals, dreads confrontation, and finds h
- [Arabella French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/arabella_french.md): Arabella French is the elder and gentler of Mrs. French's daughters, and she has allowed herself to believe that Mr. Gibson means to marry her. When Camilla secures him instead, Arabella collapses in tears, calls her sis
- [Caroline Spalding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/caroline_spalding.md): Caroline Spalding is the niece of a New England senator, travelling in Europe with her fiercely republican friend Wallachia Petrie when she attracts the attention of the Honourable Charles Glascock. She is drawn to him b
- [Lady Milborough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/lady_milborough.md): Lady Milborough is an old family friend of the Trevelyans, kind, fussy, and entirely convinced that appearances must be preserved at any cost. Her well-intentioned cautions to Louis about Emily's acquaintance with Colone
- [Mr. Bozzle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mr_bozzle.md): Mr. Bozzle is a retired policeman who now sells his services as an investigator, and Trevelyan employs him to spy on Emily and later to demand the return of the child. He loves power, loves tapping people on the shoulder
- [Mr. Outhouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mr_outhouse.md): Mr. Outhouse is the rector of St. Diddulph's, a man so suspicious of West-end clubs and fashionable connections that he refused even to dine at his niece Emily's house in Curzon Street. When the Trevelyan marriage breaks
- [Mrs. Outhouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mrs_outhouse.md): Mr. Outhouse's wife, who reluctantly hosts Emily Trevelyan.
- [Bartholomew Burgess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/bartholomew_burgess.md): Old Bartholomew Burgess is a banker in Exeter whose long-ago courtship of Miss Stanbury has curdled into a running feud, and he loses no chance to warn his nephew Brooke that the legacy dangling before him comes with a c
- [Miss Wallachia Petrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/miss_wallachia_petrie.md): An eccentric American feminist who travels with the Spaldings.
- [Mrs. French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mrs_french.md): Mother of Camilla and Arabella, who schemes for their marriages.
- [Mrs. Spalding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mrs_spalding.md): Caroline's mother, an American lady traveling in Europe.
- [Olivia Spalding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/olivia_spalding.md): Caroline's sister, who also travels with the family.
- [Mrs. Bozzle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mrs_bozzle.md): Mr. Bozzle's wife, who assists in his detective work.
- [Lord Peterborough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/lord_peterborough.md): An elderly peer whose title eventually passes to Mr. Glascock.
- [Mrs. Fuller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/mrs_fuller.md): A friend of the Outhouses who appears in their social circle.
- [Dr. Turbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/dr_turbury.md): A doctor who attends to Trevelyan during his illness.
- [Dr. Nevill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/dr_nevill.md): A doctor who treats Trevelyan in England.
- [Rev. Oliphant Outhouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/rev_oliphant_outhouse.md): Mr. Outhouse's brother, also a clergyman.
- [Martha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/martha.md): A servant in the Trevelyan household.
- [Louey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_knew_he_was_right_se/characters/louey.md): The young son of Louis and Emily Trevelyan.

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