# Huntingtower — Character guide

> Key figures in Huntingtower by John Buchan.

- [Dickson McCunn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/dickson_mccunn.md): Dickson McCunn has spent forty years weighing out sugar and tea, and now, at fifty-five, he is loose in the world with a knapsack and a taste for romance he never admitted to himself. His wife has gone to the hydropathic
- [John Heritage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/john_heritage.md): Heritage is a man of letters who has been in the war and come out of it with a limp and a restlessness that verse cannot cure. He is hiding in Mrs. Morran's loft when Dickson arrives, and his presence transforms a walkin
- [Dougal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/dougal.md): Dougal is the leader of the Gorbals Die-Hards, a band of Glasgow street boys who have come to Galloway for a holiday and found instead a cause worth fighting for. He speaks in military jargon, keeps a Chief of Staff, and
- [Saskia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/saskia.md): Saskia was a glittering figure in Petrograd before the revolution scattered her world, and now she is a prisoner in a remote Scottish house, hunted for the jewels she may or may not possess. She is proud, resourceful, an
- [Sir Archibald Roylance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/archibald_roylance.md): Sir Archie is a laird of the neighbourhood, fresh from the war and restless for peacetime excitement. He knows the country, the people, and the shortcuts, and his willingness to throw in his lot with Dickson and the boys
- [Mrs. Morran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/mrs_morran.md): Mrs. Morran takes Dickson in as a lodger and quickly becomes the quartermaster and comic conscience of the whole enterprise. She plays the part of the affectionate aunt with such conviction that she reduces herself to he
- [Dobson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/dobson.md): Dobson belongs to the shadowy crew besieging Huntingtower, and he is the first of them Dickson meets face to face, knocking politely at Mrs. Morran's door the morning after Dickson's secret return. His civility is the un
- [Thomas Yownie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/thomas_yownie.md): Thomas serves under Dougal in the Die-Hards, the ragged boy-scout army that has adopted Huntingtower's defense as its own campaign. When the Tower door is blown in and Heritage is feared lost, Thomas delivers the news wi
- [James Loudon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/james_loudon.md): Loudon manages the estate's business in Dalquharter, which makes him a natural source of information about the shut-up House and its odd new occupants. His talk with Dickson is exactly what Dobson has come to probe, so L
- [Wee Jaikie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/wee_jaikie.md): Jaikie is the Die-Hards' scout and messenger, small enough to hide in cover and steady enough to use the knife when it counts. After Dickson is bound and robbed by Ecky and Davie, Jaikie slips out, slits the thongs, and 
- [Alexis Nicolaevitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/alexis.md): Alexis belongs to the small circle of Russian exiles at the center of the Huntingtower intrigue, bound to Saskia by blood and to the old world by everything he has lost. His presence raises the stakes of what looks at fi
- [Léon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/leon.md): Léon is one of the enemy's lieutenants, reconnoitering the Tower with Dobson and Spidel and conferring in the hazel clump when Heritage's stubborn defense confuses them. His voluble French and nervous gestures contrast w
- [Cousin Eugénie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/cousin_eugenie.md): Cousin Eugénie belongs to the inbred Kennedy stock that produces one half-cracked member per generation, and she is this generation's — harmless, imperious, and utterly fixated on the family seat she has been denied sinc
- [Mackintosh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/mackintosh.md): A philanthropic businessman who funds the adventure.
- [Tibby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/tibby.md): A local girl who assists the group.
- [Mem](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/mem.md): A mysterious figure associated with the villains.
- [Quentin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/quentin.md): An elderly servant at Huntingtower.
- [Peter Paterson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huntingtower_se/characters/peter_paterson.md): A local man who helps the group.

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