# Sir Malcolm — Lady Chatterley’s Lover character guide

> Sir Malcolm in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

Connie's father, a celebrated painter and freethinker whose easy bohemianism gives his daughter both her taste for freedom and her vagueness about what to do with it.

## Who they are

Sir Malcolm belongs to the cosmopolitan, cultured class that drifts through the novel's background — the world of artists, London flats, and opinions held lightly. He is affectionate toward Connie but fundamentally detached, more interested in his own comforts and theories than in the marriage she is slowly suffocating inside. His casual permissiveness matters early on: it helps explain why Connie has no inherited framework for judging her situation, only a vague hunger for something real.

## Relationships

### [Constance Chatterley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/constance_chatterley)

_family_

Affectionate father-daughter relationship with Sir Malcolm's bohemian encouragement of Constance's independence.

### [Oliver Mellors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/oliver_mellors)

_social_

Cautious, respectful acquaintance as Sir Malcolm assesses Mellors' suitability for his daughter.

### [Oliver Mellors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/oliver_mellors)

_social_

Cautious, respectful acquaintance as Sir Malcolm assesses Mellors' suitability for his daughter.

### [Constance Chatterley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/constance_chatterley)

_family_

Affectionate father-daughter relationship with Sir Malcolm's bohemian encouragement of Constance's independence.

### [Constance Chatterley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/constance_chatterley)

_family_

Affectionate father-daughter relationship with Sir Malcolm's bohemian encouragement of Constance's independence.

## In the story

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/chapters/i)

Connie's father, a well-known R.A. (Royal Academician) who allowed his daughters freedom in their upbringing, leaving his wife to rule the household while he went his own way.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/chapters/ii)

Visits Wragby and privately tells Connie that Clifford's writing has 'nothing in it'; warns Clifford about Connie's demi-vierge state.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/chapters/iii)

Connie's father, who advises her to get a beau, suggesting she needs a lover.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/chapters/xviii)

Initially angry about the scandal, but after meeting Mellors, he approves and becomes tender with Connie.

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