# Clive Randolph — Magnificent Obsession character guide

> Clive Randolph in Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Randolph, Clive Randolph

**First appearance:** 0004-iii

## Snapshot

A shrewd man of means whose uncanny business instincts and furtive dealings with certain people hint at a motive tangled up with Wayne Hudson's surgical greatness.

## Who they are

Randolph knows when to buy and when to sell, and other businessmen seek his judgment on real estate and industrial stocks—yet his professional success seems oddly bound to quiet favors done for strangers. Nancy Ashford's account of Hudson's coded journal and his secretive wards casts Randolph as a piece of a larger puzzle, a man whose motives may explain what made the chief a great surgeon. He stands at the edge of the mystery Bobby is only beginning to chase.

## Relationships

### [Bobby Merrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/magnificent_obsession_se/characters/bobby_merrick)

_friendship_

Clive is a friend and peer of Bobby, sharing social and possibly professional ties.

### [Bobby Merrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/magnificent_obsession_se/characters/bobby_merrick)

_friendship_

Clive is a friend and peer of Bobby, sharing social and possibly professional ties.

## In the story

### [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/magnificent_obsession_se/chapters/viii)

Introduced as a gifted sculptor and hypnotist who claims to have discovered a method for generating personal power; central figure in Hudson's journal.

### [The Philosophy of Power and the Rescue at Gordon's](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/magnificent_obsession_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned as the instructor in the manuscript's philosophy of personal power.

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