# John Jobling — Martin Chuzzlewit character guide

> John Jobling in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Jobling, Mr. Jobling

**First appearance:** 0014-xii

## Who they are

A doctor who attends to the Chuzzlewit family.

## In the story

### [Mr. Montague at home. And Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit at home.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/martin_chuzzlewit_se/chapters/xxviii)

The doctor, present at the dinner, introduces Jonas to Wolf and Pip and comments on their worldliness.

### [Mr. Jonas and his friend, arriving at a pleasant understanding, set forth upon an enterprise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/martin_chuzzlewit_se/chapters/xli)

Dines with Jonas and Montague, tells a detailed story of a surgical murder, demonstrating his professional vanity.

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