# Mr. Markington — Memoirs of an Infantry Officer character guide

> Mr. Markington in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Markington

**First appearance:** 0000-i-at-the-army-school

## Snapshot

The sallow, spectacled editor of the Unconservative Weekly, whose mournful dissent gives the narrator his first taste of civilian protest.

## Who they are

Markington is the editor the narrator approaches with a half-formed scheme to tell the public what the war is really like. A lifelong dissenter wearied by public folly, he receives the young officer's outspoken letter with reticent friendliness and takes his horrifying information on trust. He matters because he represents the possibility—and the limits—of speaking truth to the home front.

## Relationships

### [Thornton Tyrrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/characters/thornton_tyrrell)

_professional_

Mr. Markington and Thornton Tyrrell have a professional relationship, likely as colleagues or in a business/military capacity.

### [Thornton Tyrrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/characters/thornton_tyrrell)

_professional_

Mr. Markington and Thornton Tyrrell have a professional relationship, likely as colleagues or in a business/military capacity.

### [Thornton Tyrrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/characters/thornton_tyrrell)

_professional_

Mr. Markington and Thornton Tyrrell have a professional relationship, likely as colleagues or in a business/military capacity.

## In the story

### [X: Independent Action](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/x-independent-action)

Editor of the Unconservative Weekly, whose revelations about war aims inspire Sherston's protest.

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

The editor of the Unconservative Weekly who reveals the war's acquisitive aims and the suppression of truth, inspiring the narrator's protest.

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

Mentioned as having written to Tyrrell about the narrator's change of heart.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iv)

His weekly publication serves as a tonic for disagreeing with public opinion.

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