# Joshua Rigg — Middlemarch character guide

> Joshua Rigg in Middlemarch by George Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Rigg, Mr. Rigg, Joshua Rigg, Mr. Rigg Featherstone

**First appearance:** 0037-xxxii

## Who they are

Featherstone's illegitimate son who inherits Stone Court and sells it.

## In the story

### [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/chapters/xxxv)

The unknown heir to Featherstone's estate; appears cool and businesslike, with a high chirping voice and vile accent.

### [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/chapters/xli)

Now master of Stone Court, Rigg is cool, calculating, and frog-faced, with a strong aversion to his stepfather Raffles. He refuses Raffles' demands and threatens to have him driven off.

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