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Squire Thicknesse

A Peak-country landowner whose manor quietly shelters the lady's belongings while snowbound travellers and Jacobite intrigues pass through his gates.

supporting

Also known as Squire

First appearance: ix old england

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Presides over the hearing; drowsy and reliant on his niece.
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Thicknesse belongs to the settled, comfortable world of Derbyshire gentry — the kind of man whose manor can be trusted with a lady's charge and whose name anchors Alastair's sense of where he has been. He never…

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See Squire Thicknesse in ix old england

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AMAlastair MacleanMSMr. Samuel Joh…SJSir John NorreysAMAmos MidwinterJJJourneyman JohnSTSquire Thicknesse

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See Squire Thicknesse in ix old england