# Squire Thicknesse — Midwinter character guide

> Squire Thicknesse in Midwinter by John Buchan.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Squire

**First appearance:** 0011-ix-old-england

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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 dominates a scene, but his household is one of the fixed points in a landscape where roads, letters, and loyalties are all shifting. His solidity matters because it throws into relief how precarious Alastair's position is: the squire's world is one Alastair can visit but cannot safely inhabit.

## In the story

### [VI: Introduces the Runaway Lady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/midwinter_se/chapters/vi-introduces-the-runaway-lady)

Presides over the hearing; drowsy and reliant on his niece.

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