# Mr. Standfast — Character guide

> Key figures in Mr. Standfast by John Buchan.

- [Moxon Ivery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/moxon_ivery.md): In the pacifist colony at Biggleswick, Ivery passes as a mild, well-read gentleman, welcome at every tea table and above suspicion. Yet the war's whole secret machinery seems to bend around him: he is the spider at the c
- [John S. Blenkiron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/john_blenkiron.md): Blenkiron moves through the book as Hannay's steadiest ally, a man who never hurries and never misses, running agents and old friendships from Emporia to London. He affects the harmless invalid, dosing himself and shuffl
- [Peter Pienaar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/peter_pienaar.md): Peter is Hannay's oldest comrade from South African days, a gentle, ungrammatical man who has faced death so often it has become ordinary. Wounded and taken prisoner, he fills his letters with reflections on bravery draw
- [Mary Lamington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/mary_lamington.md): Mary works inside the same shadow network as Hannay, moving between Biggleswick and the front with a composure that belies her years. She is the one who names the cost of their trade, warning that the best of them will b
- [Richard Hannay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/richard_hannay.md): Hannay narrates the book from the mud of a thinly held sector, where a single German reconnaissance plane could doom his division, and from the stranger byways of a country riddled with enemy agents. He is a soldier who 
- [Launcelot Wake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/launcelot_wake.md): Wake arrives in the story as a type Hannay distrusts: a clever, argumentative objector to the war, more at home on a rock face than in a mess. When he and Hannay find themselves hunting the same enemy in the Scottish hil
- [Sir Archibald Roylance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/archibald_roylance.md): A cheerful and daring pilot and friend to Hannay.
- [Abel Gresson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/abel_gresson.md): A suspicious American businessman with hidden loyalties.
- [Andrew Amos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/andrew_amos.md): A loyal and resourceful Scottish servant and agent.
- [Sir Walter Bullivant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/walter_bullivant.md): A senior British intelligence official who directs operations.
- [Macgillivray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/macgillivray.md): A high-ranking officer in British intelligence.
- [Cornelius Brand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/cornelius_brand.md): A mysterious figure encountered during the mission.
- [Geordie Hamilton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/geordie_hamilton.md): A Scottish soldier serving under Hannay.
- [Captain Robert Blaikie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/robert_blaikie.md): A British officer whose identity is assumed by another.
- [Lensch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/lensch.md): A German agent operating in Britain.
- [Mr. Linklater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/linklater.md): A traveling salesman who aids the mission.
- [Clarence Donne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/clarence_donne.md): An American journalist with suspicious motives.
- [M. Bommaerts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_standfast_se/characters/bommaerts.md): A Belgian officer and ally.

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