# Nordenholt’s Million — Character guide

> Key figures in Nordenholt’s Million by J. J. Connington.

- [Nordenholt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/nordenholt.md): Nordenholt rules the sealed-off Clyde Valley as a self-appointed despot, driving mines and factories past breaking point while his spies watch a starving England beyond the frontier. His harshness grows from an obsession
- [Elsa Huntingtower](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/elsa_huntingtower.md): Elsa moves through Nordenholt's offices and drawing rooms with an ease that unsettles the men around her, half confidante and half enigma. She hints at a long, painful story behind her secretaryship but never quite tells
- [Flint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/flint.md): Flint built his fortune on motorcars and factory systems before the blight, and his gift for control made him indispensable to Nordenholt's survival scheme. He is a practical man among fanatics and dreamers, loyal but in
- [Glendyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/glendyne.md): Glendyne speaks to Jack with a rough candour that strips away illusions about human nature, insisting that reconstruction must be built for flesh-and-blood units rather than ideals. He reports on the night's grim doings 
- [Wotherspoon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/wotherspoon.md): Wotherspoon lectures and writes about real investigators without ever originating anything himself, yet his name carries weight with a public hungry for scientific authority. Flint recalls him with a mixture of pity and 
- [Jack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/jack.md): Jack works at the center of the Nitrogen Area's control machinery, drowning in figures and reports while the softer civilisation he knew slips beyond recall. Nordenholt tests him deliberately, showing him the brute found
- [Reverend John P. Vester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/reverend_john_p_vester.md): Vester commands vast open-air audiences with a voice built for huge gatherings, yet his cloudy thinking and touch of fanaticism repel the narrator even as his personal force attracts. Nordenholt sees him not as a creator
- [Uncle Stanley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/uncle_stanley.md): Uncle Stanley belongs to the old world that Nordenholt's despotic enterprise is steadily displacing, and his instinctive resistance marks him as a holdout against the collective discipline the Area demands. His presence 
- [Henley-Davenport](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/henley_davenport.md): Henley-Davenport moves easily between official business and the drawing-room intimacies of Nordenholt's household, escorting him to inspect experiments and sharing in the small social rituals that punctuate the crisis. H
- [Hinkinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/hinkinson.md): A young man who joins the survival community.
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/father.md): Jack's father, a traditionalist who dies early in the crisis.
- [Simpson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/simpson.md): A worker in the survival project.
- [Lady Angela](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/lady_angela.md): A socialite who adapts to the new world order.
- [Grogan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/grogan.md): A tough laborer in the survival community.
- [Mitchell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/mitchell.md): A scientist working on nitrogen fixation.
- [Saxenham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/saxenham.md): A tragic figure who dies during the crisis.
- [B. Diazotans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/b_diazotans.md): A mysterious scientist who discovers the blight's cause.
- [Geoffrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/geoffrey.md): A young man who dies early in the story.
- [Biles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/biles.md): A minor official in the survival project.
- [Herne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/herne.md): A worker in the nitrogen area.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/mother.md): Jack's mother, who dies early in the crisis.
- [Jahveh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nordenholt_s_million_se/characters/jahveh.md): A religious figure referenced in the story.

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