# Mr. Turner — Of Human Bondage character guide

> Mr. Turner in Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Turner

**First appearance:** 0049-l

## Who they are

A fellow clerk at the accounting firm.

## In the story

### [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/of_human_bondage_se/chapters/xvi)

Also known as 'Tar,' he is one of the masters affected by Mr. Perkins' class-swapping innovation and finds it undignified.

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/of_human_bondage_se/chapters/xvii)

Turner, nicknamed Tar, is the most vivacious of the old masters, worldly and fond of good food. He takes over Philip's form after the Upper Third.

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