# Orley Farm — Character guide

> Key figures in Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope.

- [Lady Mason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/lady_mason.md): Trollope warns us plainly that the interest of this tale centers on Lady Mason, though she is not its marriageable heroine. Raised from commerce into Sir Joseph Mason's household, she now clings to Orley Farm for her son
- [Felix Graham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/felix_graham.md): Felix Graham is the kind of man Madeline Staveley knows she ought not to have loved: able, ambitious, but without the birth or money her parents expect. He has never spoken a word of love to her, yet a glance, a handshak
- [Lucius Mason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/lucius_mason.md): Lucius Mason returns to Orley Farm as its young master, convinced of his rights and impatient with anyone who questions them. When Dockwrath begins spreading accusations of forgery against his mother, Lucius wants to ind
- [Mr. Furnival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_furnival.md): Mr. Furnival is the great lawyer Lady Mason relies on to save Orley Farm, and his professional loyalty to her is beyond question. But at fifty-five the abstemious young barrister has become a Lothario with a purple nose,
- [Mrs. Orme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mrs_orme.md): Mrs. Orme loves Lady Mason with a loyalty that survives every revelation, standing by her through the trial when others fall away. She is the steady heart of The Cleeve, tending to Sir Peregrine as the ordeal visibly age
- [Samuel Dockwrath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/samuel_dockwrath.md): Dockwrath is a small-town lawyer who has taken up the Orley Farm case on what he calls public motives, though his pleasure in talking about it suggests otherwise. Over brandy and cigars he boasts to the visiting Mr. Crab
- [Sir Peregrine Orme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/sir_peregrine_orme.md): Sir Peregrine is the upright, warm-hearted head of The Cleeve, grandfather to young Peregrine and father to the widowed Mrs. Orme, whose loyalty to Lady Mason draws him into the Orley Farm affair. His late-life proposal 
- [Madeline Staveley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/madeline_staveley.md): Madeline is the prized daughter of Noningsby, raised amid comfort, church-going, and her mother's careful ambitions for a good marriage. She resists being managed, whether by Peregrine's impetuous suit or by her mother's
- [Miriam Usbech](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/miriam_usbech.md): Miriam Usbech belongs to the Hamworth world of attorneys, servants, and old promises, the ordinary life against which the great lawsuit plays out. Her marriage to Dockwrath places her inside the household of the very man
- [Joseph Mason of Groby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/joseph_mason_of_groby.md): Joseph Mason of Groby is a Yorkshire landowner of forty-odd years, aggrieved that his father's late marriage and codicil stripped him of Orley Farm. His grievance hardens into a relentless legal campaign, and his willing
- [Augustus Staveley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/augustus_staveley.md): Augustus Staveley moves easily between Noningsby, the law courts, and the drawing rooms of eligible young women, embodying the confident, well-connected professional class. His friendship with Felix Graham and his flirta
- [Lady Staveley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/lady_staveley.md): Lady Staveley runs Noningsby with open-handed charm, morning prayers, and a keen eye for the niceties of rank and income. She welcomes Peregrine Orme as a prospective son-in-law and grows uneasy as Madeline lingers at Fe
- [Mrs. Furnival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mrs_furnival.md): Mrs. Furnival presides over Cavendish Square as the neglected wife of a rising barrister, her dignity propped up by the sympathetic Miss Biggs. Convinced that Lady Mason's postmarks and private conferences with Tom Furni
- [Judge Staveley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/judge_staveley.md): Judge Staveley is a respected man of law whose country house at Noningsby becomes a stage where suitors, wards, and legal gossip all cross paths. His wife, Lady Staveley, manages the domestic diplomacy — receiving Peregr
- [Mary Snow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mary_snow.md): Mary Snow has been raised and promised to Felix Graham, who regards the engagement as an experiment in education and duty as much as affection. Jealous, unpolished, and painfully aware of her own dependence, she senses t
- [Mr. Moulder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_moulder.md): Mr. Moulder is a prosperous bagman whose dinners, brandy, and loud certainties make him a minor power among the men who move goods and gossip between London and the provinces. Fond of Dockwrath and contemptuous of anythi
- [Mr. Round](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_round.md): Mr. Matthew Round is the working brain of a firm that has carried the Groby Park side of the Orley Farm dispute for twenty years, while his father grows peaches at Isleworth and Mr. Crook handles the dirtier business. Co
- [Mr. Chaffanbrass](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_chaffanbrass.md): Mr. Chaffanbrass is the advocate whom solicitors call when a case must be won by shredding reputations rather than proving facts. His fame rests on the wreckage of witnesses — a reputation Trollope treats with grim, half
- [Sophia Furnival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/sophia_furnival.md): Sophia moves through drawing-rooms with the poise of someone who has already calculated the room. She is angling for Augustus Staveley's hand, but her letters to him are written with one eye on the door, and her wit is a
- [Mrs. Moulder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mrs_moulder.md): Mr. Moulder's wife, a practical and outspoken woman.
- [Mr. Kantwise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_kantwise.md): A traveling salesman of patent furniture, associate of Moulder.
- [Martha Biggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/martha_biggs.md): Mrs. Furnival's nosy and devoted friend.
- [Miss Furnival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/miss_furnival.md): Mr. Furnival's unmarried sister, a sharp-tongued woman.
- [Mr. Crabwitz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_crabwitz.md): Mr. Furnival's clerk, often caught in the middle of domestic strife.
- [Solomon Aram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/solomon_aram.md): An attorney for the defense, working with Chaffanbrass.
- [Bridget Bolster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/bridget_bolster.md): A key witness in the Orley Farm trial, a former servant.
- [Young Peregrine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/young_peregrine.md): Peregrine Orme rides home from the trial beside a mother worn out by loyalty to Lady Mason, his own thoughts already drifting back to Noningsby and the woman he cannot have. He is generous, impulsive, and quietly miserab
- [Sir Joseph Mason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/sir_joseph_mason.md): The deceased owner of Orley Farm, whose will is contested.
- [Lord Alston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/lord_alston.md): A local nobleman and neighbor to the Ormes.
- [Mrs. Baker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mrs_baker.md): Lady Mason's faithful housekeeper at Orley Farm.
- [Mr. Kenneby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_kenneby.md): John Kenneby's father, a minor character in the subplot.
- [Mr. Snengkeld](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_snengkeld.md): A barrister involved in the trial.
- [Mrs. Dockwrath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mrs_dockwrath.md): Samuel Dockwrath's wife, Miriam Usbech.
- [Mrs. Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mrs_green.md): A friend of Mrs. Furnival.
- [Mr. Fitzallen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mr_fitzallen.md): A young man who courts Sophia Furnival.
- [Martock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/martock.md): A former partner of Sir Joseph Mason.
- [Mother Smiley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/mother_smiley.md): A woman who runs a boarding house.
- [Miss Penelope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/miss_penelope.md): A woman courted by John Kenneby.
- [Creusa Mason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orley_farm_se/characters/creusa_mason.md): Joseph Mason's daughter.

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