# Phineas Finn — Character guide

> Key figures in Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope.

- [Phineas Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/phineas_finn.md): Phineas arrives in London with charm, ambition, and almost no money, and quickly discovers that a parliamentary seat is only the beginning of the game. He is drawn to Lady Laura Standish's political world and to Violet E
- [Lady Laura Standish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lady_laura_standish.md): Lady Laura Standish is the daughter of the Earl of Brentford and the woman who first steers Phineas toward a parliamentary career. She chooses Mr. Kennedy for position rather than affection, and the marriage quickly beco
- [Violet Effingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/violet_effingham.md): Violet Effingham is beautiful, rich, and pursued by more suitors than she cares to count, including the volatile Lord Chiltern and the penniless Phineas Finn. She deflects proposals with wit and keeps her true feelings c
- [Lord Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lord_chiltern.md): Lord Chiltern is the son of the Earl of Brentford and Lady Laura's brother, a man whose reckless temper and dangerous riding make him both feared and pitied. He has proposed to Violet Effingham more than once and been re
- [Mr. Kennedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_kennedy.md): Mr. Kennedy is a rich, rigidly regular member of Parliament whose wealth and political weight make him a useful ally and a suffocating husband. He marries Lady Laura believing she will submit to his clockwork household, 
- [Madame Max Goesler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/madame_max_goesler.md): Madame Max Goesler is a widow of mysterious origins whose charm and intelligence have won her a place in the highest political circles. She is courted by the Duke of Omnium, but she will be tender only on her own terms, 
- [Lord Brentford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lord_brentford.md): Lord Brentford is the great Whig magnate whose interest at Loughton gives Phineas his seat in Parliament, and whose Berkeley Square house becomes the young Irishman's second home. He is estranged from his fiery son Chilt
- [Lady Glencora Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lady_glencora_palliser.md): Lady Glencora moves through the novel's drawing rooms as the cleverest and most candid voice in them, married to the wealthy, rising Plantagenet Palliser. She confesses to Violet that she wed for ambition rather than lov
- [Mary Flood Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mary_flood_jones.md): Mary Flood Jones belongs to Phineas's Killaloe life, the world of the Finns and the Flood Joneses that he leaves behind for Westminster. She refuses Mr. Elias Bodkin almost ignominiously and would wait forever if Phineas
- [Mr. Low](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_low.md): Phineas's former mentor and a London barrister.
- [Mr. Turnbull](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/turnbull.md): Mr. Turnbull stands for the kind of uncompromising radicalism that the whips regard as a disease in a young member. Barrington Erle cites him as the sort of man who breaks himself on his own convictions, and his presence
- [Mr. Mildmay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_mildmay.md): Mr. Mildmay is the elder statesman at the head of the Liberal party, the man whose name gives a government its shape and whose retirement would set every ambition loose. He is spoken of with affection and a little pity, 
- [Laurence Fitzgibbon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/laurence_fitzgibbon.md): Laurence Fitzgibbon is Phineas's easygoing compatriot in the House, always true to him after a fashion and never quite solvent. When Phineas's career wobbles, Laurence's counsel is characteristically practical: pop the q
- [Barrington Erle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/barrington_erle.md): Barrington Erle moves through London's Liberal circles as a fixer and whip, distantly connected to Lady Laura Standish and useful to anyone with ambition. Phineas Finn suspects that his own surprising selection for Lough
- [Lady Baldock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lady_baldock.md): Violet's strict aunt and guardian.
- [Mr. Quintus Slide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_quintus_slide.md): Quintus Slide edits a paper that thrives on scandal and the humiliation of public men, and he nurses grudges with the patience of a man who owns a press. Where Phineas Finn wants to rise on merit and connection, Slide re
- [Mr. Bunce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_bunce.md): Phineas's landlord and a radical workingman.
- [Mr. Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/gresham.md): A leading Liberal politician and future prime minister.
- [Mr. Clarkson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/clarkson.md): A moneylender who pursues Fitzgibbon.
- [Mrs. Bunce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mrs_bunce.md): Mr. Bunce's kind wife who looks after Phineas.
- [Mr. Ratler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/ratler.md): A government whip and political operator.
- [Lord Cantrip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lord_cantrip.md): A cabinet minister and ally to Phineas.
- [Mr. Daubeny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_daubeny.md): The Conservative leader and rival to Mildmay.
- [Mr. Bonteen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mr_bonteen.md): A jealous politician who opposes Phineas.
- [Lord Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lord_fawn.md): A timid young nobleman who courts Violet.
- [Plantagenet Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/plantagenet_palliser.md): Plantagenet Palliser is the earnest, somewhat stiff future Duke of Omnium, a man whose integrity is real but whose manner makes him easy to underestimate. He moves in the same parliamentary and drawing-room circles as Ph
- [Lord Tulla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lord_tulla.md): An Irish landlord and political figure.
- [Dr. Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/dr_finn.md): Phineas's father, a country doctor in Ireland.
- [Mrs. Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mrs_finn.md): Phineas's mother in Killaloe.
- [Barbara Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/barbara_finn.md): Phineas's younger sister.
- [Duke of Omnium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/duke_of_omnium.md): A wealthy, reclusive old duke.
- [George Morris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/george_morris.md): A young man about town and friend of Fitzgibbon.
- [Mrs. Flood Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/mrs_flood_jones.md): Mary Flood Jones's mother.
- [Augusta Boreham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/augusta_boreham.md): A young woman in society.
- [Lord Baldock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_finn_se/characters/lord_baldock.md): Lady Baldock's husband, a minor nobleman.

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