Phineas Finn · Character
Plantagenet Palliser
A grave, scrupulous young MP and heir to a dukedom, Palliser treats politics as a duty and marriage as a puzzle he has not yet learned to solve.
supporting
Also known as Mr. Plantagenet Palliser, Mr. Palliser, Palliser, Plantagenet
First appearance: xlviii the duke
As a supporting figure in Phineas Finn, Plantagenet Palliser is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The young Chancellor of the Exchequer, present at the Cabinet meeting.
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 Phineas Finn, and his cautious courtship of Lady Glencora—conducted with more conscience than charm—becomes a study in the collision of ambition, duty, and feeling. He matters because he shows what a serious political life costs a man who cannot be charming.
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- Closing
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See Plantagenet Palliser in xlviii the duke