# Phineas Redux — Character guide

> Key figures in Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope.

- [Phineas Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/phineas_finn.md): Phineas has risen from a Dublin lodging to a parliamentary career, charming his way into Whig drawing-rooms while juggling loyalty to patrons, debts, and two women who love him differently. His fatal gift is earnestness 
- [Lady Laura Kennedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lady_laura_kennedy.md): Once the brilliant political hostess who launched Phineas's career, Laura is now estranged from her husband and consumed by a devotion she calls friendship but feels as passion. She has sacrificed everything for Phineas'
- [Gerard Maule](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/gerard_maule.md): Maule belongs to the easy, well-connected class that rides well, spends freely, and thinks about tomorrow only when a creditor knocks. He genuinely wants Adelaide, yet his lackadaisical drift leaves her waiting while a d
- [Lord Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lord_chiltern.md): Chiltern is a red-haired, hot-tempered aristocrat whose one fixed idea is that Phineas Finn is innocent because Phineas rides to hounds. His loyalty is absolute and unsubtle, and his running war over Trumpeton Wood's fox
- [Mr. Bonteen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_bonteen.md): Bonteen is the kind of man who works a room, counts his intimacies, and measures every acquaintance by usefulness, so his near-promotion to Chancellor of the Exchequer only sharpens his sense of rank. He accuses Phineas 
- [Mr. Daubeny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_daubeny.md): Daubeny is the cool, calculating head of the Tory party, willing to outbid the Liberals on their own reform measure because he can and they cannot. His strategy forces Phineas and the Duke to confront whether politics is
- [Lady Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lady_chiltern.md): Lady Chiltern presides over Harrington Hall with the ease of a woman who has survived her own turbulent courtship and now prefers to engineer everyone else's. She loves her husband beyond all things, yet keeps a tender, 
- [Barrington Erle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/barrington_erle.md): Barrington Erle moves through clubs and lobbies as the party's quiet machinery, arranging dinners, pairing votes, and measuring men by their usefulness. His friendship with Phineas Finn is genuine but bounded by politica
- [Mr. Gresham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_gresham.md): Mr. Gresham stands at the summit of the government, dispensing offices and expecting gratitude, yet his earlier decision to pass Phineas over in favour of Mr. Bonteen has left a wound that no Colonial Under-Secretaryship
- [Madame Max Goesler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/madame_max_goesler.md): Madame Max Goesler has conquered London by wit, discretion, and a fortune she spends on others, becoming the old Duke of Omnium's devoted companion and Lady Glencora's particular friend. Everyone credits her with good na
- [Duchess of Omnium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/duchess_of_omnium.md): The Duchess of Omnium is clever, indiscreet, and good-natured, a woman whose sharp eye for facts lets her see into hearts even when her own conduct is careless. She adores Madame Max Goesler and manages the old Duke betw
- [Adelaide Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/adelaide_palliser.md): Adelaide Palliser arrives at Harrington Hall as a guest whose eligibility turns the house into a quiet battlefield, with the red-faced Mr. Spooner hovering and scheming for a private word. She is not vain but she is diff
- [Mr. Low](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_low.md): Phineas's former mentor and a barrister who advises him.
- [Mr. Spooner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_spooner.md): A clumsy suitor to Adelaide Palliser, owner of Spoon Hall.
- [Quintus Slide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/quintus_slide.md): Slide is the kind of enemy a rising politician never sees coming: a man who buys ink by the barrel and knows exactly which reputations can be shredded for profit. His power lies in the gap between what is true and what c
- [Robert Kennedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/robert_kennedy.md): Once a powerful MP and master of the magnificent Loughlinter estate, Kennedy now lives in near-total seclusion, his rivers unfished and his moors unshot, while his wife remains abroad to escape him. His marriage to Lady 
- [Mr. Chaffanbrass](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_chaffanbrass.md): Chaffanbrass is a legend of the criminal courts — a man who has spent decades dismantling witnesses and whose very name makes the guilty and the innocent alike uneasy. He is not a gentleman in the drawing-room sense, but
- [Sir Gregory Grogram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/sir_gregory_grogram.md): The Attorney General who prosecutes Phineas for murder.
- [Lord Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lord_fawn.md): A nervous government official who gives key evidence at the trial.
- [Mr. Monk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_monk.md): A senior Liberal statesman and Phineas's political ally.
- [Mr. Browborough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/browborough.md): A corrupt MP whose bribery trial opens a seat for Phineas.
- [Lady Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lady_eustace.md): A beautiful and scheming widow involved with Mr. Emilius.
- [Lord Cantrip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lord_cantrip.md): A cabinet minister and friend who supports Phineas.
- [Mr. Emilius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_emilius.md): Emilius presents himself as a clergyman of earnest piety and continental polish, and London society — or a profitable slice of it — takes him at his own valuation. His marriage to a wealthy widow gives him the respectabi
- [Plantagenet Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/plantagenet_palliser.md): Palliser is the rare politician who cares more for decimal coinage and honest government than for the theatre of office, and his new dukedom only deepens his detachment from the snarls of lesser colleagues. He absorbs ru
- [Mr. Wickerby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_wickerby.md): A solicitor who handles Phineas's legal affairs.
- [Mrs. Bunce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mrs_bunce.md): Phineas's loyal landlady who supports him during his trial.
- [Yosef Mealyus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/yosef_mealyus.md): A foreigner who provides a crucial alibi for Phineas.
- [Ned Spooner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/ned_spooner.md): A younger relative of Mr. Spooner, also interested in Adelaide.
- [Violet Effingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/violet_effingham.md): Now Lady Chiltern, Phineas's former love and loyal friend.
- [Mr. Bunce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_bunce.md): Mrs. Bunce's husband, a rough but honest man.
- [Laurence Fitzgibbon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/laurence_fitzgibbon.md): An Irish MP and friend of Phineas, often in financial trouble.
- [Lady Baldock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lady_baldock.md): A conservative society matron and relative of Lady Laura.
- [Mr. Turnbull](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_turnbull.md): A radical MP and political opponent of Phineas.
- [George Kennedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/george_kennedy.md): Robert Kennedy's brother, who manages the estate.
- [Mr. Molescroft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/molescroft.md): A great attorney from Tankerville who advises Phineas.
- [Lady Hartletop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/lady_hartletop.md): An elderly society figure and friend of the Duchess.
- [Sir Harry Coldfoot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/sir_harry_coldfoot.md): A government minister involved in the political maneuvering.
- [The Old Duke of Omnium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/duke_of_omnium_old.md): The elderly former Duke, now in his second childhood.
- [Mrs. Meager](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mrs_meager.md): Mr. Meager's wife, mother of a key witness.
- [Earl of Brentford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/earl_of_brentford.md): Lady Laura's father, a former cabinet minister.
- [Tom Spooner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/tom_spooner.md): Another Spooner relative, a young man about town.
- [Duke of St. Bungay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/duke_of_st_bungay.md): An elder statesman and advisor to the Liberal party.
- [Mr. Scruby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/mr_scruby.md): A solicitor involved in the Browborough bribery case.
- [Mr. Roby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/roby.md): A Conservative whip and political operative.
- [Sir Omicron Pie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/sir_omicron_pie.md): A doctor who testifies about Robert Kennedy's sanity.
- [Miss Meager](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/miss_meager.md): Daughter of the Meager family, a witness in the case.
- [Colonel Mowbray Dick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/colonel_mowbray_dick.md): A military man and friend of Lord Chiltern.
- [Viscount Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/characters/viscount_fawn.md): Lord Fawn's formal title.

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