# Sir Arthur Chadleigh — Short Fiction character guide

> Sir Arthur Chadleigh in Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sir Arthur, old Sir Arthur, Chadleigh, young Chadleigh, Arthur Chadleigh

**First appearance:** 0009-a-chapter-in-the-history-of-a-tyrone-family

## Snapshot

A proud patriarch whose proscription of his dead wife's very name leaves his daughter Mary to grieve alone and unconsoled.

## Who they are

Sir Arthur rules his household with a silence so absolute that no one dares speak Lady Chadleigh's name in his presence, even after her death abroad. His coldness has made his daughter Mary's secret hope of her mother's return the central ache of her young life. He matters because that frozen grief—and whatever caused the separation—is the buried wound from which the family's haunting grows.

## In the story

### [The Fatal Bride](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/the-fatal-bride)

Introduced as a dissipated baronet, a duellist, and a cold-hearted family man whose wife eloped with Lord Kildalkin.

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