# Lord Mowbray — Sybil character guide

> Lord Mowbray in Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mowbray, Lord de Mowbray, Earl de Mowbray

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Snapshot

The grand, modern-castle aristocrat whose lawns and phaetons frame Sybil's distress, a landowner whose kindness and power arrive in the same gesture.

## Who they are

Lord Mowbray presides over Mowbray Castle and its wooded demesne, receiving Sybil with the easy hospitality of a man whose rank makes rescue and condescension indistinguishable. Around him gather Lady Joan, Mr. Mountchesney, and the machinery of courtship, charity, and political gossip that decides who may enter his world. His household becomes the stage where Sybil's plebeian loyalty and the aristocracy's charm collide, testing what her father's name can and cannot open.

## In the story

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/vii)

Altamont Belvidere Fitz-Warene, son of Sir John Warren, who inherits the estate and title, and is elevated to Earl de Mowbray.

### [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/xi)

Hosts the dinner, expresses concern about railroads leading to equality, and laments the levelling spirit of the age.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/xii)

Hosts the gathering and engages in conversation about the state of the country.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/viii)

Visits Trafford's factory with his family; praises everything effusively; his title and lands are hinted by Gerard to be under question.

### [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/xii)

Wants the Garter; joins the conspiracy against Peel's influence.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/xiii)

Visits Hatton, anxious about Walter Gerard's legal claim to his manors.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/xiv)

Ungartered and anxious; complains about the garter becoming a party badge.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/iv)

Hosts the gathering; discusses the quiet state of his neighbourhood and the reduced influence of Chartists; welcomes Mr. Hatton.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sybil_se/chapters/ix)

Mentioned as being tranquil before the invasion, but now likely alarmed by the events.

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