# The American Senator — Character guide

> Key figures in The American Senator by Anthony Trollope.

- [Arabella Trefoil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/arabella_trefoil.md): Arabella Trefoil moves through country-house society with the practiced ease of a woman who has made marriage her profession, tailoring her manner to each eligible man she meets. At Rufford's gathering she flirts with th
- [Mary Masters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mary_masters.md): Mary Masters lives under her stepmother's sharp tongue and her father's quiet hopes, caught between duty to family and the pull of her own heart. When she tells her father she cannot marry Lawrence Twentyman, she faces n
- [Lord Rufford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lord_rufford.md): Lord Rufford is the county's most eligible bachelor, charming, indolent, and acutely sensitive to any hint that a woman is choosing him rather than the reverse. His dispute with the tenant Goarly over a poisoned fox draw
- [Lawrence Twentyman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lawrence_twentyman.md): Larry Twentyman is the most prosperous young farmer in Dillsborough, good-natured, hard-riding, and universally liked, except by the one person whose affection he most wants. Mary Masters has refused him, and he gives hi
- [John Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/john_morton.md): John Morton has spent years abroad in the Foreign Office and returns to Bragton as its new squire, a role for which his long absence has poorly prepared him. He is drawn to Arabella Trefoil, though he suspects her motive
- [Reginald Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/reginald_morton.md): Reginald Morton lives quietly near Dillsborough, a bookish man whose family's long legal defeat has left him estranged from Bragton and its new master. He refuses Mrs. Hopkins's invitation to step inside the house, thoug
- [Lady Ushant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lady_ushant.md): Lady Ushant raised Mary Masters in girlhood and remains the one gentle force pulling her toward Cheltenham and a life above her father's law office. Mrs. Masters resents her bitterly, calling her invitations sly interfer
- [Lady Augustus Trefoil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lady_augustus_trefoil.md): Lady Augustus moves through Rufford Hall and Bragton with the easy assurance of a somebody, angling for a wealthy match while Lady Penwether watches her with open suspicion. Her daughter's beauty is her chief asset, and 
- [Mr. Masters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mr_masters.md): Mr. Masters is a respectable solicitor whose domestic authority collapses the moment Mrs. Masters begins to shout, so that his one firm declaration—that Mary shall visit Lady Ushant—ends with him leaving his own house fo
- [Mounser Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mounser_green.md): Mounser Green holds a comfortable desk at the Foreign Office, arrives at half-past twelve and stays till seven, and treats the marriage prospects of John Morton and Arabella Trefoil as the day's chief business. He is the
- [Goarly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/goarly.md): Goarly is a tenant so unfortunate with his land that he can hardly feed his children, and he has taken on Lord Rufford over seven shillings and sixpence an acre of damaged crops. The Senator admires him for killing the f
- [Mr. Runciman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mr_runciman.md): Mr. Runciman keeps the best inn in Dillsborough and knows exactly where his loyalties lie, which is why he almost turns Senator Gotobed away for sympathising with Goarly. Only Mrs. Runciman's calculation of ten shillings
- [Mrs. Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mrs_morton.md): As John Morton's mother and mistress of Bragton, she embodies the old county pride that the novel keeps testing against new money, American manners, and her son's wavering engagements. Her refusal even to hear Reginald M
- [Lord Augustus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lord_augustus.md): Lord Augustus Trefoil belongs to that stratum of titled Englishmen who possess the name but not the means, and whose family arrangements are negotiated like treaties by stronger spouses. His daughter Arabella must hunt a
- [Lady Penwether](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lady_penwether.md): Lady Penwether moves through Rufford Hall with the easy authority of a woman who knows everyone worth knowing and every secret worth keeping. She wants her brother married, but not to a penniless schemer, and her smiling
- [Kate Masters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/kate_masters.md): In the Masters family at Dillsborough, Kate is the spirited counterweight to her sister Mary's quieter endurance and her mother's volcanic rages. She watches the household storms over Mary's visit to Bragton with the sha
- [Senator Gotobed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/senator_gotobed.md): A visiting American senator lodging at Bragton, Gotobed pursues truth with a zeal that scandalizes his hosts, whether he is defending the unpopular Goarly against Lord Rufford or interrogating the game laws at dinner. Hi
- [Lord Mistletoe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lord_mistletoe.md): As the Duke's eldest son, member for the county, and a man with a large family of his own, Lord Mistletoe represents the solid, unromantic alternative in Arabella's marriage calculations. His mother's household at Mistle
- [Sir George Penwether](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/sir_george_penwether.md): Sir George belongs to the comfortable English gentry whose country houses serve as stages for the marriage games of others. Married to the determined Lady Penwether, he is part of the family circle watching Arabella Tref
- [Bearside](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/bearside.md): A lawyer involved in the Dillsborough legal affairs.
- [Nickem](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/nickem.md): A detective hired to investigate the poaching case.
- [Miss Penge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/miss_penge.md): A wealthy heiress courted by Lord Rufford.
- [Tony Tuppett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/tony_tuppett.md): A groom at Rufford Hall, loyal to Lord Rufford.
- [Captain Glomax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/captain_glomax.md): A hunting enthusiast and friend of Lord Rufford.
- [Scrobby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/scrobby.md): A farmer accused of poisoning game, central to a trial.
- [Major Caneback](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/major_caneback.md): A military man and hunting companion who meets a tragic end.
- [John Runce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/john_runciman.md): An old servant at Bragton.
- [Mr. Mainwaring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mr_mainwaring.md): A young clergyman who dines with the Senator.
- [Lord Drummond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lord_drummond.md): A Scottish peer and friend of Lord Rufford.
- [Captain Battersby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/captain_battersby.md): A military man who courts Arabella Trefoil.
- [Archibald Currie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/archibald_currie.md): A lawyer involved in the Morton family legal matters.
- [Duchess of Omnium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/duchess_of_omnium.md): A high-society hostess who appears at social events.
- [Mrs. Connop Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/mrs_connop_green.md): An elderly widow and mother of Mounser Green.
- [Dolly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/dolly.md): A young woman in Dillsborough society.
- [Dr. Nupper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/dr_nupper.md): A local doctor in Dillsborough.
- [Lady Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/lady_chiltern.md): A society friend of Lady Penwether.
- [Young Hoffmann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/young_hoffmann.md): A young man from a local family.
- [Charley Glossop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_american_senator_se/characters/charley_glossop.md): Son of Lord Glossop.

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