# The Claverings — Character guide

> Key figures in The Claverings by Anthony Trollope.

- [Harry Clavering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/harry_clavering.md): Harry Clavering is a college fellow and rector's son, admired for his looks and talk but cursed with a fickleness his creator cheerfully admits to. Engaged to the steady, adoring Florence Burton, he cannot quite close th
- [Julia Brabazon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/julia_brabazon.md): Julia Brabazon once chose Lord Ongar's title over Harry Clavering's love, and she has paid for it in a miserable marriage and a widowhood shadowed by scandal. Now Lady Ongar, richer and harder, she greets Harry with a co
- [Florence Burton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/florence_burton.md): Florence Burton arrives at Clavering Rectory windblown and dowdy, immediately swallowed by the affectionate Clavering sisters and folded into their wedding preparations. She is earnest, self-doubting, and deeply attached
- [Captain Archibald Clavering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/archibald_clavering.md): Captain Archie Clavering lives on his brother's charity, ringing bells and minding horses at Clavering Park while dodging his creditors in town. When Lady Ongar's fortune makes her the family's most valuable prospect, Si
- [Sir Hugh Clavering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/sir_hugh_clavering.md): Sir Hugh Clavering is a man who knows how many shillings are in a pound and resents every one of them that leaves his pocket. He keeps a house in Berkeley Square he would rather let, tolerates Archie only while Archie is
- [Mr. Saul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/samuel_saul.md): Mr. Saul has served the parish of Clavering faithfully for years, and his reward is a curacy too small to support a wife — specifically Fanny Clavering, who loves him back. His repeated proposals and the explosive quarre
- [Fanny Clavering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/fanny_clavering.md): Fanny Clavering is the daughter of the Clavering rectory, a demure young woman whose calm exterior conceals a heart caught between duty and desire. She has refused Mr. Saul twice because he has not a shilling, yet she no
- [Mrs. Burton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/cecilia_burton.md): Mrs. Burton is the higher authority at Stratton to whom Florence's fate is referred, a mother whose consent, once given, transforms hesitation into trousseau and fixed dates. She is practical and affectionate, but her re
- [Sophie Gordeloup](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/sophie_gordeloup.md): Sophie Gordeloup shares Lady Ongar's Bolton Street house, a woman who has witnessed Julia's saddest moments and can tell of indignities that would have killed other women. Julia is afraid of her yet cannot bring herself 
- [Mrs. Clavering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/mrs_clavering.md): Mrs. Clavering is the steady heart of the rectory, a woman whose advice her husband rarely declines and who sees clearly what her daughter Fanny will not say aloud. She boldly proposes Mr. Saul for the living, knowing it
- [Captain Doodles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/doodles.md): Captain Doodles — or Boodle, as he is variously called — is a short-haired, tight-trousered man of the world who arrives at Sophie's door on delicate business and is promptly taken for a housebreaker. He knits his brows 
- [Lord Ongar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/lord_ongar.md): Julia's deceased husband, a cruel and dissipated nobleman.
- [Count Pateroff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/count_pateroff.md): Count Pateroff is a member of the Travellers', a man of uncertain age and easy English manners whose light blue eyes carry a restlessness that belies his composure. He meets Harry at the Beaufort on Lady Ongar's behalf, 
- [Theodore Burton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/theodore_burton.md): Theodore Burton is the brother-in-law Harry Clavering keeps failing to dodge, a principled office man who invites his future relative to dine and read in Onslow Crescent with disarming directness. He is the family's quie
- [Captain Boodle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/captain_boodle.md): A friend of Archie Clavering, involved in his schemes.
- [Hermione](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/hermione.md): Lady Ongar's younger sister, a quiet and unhappy girl.
- [Jack Stuart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/jack_stuart.md): A friend of Harry's from his university days.
- [Mary Fielding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/mary_fielding.md): A young woman courted by Theodore Burton.
- [Colonel Schmoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/colonel_schmoff.md): A German officer and acquaintance of the Gordeloups.
- [Edward Fielding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_claverings_se/characters/edward_fielding.md): Mary Fielding's brother, a clergyman.

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