# The Courts of the Morning — Character guide

> Key figures in The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan.

- [Janet Roylance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/janet_roylance.md): Janet moves through the Olifa crisis as wife, confidante, and interrogator, the one who asks the awkward question Sandy's second-reading speeches must answer. Her nerve is real but untested in the way Sandy means: she ha
- [Archie Roylance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/archie_roylance.md): Archie swings his legs from table corners, asks the blunt questions, and lends his pilot's instincts and easy humour to a conspiracy he did not come looking for. His limp and his flannels make him look harmless, which is
- [Sandy Arbuthnot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/sandy_arbuthnot.md): Sandy's name is dragged through a circumstantial slander he never bothers to deny, and his long absences let the worst version of the story stand. Behind the gossip he is the agent Blenkiron's warnings point toward, the 
- [John S. Blenkiron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/john_scantlebury_blenkiron.md): Blenkiron's letters arrive unsigned but unmistakable, scrawled with a private hieroglyphic that means SOS to those who know how to read him. Washington respects his talents too much to move officially, so his disappearan
- [Luis de Marzaniga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/luis_de_marzaniga.md): Colonel Lindburg's report clears Don Luis of everything, which is exactly the kind of clearance that should make a careful policeman uneasy. He advises old Don Mario on young stock, visits Veiro, and is seen in places a 
- [Castor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/castor.md): Castor is not cruel for cruelty's sake; he is inhuman, using men as a furnace uses coke and loyal to what he believes is right with the scruple of a saint. He has money from the Gran Seco, a camouflaged base in Olifa, an
- [General Lossberg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/alexander_lossberg.md): Lossberg belongs to the enemy camp in the Gran Seco, a professional soldier lent to Olifa's cause, yet the men he faces are the same ones who outwitted him on the Western Front. His reputation precedes him as a tactician
- [Barbara Dasent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/barbara_dasent.md): Barbara keeps the hospital stores of the hidden refuge, working early and late with her peons while men suffer in the plains below. She went into the enterprise with her eyes open, as she tells the restless Gobernador, a
- [Geordie Hamilton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/geordie_hamilton.md): Geordie accompanies Archie Roylance as servant and companion, the kind of retainer Buchan heroes take for granted and readers come to love. His plain Scottish practicality is a foil to the exotic Olifa and the schemes of
- [Don Alejandro Gedd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/alejandro_gedd.md): Don Alejandro hosts the Roylances at his Spanish-townhouse estate, all Tudor panelling and Italian Renaissance dining-room, and plays the urbane patriot to the hilt. He arranges their visits to his cousin's estancia and 
- [Don Mario Sanfuentes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/mario_sanfuentes.md): Don Mario lives apart from modern Olifa, his dead wife's memory kept company by horses, faded tapestries, and a Murillo from some forgotten Conquistador church. He greets the Roylances with grave courtesy and feeds them 
- [General Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/featherstone_peters.md): Peters is a fifty-year-old veteran of the South African War and the Macedonian gendarmerie, suspected of gunrunning in Morocco, now a captain of the Mines Police. He introduces the mysterious recruit Black to his trooper
- [Señor Romanes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/romaness.md): A mysterious figure in the Gran Seco, possibly an ally.
- [Lieutenant Roger Grayne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/roger_grayne.md): A British naval officer assisting the mission in Olifa.
- [Mr. Roderick Wilbur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/roderick_wilbur.md): An American journalist caught up in the Olifa revolution.
- [Tim Lariarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/tim_lariarty.md): An Irish adventurer and pilot working for the protagonists.
- [General Escrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/escrick.md): A British general involved in the Gran Seco campaign.
- [Ellery Willis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/ellery_willis.md): An American engineer working in the Gran Seco mines.
- [Dan Judson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/dan_judson.md): An American miner and ally in the Gran Seco.
- [Señor Rosas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/rosas.md): A Mexican mercenary working for Castor.
- [General Olivarez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/olivarez.md): An Olifero general loyal to the government.
- [Miguel de Campanillo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/miguel_de_campanillo.md): A young Olifero aristocrat and friend of Luis.
- [Jacques D'Ingraville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/jacques_dingraville.md): A French aviator and mercenary working for Castor.
- [Captain Bobby Latimer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/bobby_latimer.md): A British army officer and friend of Archie.
- [Señor Melville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/melville.md): An Englishman living in the Gran Seco.
- [Palliser-Yeates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/palliser_yeates.md): A British diplomat stationed in Olifa.
- [Señor Aribia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/aribia.md): An Olifero politician and ally of the protagonists.
- [Carlos Rivero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/carlos_rivero.md): An Olifero officer in the Gran Seco army.
- [Radin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/radin.md): A prisoner or informant in the Gran Seco.
- [Laschallas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/laschallas.md): An Olifero character, possibly a politician.
- [Colonel Rogerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/rogerson.md): A British intelligence officer.
- [Dick Hannay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_courts_of_the_morning_se/characters/dick_hannay.md): A famous British spy who appears in the prologue.

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