# The Eustace Diamonds — Character guide

> Key figures in The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope.

- [Lizzie Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lizzie_eustace.md): Lizzie Eustace has married into Portray Castle and out of poverty, and now she means to keep both, whatever the Eustace lawyers and her discarded suitors say. Her genius is performance: she weeps, she veils, she stretche
- [Lucy Morris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lucy_morris.md): Lucy Morris is a treasure though no heroine — cataloguing libraries, planning flower-gardens, and lighting up Fawn Court with a face no one can resist. She loves Frank Greystock without fortune or prospect, and Lady Fawn
- [Frank Greystock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/frank_greystock.md): Frank Greystock is dual in character: on the banks of the Bob he tells himself the world lost for love would be well lost, and in Westminster he swears he will win the game whatever it costs his heart. He is in debt, in 
- [Lord Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lord_fawn.md): Lord Fawn is prudent, diligent, and utterly without poetry — a Peer of Parliament who mastered an earlier disappointment by burying himself in blue-books. Engaged to Lizzie, he panics the moment the diamond scandal threa
- [Sir Griffin Tewett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/sir_griffin_tewett.md): Sir Griffin Tewett is the fool everyone allows to be a fool, yet he has wit enough to counterfeit wealth while his lawsuits multiply against his own family. He pursues Lucinda Roanoke under Mrs. Carbuncle's managing eye,
- [Lady Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lady_fawn.md): Lady Fawn lives year-round at Richmond in a large old-fashioned house with a large old-fashioned garden, ruling a household of unattractive but good-natured daughters and one indispensable governess. She loves Lucy genui
- [Lucinda Roanoke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lucinda_roanoke.md): Lucinda Roanoke is an American-born beauty whose portrait once set the Exhibition arguing whether she was Cleopatra, a poisoner, or the Queen of Sheba. She goes everywhere with her aunt, Mrs. Carbuncle, accepting partner
- [Mr. Camperdown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_camperdown.md): Mr. Camperdown is a sixty-year-old lawyer whose father and grandfather served the Eustaces before him, a connection that lets him speak his mind to the heir with startling freedom. He regards Lady Eustace's claim to the 
- [Mrs. Carbuncle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mrs_carbuncle.md): Mrs. Carbuncle moves through fashionable London on credit and calculation, chaperoning her beautiful niece while angling for her own advantage. She fights Lizzie down to a smaller cheque, then smooths it over with talk o
- [Lady Glencora Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lady_glencora_palliser.md): Lady Glencora Palliser arrives at Lizzie's drawing-room to convey the Duke's sympathy over the lost diamonds and to whisper encouragement about a coming visitor. Her notice is worth more than money to Lizzie, who reads i
- [Mr. Emilius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_emilius.md): Mr. Emilius is a reverend gentleman of uncertain antecedents whose manners and conversation win him praise at Portray and whose eagerness toward Lucinda raises eyebrows. The question of whether he already has a Mrs. Emil
- [Miss Macnulty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/miss_macnulty.md): Miss Macnulty is the faithful, threadbare dependent who trails after Lizzie through country houses and hunting fields, grateful for scraps of notice and careful never to betray a secret she does not possess. She is tease
- [Lord George de Bruce Carruthers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lord_george_de_bruce_carruthers.md): Lord George moves through Lizzie Eustace's set as the kind of man who is useful in a crisis and dangerous in a drawing-room, too experienced to be swept away and too shrewd to be trusted. He knows more about the missing 
- [Sir Florian Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/sir_florian_eustace.md): Lizzie's late husband, who dies shortly after their marriage, leaving her the diamonds.
- [Lady Linlithgow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lady_linlithgow.md): Lady Linlithgow is one of those old women who seem always to have been old, a countess who knows nothing of fear, charity, or the softness of love, yet means to be honest and dutiful in her own severe fashion. She took L
- [Andy Gowran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/andy_gowran.md): A stubborn Scottish tenant at Portray who suspects Lizzie of wrongdoing.
- [John Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/john_eustace.md): Sir Florian's brother, a just man who manages the Eustace estate.
- [Mr. Gager](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/gager.md): A clever detective hired to investigate the theft of the diamonds.
- [Mr. Bunfit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_bunfit.md): A police detective working on the diamond case, often at odds with Gager.
- [Mrs. Hittaway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mrs_hittaway.md): Lord Fawn's married sister, who schemes against Lizzie's marriage to her brother.
- [Patience Crabstick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/patience_crabstick.md): Lizzie's maid, who becomes a key witness in the diamond theft case.
- [Augusta Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/augusta_fawn.md): One of Lord Fawn's sisters, who marries Mr. Hittaway.
- [Arthur Herriot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/arthur_herriot.md): A young man who loves Lucy Morris but is rejected by her.
- [Mr. Dove](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_dove.md): A wise, scholarly barrister who gives legal opinions on the diamond case.
- [Mr. Benjamin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_benjamin.md): A shady jeweler involved in the diamond theft plot.
- [Madame Max Goesler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/madame_max_goesler.md): A wealthy, clever widow and friend of Lady Glencora.
- [Amelia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/amelia.md): One of Lady Fawn's daughters, sensible and outspoken.
- [Billy Cann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/billy_cann.md): A small, clever thief who helps steal the diamonds.
- [Mrs. Greystock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mrs_greystock.md): Frank Greystock's mother, a widow living in poverty.
- [Major Mackintosh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/major_mackintosh.md): A police officer who oversees the diamond investigation.
- [Lydia Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/lydia_fawn.md): One of Lord Fawn's younger sisters.
- [Mr. Smiler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_smiler.md): A criminal accomplice in the diamond robbery.
- [Mr. Bonteen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/mr_bonteen.md): A politician and associate of Mr. Palliser.
- [Barrington Erle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/barrington_erle.md): A political friend of Frank Greystock and Mr. Palliser.
- [MacFarlane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/macfarlane.md): A Scottish lawyer involved in the Eustace estate matters.
- [Ellinor Greystock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/ellinor_greystock.md): Frank Greystock's sister.
- [Plantagenet Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eustace_diamonds_se/characters/plantagenet_palliser.md): A rising politician and Lady Glencora's husband.

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