# General Feversham — The Four Feathers character guide

> General Feversham in The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Feversham, old General Feversham, Old Feversham

**First appearance:** 0003-i-a-crimean-night

## Snapshot

A retired Crimean general who sits erect on his terrace and expects his son Harry to inherit a soldier's life as naturally as the family portraits on the wall.

## Who they are

General Feversham presides over Broad Place with a bony face and steel-blue eyes that suggest a barrenness of mind—a man who lets slip whatever he cannot understand. He schedules Harry's introduction to his old comrades on the anniversary of the Redan attack, the very night Harry was born, as if to stamp the boy with the family's military destiny. His rigid expectations become the pressure against which Harry's choices, and the novel's central question of courage, are measured.

## Relationships

### [Durrance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/durrance)

_professional_

Durrance and General Feversham share a professional military relationship, with Durrance respecting the General's authority.

### [Harry Feversham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/harry_feversham)

_family_

General Feversham is Harry's father, and their relationship is strained by the General's disappointment in Harry's choices.

### [Lieutenant Sutch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/lieutenant_sutch)

_professional_

General Feversham and Sutch have a professional military relationship, with Sutch respecting the General's rank and experience.

### [Ethne Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/ethne_eustace)

_family_

Ethne is the fiancée of General Feversham's son, and their relationship is formal and somewhat distant.

### [Harry Feversham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/harry_feversham)

_family_

General Feversham is Harry's father, and their relationship is strained by the General's disappointment in Harry's choices.

### [Durrance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/durrance)

_professional_

Durrance and General Feversham share a professional military relationship, with Durrance respecting the General's authority.

### [Durrance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/durrance)

_professional_

Durrance and General Feversham share a professional military relationship, with Durrance respecting the General's authority.

### [Ethne Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/ethne_eustace)

_family_

Ethne is the fiancée of General Feversham's son, and their relationship is formal and somewhat distant.

### [Lieutenant Sutch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/lieutenant_sutch)

_professional_

General Feversham and Sutch have a professional military relationship, with Sutch respecting the General's rank and experience.

### [Lieutenant Sutch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/lieutenant_sutch)

_professional_

General Feversham and Sutch have a professional military relationship, with Sutch respecting the General's rank and experience.

### [Harry Feversham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/harry_feversham)

_family_

General Feversham is Harry's father, and their relationship is strained by the General's disappointment in Harry's choices.

### [Ethne Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/characters/ethne_eustace)

_family_

Ethne is the fiancée of General Feversham's son, and their relationship is formal and somewhat distant.

## In the story

### [The Four Feathers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/the-four-feathers)

Harry's father, a man of strict military honor, who is deeply shamed by his son's actions and refuses to offer comfort.

### [I: A Crimean Night](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/i-a-crimean-night)

Hosts the Crimean anniversary dinner, proud of his military past and expecting his son to follow in his footsteps.

### [VI: Harry Feversham’s Plan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/vi-harry-feversham-s-plan)

Harry visited him in Surrey to confess his disgrace face to face.

### [General Feversham’s Portraits Are Appeased](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/xxvi-general-feversham-s-portraits-are-appeased)

Initially refuses to discuss Harry, but is moved by Durrance's account and agrees to support Harry's return.

### [XXXIV: The End](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/xxxiv-the-end)

Sits on the terrace, reads letters, and remains perplexed about Harry's choices and Durrance's role as best man.

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