# The Inheritors — Character guide

> Key figures in The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): He is Etchingham Granger, an unsuccessful novelist who takes journalistic work and drifts into the orbit of the Duc de Mersch's expedition and the men who finance it. His vanity as a neglected artist and his weakness for
- [Mr. Fox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/fox.md): Fox runs the Hour and recruits the narrator, dispensing with ceremony while lunching with actresses and sizing up copy between courses. He is a founder fighting a cynical Chancellor for the soul of a government, using me
- [Mr. Callan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/callan.md): Callan is the great man whose home life the narrator visits, a slow-speaking stage-hogger surrounded by local admirers and possessed of immense influence over a class of readers. He is being maneuvered into writing an ex
- [The Duc de Mersch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/duc_de_mersch.md): De Mersch is the grand duc whose Greenland scheme is promoted by Churchill's railway bill and bankrolled by the colossal Halderschrodt. He is courted, flattered, and ultimately treated as a detail by the woman who uses h
- [Soane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/soane.md): Soane arrives ill, demands champagne, settles for coffee, and writes Fox's leaders from a sofa with the grand manner of a man who has lived and does not care a curse. His metaphor of the tall clock with the mainspring br
- [Mr. Gurnard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/gurnard.md): Gurnard is the narrator's brother-in-law and, by the sister's account, a Dimensionist who uses Fox and Churchill as pieces before discarding them. He passes for a cynic while Fox plays the Old Morality business against h
- [Mr. Churchill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/churchill.md): Churchill moves through drawing rooms and Arctic schemes with the air of a man of the world among men of the world, yet his slow commercial English and sub-sulkiness betray a resentment at having left some higher sphere.
- [Miss Churchill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/miss_churchill.md): Miss Churchill occupies the drawing rooms of the great as the Duc's intended, a figure whose sculptured white hand and lithe, serpentine motion linger in the narrator's mind. She is the woman whose tirades he cannot comp
- [The Jenkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/jenkins.md): A family or group referenced by the narrator, possibly servants.
- [Cromwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/cromwell.md): A historical figure referenced in political discussions.
- [Mrs. Hartly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/mrs_hartly.md): A woman of society, possibly a landlady or hostess.
- [Mr. Polehampton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/polehampton.md): A minor official or acquaintance of the narrator.
- [Miss Etchingham Granger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/miss_etchingham_granger.md): A young woman from a prominent family, connected to the Grangers.
- [Monsieur Radet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/radet.md): A French associate of the Duc de Mersch.
- [Arthur Edwards](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/arthur_edwards.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or acquaintance.
- [Mrs. Etchingham Granger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inheritors_se/characters/mrs_etchingham_granger.md): A matriarch of the Etchingham Granger family.

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