The Innocence of Father Brown · Character
Wilfred Bohun
The Reverend and Honourable Wilfred Bohun, an ascetic aristocrat whose dawn prayers and Gothic obsessions shadow his dissolute brother's scandalous nights.
supporting
Also known as The Rev. and Hon. Wilfred Bohun, Bohun, The Rev. Wilfred Bohun, The Rev. Wilfred, The shaken Wilfred, Mr. Bohun, The Reverend Wilfred
First appearance: the secret garden
As a supporting figure in The Innocence of Father Brown, Wilfred Bohun is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The devout curate and brother of the victim; he is nervous and disturbed, having warned his brother about thunderbolts, and leads Father Brown into the church.
Wilfred Bohun belongs to an ancient family rotted into drink and dandy degeneracy, and he has answered that decay with black-clad piety, kneeling in crypts and belfries rather than at the altar. His brother, Colonel Norman, is his opposite: a wolfish, yellow-haired sensualist drinking through the small hours, and the two meet at dawn in a street that will soon hold a corpse. Some whisper that Wilfred loves Gothic architecture more than God, and that his morbid thirst for beauty is only a purer turn of his brother's vice, a suspicion that makes his devoutness feel precarious rather than safe.
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- Psychological
- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Witnesses to a crime
- Protagonist
- Italian family crime
- Military and aristocratic scandal
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Father Brown
psychological · negative
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- Colonel Pound
professional · negative
- Father Brown
psychological · negative
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- Father Brown
psychological · negative
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- Colonel Pound
professional · negative
- Colonel Pound
professional · negative
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