# The Last Chronicle of Barset — Character guide

> Key figures in The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope.

- [Grace Crawley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/grace_crawley.md): Grace is the eldest surviving child of the impoverished Crawleys of Hogglestock, raised in a poverty her father feels as disgrace and her mother endures as daily fact. When Major Grantly's attentions make her the talk of
- [Lily Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/lily_dale.md): Lily Dale is the niece of Squire Dale of Allington, admired throughout Barsetshire for her wit and her refusal to marry. Having been engaged and abandoned by Adolphus Crosbie, she has built her identity around that wound
- [Johnny Eames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/johnny_eames.md): Johnny Eames is a young private secretary at the Income Tax Office, risen from humble origins through the patronage of his cousin Lord De Guest. He has loved Lily Dale since childhood and cannot stop, even though she has
- [Mr. Crawley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_crawley.md): Josiah Crawley has spent ten years in the miserable parish of Hogglestock, earning one hundred and thirty pounds a year and the reputation of a madman among the farmers, though the brickmakers of Hoggle End respect him f
- [Major Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/major_grantly.md): Henry Grantly is the son of Archdeacon Grantly of Plumstead Episcopi, a man whose family pride is matched only by his dread of scandal. The major has fallen in love with Grace Crawley, the daughter of a clergyman accused
- [Mrs. Proudie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_proudie.md): Mrs. Proudie is the undisputed mistress of the bishop's palace at Barchester, a woman whose energy and certainty make her husband's authority merely nominal. When Mr. Crawley insults her and is accused of theft, she dema
- [Archdeacon Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/archdeacon_grantly.md): Dr. Grantly commands respect and obedience in equal measure, a man of wealth and ecclesiastical authority whose sense of propriety governs every judgment. When his son Major Grantly insists on marrying Grace Crawley—daug
- [Conway Dalrymple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/conway_dalrymple.md): Conway Dalrymple has risen from drinking threepenny beer to painting duchesses and dining at fashionable Bayswater tables, his portraits celebrated for their narrative flair. His friendship with John Eames and his intima
- [Mrs. Dobbs Broughton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_dobbs_broughton.md): Maria Dobbs Broughton presides over a fashionable Bayswater mansion funded by her husband's City speculations, her beauty immortalized in Conway Dalrymple's paintings. When Dobbs Broughton's finances collapse and he take
- [Thomas Toogood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/thomas_toogood.md): Thomas Toogood is everything the proud, austere Crawley is not: genial, practical, and unbothered by social niceties. He throws himself into Crawley's defense with energy and good humor, tracking down the missing cheque 
- [Adolphus Crosbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/adolphus_crosbie.md): Adolphus Crosbie once chose ambition over love, abandoning Lily Dale for a match that promised social elevation—and found only misery. Now married into the cold De Courcy family and burdened by debt and regret, he writes
- [Clara Van Siever](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/clara_van_siever.md): Clara Van Siever possesses both money and independence of mind, qualities her mother Mrs. Van Siever regards as inconvenient obstacles to a profitable marriage with the oily Mr. Musselboro. Pressured relentlessly at home
- [Mrs. Thorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_thorne.md): Once the celebrated heiress Miss Dunstable, she now moves through Barsetshire society as Mrs. Thorne, wife to the doctor and intimate of the archdeacon's circle. Her money and independence give her a freedom few women in
- [Lady Lufton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/lady_lufton.md): Lady Lufton rules Framley with a mother's love and a bishop's instinct for order, treating the parish as an extension of her own drawing-room. Her son Ludovic chafes under her ecclesiastical enthusiasms, while her daught
- [Miss Demolines](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/miss_demolines.md): In her mother's Porchester Terrace drawing-room, Madalina stages scenes of mystery and heartbreak, treating romance as a game she intends to win. Johnny Eames knows he is only amusing himself with her, yet her letters an
- [Mr. Harding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_harding.md): Septimus Harding has spent his long life in the cathedral close, a man so unassuming that no one called him popular until the day he was gone. His two daughters, the archdeacon's wife and the dean's, walk together behind
- [Mr. Robarts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_robarts.md): Mark Robarts moves between the magistrates, the lawyers, and the clerical gossips of Barsetshire, trying to serve a friend whose guilt or innocence he cannot determine. Bound to Mr. Crawley by an old obligation, he press
- [Mrs. Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_grantly.md): Mrs. Grantly lives between a husband who vows never to receive Grace Crawley and a son who threatens to leave England rather than give her up. She will not pretend to wish the match, yet she will not turn her back on her
- [Mrs. Arabin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_arabin.md): Mrs. Arabin moves through Barsetshire drawing rooms with a quiet purpose that belies her easy manners, seeking out Lily Dale at Chaldicotes to plead the case of the devoted Johnny Eames. She is a woman who repays her deb
- [Dr. Tempest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/dr_tempest.md): Dr. Tempest is the kind of clergyman whose good sense makes him valuable to bishops and dangerous to their wives, a man who agrees to dine at the palace while privately resolving to keep his visit short. He knows that Cr
- [Miss Prettyman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/miss_prettyman.md): Miss Anne Prettyman governs her school with the same confidence she brings to correcting her sister's grasp of criminal law, certain that a committed man is not a convicted one. She tries to console Grace with careful tr
- [Augustus Musselboro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/augustus_musselboro.md): Musselboro keeps a dark closet of an office for appearances but works mostly in Broughton's room, lending money and trading on account in schemes whose real partner is a woman whose name never appears on the doorpost. He
- [Mrs. Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_dale.md): Mrs. Dale is the quiet center of Allington's domestic life, a mother whose affection for Johnny Eames is genuine but whose first loyalty is to a daughter still scarred by Crosbie's desertion. She is spoken of as one whos
- [Sir Raffle Buffle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/sir_raffle_buffle.md): Sir Raffle Buffle cannot mention his private secretary without explaining that Johnny's Continental journey was made with, and could not have been made without, his sanction, and he spars with Harold Smith over who truly
- [Mr. Thumble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_thumble.md): Thumble is Mrs. Proudie's instrument, a poor curate who borrows authority from the bishop's letter he carries and the fact that, unlike Crawley, he owes no man money. Ordered to be firm, he arrives at Hogglestock parsona
- [Mrs. Van Siever](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_van_siever.md): Mrs. Van Siever conducts her affairs in scraps of paper without greeting or signature, and expects Clara to marry the pliant Musselboro whether she likes it or not. Her weapon is not argument but menace: she promises to 
- [Jane Crawley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/jane_crawley.md): Jane lives inside the family's relentless scarcity, watching her mother beg for necessities her father forbids and bearing the disgrace of poverty that shames him far more than it shames her. She belongs to the parsonage
- [Mr. Dobbs Broughton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_dobbs_broughton.md): Broughton presides over a household shadowed by debt and a wife, Maria, whose confidences to Mrs. Van Siever reveal how little she understood the man she married. His affairs in Hook Court entangle him with Musselboro an
- [John Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/john_walker.md): Walker is the professional conscience of the scandal, consulted on the stolen cheque and the tangled evidence surrounding Dan Stringer and Jem Scuttle. He is cautious where others are eager, advising that the case agains
- [Mr. Soames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_soames.md): Soames is a working man of the diocese, respected in his small sphere, whose cheque for twenty pounds goes astray and is traced to Mr. Crawley. He is not a villain, but the loss he reports becomes the instrument of a poo
- [Emily Dunstable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/emily_dunstable.md): Emily Dunstable enters the Barsetshire world as the wealthy young woman Bernard Dale is expected to marry, her money as welcome to the Allington estate as her photograph is pleasing to the squire. She is eager to meet Li
- [Lady Julia De Guest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/lady_julia_de_guest.md): Lady Julia De Guest belongs to the older generation of Barsetshire gentry, a woman accustomed to having her way in family matters and genuinely generous in the causes she adopts. She classifies young women into sheep and
- [Fowler Pratt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/fowler_pratt.md): A friend of Johnny Eames and a fellow clerk in London, often involved in social scenes.
- [Mrs. Robarts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mrs_robarts.md): The wife of Mr. Robarts, a gentle and hospitable woman at Framley Parsonage.
- [Bernard Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/bernard_dale.md): Lily Dale's cousin, a captain in the army who courts Emily Dunstable.
- [Bishop Proudie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/bishop_proudie.md): Bishop Proudie is a prudent, sagacious man in his own right, but at home he is teased and overborne by Mrs. Proudie, who treats the palace as her own and the clergy as her subjects. When Crawley's alleged theft gives her
- [Mr. Chadwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_chadwick.md): The bishop's steward and legal advisor in Barchester.
- [Lord Lufton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/lord_lufton.md): The son of Lady Lufton, a young nobleman who appears briefly in the story.
- [Mr. Cradell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_cradell.md): A clerk and friend of Johnny Eames in London, often involved in comic scenes.
- [Mary Eames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mary_eames.md): Johnny Eames's sister, married to John Walker, living in Silverbridge.
- [Mr. Butterwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_butterwell.md): A colleague of Sir Raffle Buffle in the government office.
- [Mr. Snapper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_snapper.md): A curate sent to Hogglestock who suffers from Mr. Crawley's wrath.
- [Old Lady Demolines](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/old_lady_demolines.md): Madalina Demolines's mother, an eccentric and manipulative old woman.
- [Posy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/posy.md): The young daughter of Major Grantly, a sweet child who endears herself to Grace Crawley.
- [Edith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/edith.md): Major Grantly's younger daughter, a charming little girl.
- [Mr. Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/mr_dale.md): The uncle of Lily Dale and Bernard Dale, a squire living at Allington.
- [Dan Stringer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/dan_stringer.md): A disreputable man suspected of stealing the cheque that Mr. Crawley is accused of taking.
- [Dean Arabin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/dean_arabin.md): The Dean of Barchester, husband of Mrs. Arabin, a scholarly and kind clergyman.
- [Dr. Thorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/dr_thorne.md): A doctor and landowner, husband of the former Miss Dunstable, living at Chaldicotes.
- [Flurry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/flurry.md): A horse owned by Major Grantly, mentioned in hunting scenes.
- [Griselda Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/characters/griselda_grantly.md): The daughter of Archdeacon Grantly, married to Lord Dumbello, mentioned briefly.

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