# Mr. Soames — The Last Chronicle of Barset character guide

> Mr. Soames in The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Soames

**First appearance:** 0000-i-how-did-he-get-it

## Snapshot

The diocesan surveyor whose missing twenty-pound cheque becomes the spark that sets the whole Crawley scandal alight.

## Who they are

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 poor clergyman's persecution, and his name is spoken in every account of the alleged theft. His role matters because the entire plot turns on what happened to that cheque, and on whether a hardworking, half-broken pastor can be believed against the plain evidence of a piece of paper.

## In the story

### [The Clergyman's House at Hogglestock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/chapters/iv-the-clergyman-s-house-at-hogglestock)

The accuser who dropped the pocketbook; Mrs. Crawley considers him hard and cruel.

### [Mr. Crawley Is Taken to Silverbridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/chapters/viii-mr-crawley-is-taken-to-silverbridge)

Gives evidence about losing the cheque and pocketbook; testifies that he called on Mr. Crawley at Hogglestock.

### [Mr. Toogood at The Dragon of Wantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_chronicle_of_barset_se/chapters/lxxii-mr-toogood-at-the-dragon-of-wantly)

Staunchly believes in Mr. Crawley's guilt; Toogood tries to convince him otherwise but fails.

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