# The Maid of Sker — Character guide

> Key figures in The Maid of Sker by R. D. Blackmore.

- [Davy Llewellyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/narrator_davy.md): A poor, proud fisherman with a navy coat and a cottage he'd match against any castle, who hauls an orphan girl off the shore and talks himself into keeping her.
- [Bardie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/bardie.md): A tiny, imperious castaway whose lisping demands and highborn manners bewilder the fisherfolk who rescue her, and whose grey eyes carry more sorrow than any child's should.
- [Sir Philip Bampfylde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/sir_philip_bampfylde.md): A wealthy squire and magistrate whose family, lands, and name sit at the center of the county's tangled affairs, and whose interest in a certain foundling changes everything.
- [Parson Chowne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/parson_chowne.md): A black-tempered clergyman who rides his horses to ruin, keeps a groom in terror, and schemes after money and beauty with a vengeance that never sleeps.
- [Bunny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/bunny.md): Davy's warmhearted, simple daughter, who mothers the strange little castaway with a handkerchief and a lap, then learns to stand aside for higher breeding.
- [Captain Rodney Bluett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/captain_bluett.md): A young naval lieutenant of good family and easy manners, who dines at the captain's table and finds his future tangled with a girl from the shore.
- [Captain Drake Bampfylde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/drake_bampfylde.md): Drake Bampfylde commands the seventy-four-gun Bellona, where he dines his officers on Christmas Day and runs a tight, cheerful ship. He is decisive but open to counsel, asking Davy's opinion only after settling his own, 
- [Hezekiah Perkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/hezekiah_perkins.md): Hezekiah Perkins serves as Parson Chowne's eyes and ears, a man whose nasty face and filthy dandling of children mark him as thoroughly untrustworthy. When he steals little Bardie out to show her the baby-corpse, Davy's 
- [Colonel Lougher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/colonel_lougher.md): Colonel Lougher is the mild, deliberate gentleman whose instinct is to see to the bottom of things before rushing in, unlike his quicker sister Lady Bluett. He initially takes Bardie for a Kenfig nobody, but her pretty m
- [Watkin Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/watkin_thomas.md): Watkin Thomas is the farmer's son who befriends little Bardie on the sands, carving the dolls that sit in her sand-chair and later plunging in to save her when she runs after Patty Green. He is poor, pale, and dutiful, l
- [Miss Delushy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/miss_delushy.md): Miss Delushy, whose name is a corruption of Andalusia, is the one woman of superior mind Davy has ever encountered, and she has taken good care never to acquire a husband. She attaches herself to Davy with jealous posses
- [Parson Jack Rambone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/parson_jack_rambone.md): Parson Jack Rambone, the Reverend John Rambone, is a clergyman whose lineage may outrank Chowne's but whose conduct does not, keeping a spy at the back of the premises and haggling over guineas and dog-whistles. He emplo
- [Evan Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/evan_thomas.md): Evan Thomas belongs to the labouring community around Sker, a man whose presence in his own house is invoked by his wife as a guarantee of honesty when strangers knock at night. He is an 'outrageous man to eat' when drun
- [Master Roger Berkrolles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/roger_berkrolles.md): Master Berkrolles is a man of too much mind for joking, trusted enough to hold Davy Llewellyn's saved wages and to speak plainly about what the child Bunny will need if her protector is lost at sea. He answers her pierci
- [Lady Bluett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/lady_bluett.md): Lady Bluett moves easily among children and knows exactly how to unlock the heart of innocence, inviting dolls to tea and listening to their histories until the castaway dines in good society for the first time. She orde
- [Moxy Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/moxy_thomas.md): Moxy Thomas keeps a house frayed with cobwebs and corners a navy man would be rope-ended for, yet she is shaped by nature for a thoroughly good and lively woman, and her slow step and sharp Welsh challenge at the latch g
- [Sandy Macraw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/sandy_macraw.md): Sandy Macraw is a seafaring companion of Davy Llewellyn, a man whose past gives his silent judgements unusual force. When he fixes Davy with a gaze of pity mingled with contempt, the narrator finds himself all abroad abo
- [Miss Isabel Carey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/isabel_carey.md): Miss Isabel Carey is the Honourable Isabel, a woman of superior mind whom the narrator claims to have carefully kept clear of, and whose thrice-disappointed history makes her a wary judge of men. She is courted by Captai
- [Dyo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/dyo.md): Dyo is the steady friend Evan Llewellyn calls on when thieves from Kenfig threaten the shore, trusted to fetch the loaded gun from the clock-case and rally the boys. He loves a keg of rum, as his master teases him, yet o
- [Master Heaviside](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/master_heaviside.md): Heaviside is a seaman-schoolmaster who has set up a snug cabin in Davy's old ferryboat on the Tawe's brink, a retreat from the bosom of his family. Seduced into rapid matrimony with the sharp Nanette, he has six children
- [Justice Anthony Stew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/justice_anthony_stew.md): Squire Stew arrives at Davy's own house with Sir Philip, seated on the best chairs, and reopens the fish-selling and poaching questions Davy thought settled. He distrusts truth unless it comes out to his own corkscrew, a
- [Captain Fuzzy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/fuzzy.md): Captain Fuzzy moves through the coves and sandhills where wreckers, smugglers, and revenue men trade favors and suspicions. He aids Davy in the tangled business of the shore, and his alias suggests a man who has learned 
- [Marly Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/marly_mary.md): Marly Mary, called Polly by the household, is one of the women who tends Bardie in the lonely house at Sker, and she clings to the child with a fierce, unthanked devotion. Thrice disappointed and careful never to have a 
- [Mr. Jack Wildman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/jack_wildman.md): Jack Wildman lies on his deathbed off Egypt, gasping out his last words between draughts of brandy and water, with Cannibals Dick and Joe nodding confirmation. Taken from a race of naked people living in holes at Nympton
- [Jerry Toms](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/jerry_toms.md): A coxswain and sailor acquaintance.
- [Bang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/bang.md): A dog owned by Davy.
- [Mother Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/mother_jones.md): An elderly woman who helps care for Bardie.
- [Nanette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/nanette.md): A nursemaid to Bardie.
- [Crowner Bowles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/crowner_bowles.md): The local coroner.
- [Isaac Hutchings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/isaac_hutchings.md): An old fisherman and friend of Davy.
- [Mr. Crumpy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/crumpy.md): A local tradesman.
- [Snap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/snap.md): A dog owned by Davy.
- [Captain Foley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/captain_foley.md): A naval captain under whom Drake serves.
- [Harry Savage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/harry_savage.md): A young man and acquaintance of the Bampfyldes.
- [Master Stoyle Chowne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/stoyle_chowne.md): Parson Chowne's son.
- [Captain Bethel Jose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/bethel_jose.md): A sea captain and acquaintance.
- [Polly Cockhanterbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/polly_cockhanterbury.md): A young woman and acquaintance.
- [Captain Vellacott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/captain_vellacott.md): A sea captain.
- [Felix Farley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_maid_of_sker_se/characters/felix_farley.md): A newspaper editor mentioned in the story.

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