# The Nebuly Coat — Character guide

> Key figures in The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner.

- [Mr. Westray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/westray.md): Westray arrives in Cullerne as an outsider with a measuring-tape and a tidy mind, lodging with the Joliffes while he inspects the crumbling minster. His orderly habits and considerate manners make him an easy guest, but 
- [Miss Anastasia Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/miss_joliffe_anastasia.md): Anastasia keeps her aunt's lodging-house at Bellevue Lodge and is not permitted to answer the bell when her aunt is home, so her encounter with the dark-clad stranger feels like a scene she has been rehearsing from a nov
- [Lord Blandamer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/lord_blandamer.md): Blandamer is the new lord of the manor, a man of few ornaments and fewer explanations, whose arrival stirs the town's appetite for scandal. His face in an old painting, hidden for sixty years beneath flowers and a caterp
- [Mr. Sharnall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/mr_sharnall.md): Sharnall holds the organ loft at Cullerne Minster, a position that gives him both a public role and a private vantage on the town's secrets. He is troubled, proud, and given to solitary walks, and his knowledge of the ch
- [Miss Euphemia Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/miss_euphemia_joliffe.md): Euphemia is a fixture of the Dorcas meetings, where she sews beautifully, wears her best whatever the season, and has few enemies even in a town where slander is a staple trade. She is foolish in the harmless way of the 
- [Martin Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/martin_joliffe.md): Martin never knew his father and did not live to see his family's decline reversed; he is known chiefly through the recollections of old servants and the grief of his sister Phemie. His Oxford debts forced Farmer Joliffe
- [Sir George Farquhar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/sir_george_farquhar.md): Sir George Farquhar is senior partner of Farquhar and Farquhar, the firm entrusted with restoring Cullerne Minster, and a man whose professional contempt for the Society-for-the-Conservation-of-National-Inheritances ring
- [Canon Parkyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/canon_parkyn.md): Canon Parkyn serves as legal guardian of Cullerne Minster, a man Sir George Farquhar calls no more fit than a lady's-maid to be trusted with such a church, yet who has not done badly in collecting money for the restorati
- [Clerk Janaway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/clerk_janaway.md): Clerk Janaway is the church's longtime factotum, a man whose gossipy recollections of Wydcombe Farm, Sophia Joliffe's singing, and a green caterpillar on a flower painting supply Westray with crucial fragments of Cullern
- [Mrs. Parkyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/mrs_parkyn.md): Wife of Canon Parkyn; a social climber in the community.
- [Sophy Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/sophy_joliffe.md): Sophia Joliffe, remembered as Sophia Flannery after her marriage, was the vivacious young woman whose charm and artistic pretensions made her the talk of Wydcombe and Cullerne. Her habit of painting flowers over an older
- [Mr. Noot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/mr_noot.md): Elderly resident of Cullerne; a source of local lore.
- [Mr. Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/mr_joliffe_senior.md): Deceased father of the Joliffe sisters; former owner of the estate.
- [Bishop of Carisbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/bishop_of_carisbury.md): Diocesan bishop who visits Cullerne Minster.
- [Mr. Rector](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/characters/mr_rector.md): Rector of a nearby parish.

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