# Tom Burrows — The Perpetual Curate character guide

> Tom Burrows in The Perpetual Curate by Margaret Oliphant.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Tom, Thomas

**First appearance:** 0019-xviii

## Who they are

A young man, possibly a suitor or laborer.

## In the story

### [Mr. Wentworth's Easter Sermon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perpetual_curate_se/chapters/iv)

Tom Burrows's six children are baptized, with the new baby presented by Lucy, after Frank's insistence awakened a fatherly conscience.

### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perpetual_curate_se/chapters/xxxii)

Mentioned as the only person in the district who does not look askance at Mr. Wentworth.

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