# The Secret Glory — Character guide

> Key figures in The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen.

- [Ambrose Meyrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/ambrose_meyrick.md): Ambrose moves through Lupton as a boy already claimed by another world: his father drew him aside from the 'evil traffic of the valley' and set him in that endless procession singing its litanies in the mountains, so tha
- [Mr. Horbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/mr_horbury.md): Horbury is, by the narrator's own admission, a very decent specimen of the English schoolmaster — savagely cruel only when suffering from an inflamed liver and offensive superiors, with a defenceless inferior in his powe
- [Nelly Foran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/nelly_foran.md): Nelly tells Ambrose all about herself one night of wild and wonderful transition, and he pointedly does not ask — he has no patience for the plot-novel convention that a hero's happiness must be blasted by a sweetheart's
- [Pelly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/pelly.md): A schoolboy at Lupton, friend or acquaintance of Ambrose.
- [Toby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/toby.md): A schoolboy at Lupton, part of Ambrose's circle.
- [Carrol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/carrol.md): A schoolboy at Lupton, interacts with Ambrose.
- [Rawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/rawson.md): A student at Lupton who suffers misfortune.
- [Bates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/bates.md): A servant or porter at Lupton, observant and wise.
- [Canon Horbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/canon_horbury.md): A deceased clergyman, father or relative of Mr. Horbury.
- [Chesson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/chessson.md): A doctor in the Lupton area.
- [Charles Horbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/charles_horbury.md): Another member of the Horbury family.
- [Madame Sophia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/madame_sophia.md): A mysterious woman, possibly connected to Ambrose's quest.
- [Charles Palmer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/charles_palmer.md): A student at Lupton, unfortunate.
- [Little Phipps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/little_phipps.md): A younger schoolboy at Lupton, often bullied.
- [Nicholas Meyrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/nicholas_meyrick.md): A relative of Ambrose, possibly his father.
- [Mr. Cradock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_glory_se/characters/mr_cradock.md): A local figure in the Lupton area.

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