# The Small House at Allington — Character guide

> Key figures in The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope.

- [Lilian Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lilian_dale.md): Lily moves between the Small House and her uncle's great house at Allington, teasing her sister about whether Mr. Crosbie is anything more than a clerk while quietly falling in love with him. Her Dale constancy — obstina
- [Adolphus Crosbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/adolphus_crosbie.md): Crosbie holds a comfortable post in the General Committee Office and moves through country society with the ease of a man who knows his own polish. He has resolved not to marry without money and not to marry for money — 
- [John Eames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/john_eames.md): Johnny Eames earns eighty pounds a year in the Income-tax Office and is dismissed by Lily as a mere clerk — a judgment he feels keenly. He arrives at Allington in spurs and fine gloves, only to find Lily already spoken f
- [Mrs. Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mrs_dale.md): Mrs. Dale lives on her own modest fortune beside her brother-in-law's estate, dependent on the squire's countenance for her girls but never on his charity for herself. Her marriage was disliked by the squire and the two 
- [Isabella Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/isabella_dale.md): Bell is the sister who can be a little angry with Lily, who weighs Mr. Crosbie's merits soberly while Lily teases, and who carries the Dale constancy without the Dale romance. She is courted by her cousin Bernard, an arr
- [Captain Bernard Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/bernard_dale.md): Bernard is the son of Colonel Dale and Lady Fanny of Torquay, and the nearest thing the childless squire has to an heir. He moves between the great house and the Small House with the confidence of a man who assumes his p
- [Lady Alexandrina De Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/alexandrina_de_courcy.md): Lady Alexandrina belongs to the proud, cash-poor De Courcy clan, whose London season is a market in which daughters are priced and exchanged. Married to a man she considers beneath her, she discovers that a husband who c
- [Plantagenet Palliser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/plantagenet_palliser.md): Palliser is a rising man of rank and office, nephew to the great Duke of Omnium and a figure whose approval matters in the circles the De Courcys and Crosbies inhabit. Where others flutter and scheme, he is deliberate, r
- [Dr. Crofts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/dr_crofts.md): Dr. Crofts attends the Dales through Lily's long illness, prescribing rest and getting teased for it by a convalescent who calls him a tyrant. Underneath the professional brusqueness lies an honorable man whose feelings 
- [Lady Julia De Guest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lady_julia_de_guest.md): Lady Julia is the earl's sister, a woman of independent mind and generous impulse who befriends the Small House family and champions Johnny Eames's cause with the squire. She moves easily between the great houses and the
- [Amelia Roper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/amelia_roper.md): Amelia presides over the Burton Crescent lodgings with a mixture of flirtation and calculation, keeping Johnny Eames on a string while weighing her options among the clerks who board there. When Cradell proves willing, s
- [Mr. Cradell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mr_cradell.md): Cradell shares Johnny's office and his lodgings at Mrs. Roper's, where he fancies himself a man of the world and is thoroughly outmatched by Amelia Roper. His letter announcing his engagement — and his assumption of Mrs.
- [Mrs. Lupex](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mrs_lupex.md): Mrs. Lupex holds court in Mrs. Roper's Burton Crescent drawing-room, where her morning negligence and evening finery alternately fascinate and repel the other lodgers. She torments her husband with a relish that seems al
- [Hopkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/hopkins.md): The gardener at the Great House in Allington, a loyal servant.
- [Lady Dumbello](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lady_dumbello.md): A fashionable society beauty, wife of Lord Dumbello.
- [Lady Amelia Gazebee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lady_amelia_gazebee.md): A daughter of the De Courcy family, married to Mortimer Gazebee.
- [Mrs. Roper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mrs_roper.md): Mrs. Roper presides over the cramped, gossipy world of her London boardinghouse, where clerks, married couples, and spinsters share meals and secrets. She values the Lupexes' hundred pounds a year but soon wishes them go
- [Sir Raffle Buffle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/sir_raffle_buffle.md): A pompous senior civil servant at the Income Tax Office.
- [Butterwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/butterwell.md): A colleague of Crosbie and Eames at the Income Tax Office.
- [Mortimer Gazebee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mortimer_gazebee.md): A lawyer and agent for the De Courcy family, married to Lady Amelia.
- [Christopher Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/christopher_dale.md): Christopher Dale rules the Great House at Allington with the quiet authority of a man who has never sold an acre and never intends to. He is torn between his affection for his nieces at the Small House and his hope that 
- [Miss Spruce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/miss_spruce.md): An elderly spinster living at Mrs. Roper's boardinghouse.
- [Lady Alexandrina Crosbie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lady_alexandrina_crosbie.md): Lady Alexandrina De Courcy moves through Courcy Castle with the languid assurance of her rank, breakfasting late in a muslin peignoir while her mother negotiates her engagement to Crosbie. She is sensible rather than pas
- [Mrs. Eames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mrs_eames.md): John Eames's mother, a widow living in Guestwick.
- [Fowler Pratt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/fowler_pratt.md): A friend of Crosbie, a man about town.
- [Lord De Guest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lord_de_guest.md): Lord De Guest is the brother of Lady Julia and a nobleman so unassuming that Lily Dale calls him 'only a mere earl.' He takes a paternal interest in John Eames after a chance encounter, offering patronage and advice that
- [Mr. Boyce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mr_boyce.md): A clergyman and his wife, neighbors of the Dales.
- [Lord Dumbello](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lord_dumbello.md): A wealthy nobleman, husband of Lady Dumbello.
- [Kit Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/kit_dale.md): The deceased father of the current squire, mentioned in family history.
- [Mr. Harding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mr_harding.md): An elderly clergyman, father of Mrs. Grantly, from the Barsetshire series.
- [Lady Margaretta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lady_margaretta.md): A daughter of the De Courcy family.
- [Honourable George De Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/honourable_george_de_courcy.md): A son of the Earl De Courcy, a dissipated young man.
- [Lady Rosina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lady_rosina.md): A daughter of the De Courcy family.
- [Mrs. Grantly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/mrs_grantly.md): The wife of Archdeacon Grantly, a minor character from the Barsetshire series.
- [John De Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/john_de_courcy.md): A younger son of the Earl De Courcy.
- [Lord De Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/lord_de_courcy.md): The Earl De Courcy, father of Alexandrina and others.
- [Countess De Courcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/characters/countess_de_courcy.md): The wife of Lord De Courcy, a domineering woman.

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