# The Story of the Treasure Seekers — Character guide

> Key figures in The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit.

- [Oswald Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/oswald_bastable.md): Oswald is the boy who first thinks of seeking treasure, declaring it the proper way to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable, and he never lets anyone forget whose idea it was. He won the Latin prize at hi
- [Dora Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/dora_bastable.md): Dora is the eldest of the six Bastables and the only one who ever tries to mend anything, forever patching Noël's torn stockings while the others plot treasure. She is cautious and responsible, the voice that says a plan
- [Dicky Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/dicky_bastable.md): Dicky sits third in the Bastable line, just after Oswald, and is distinguished chiefly by being good at sums — a useful counterweight to his brother's Latin-prize rhetoric. Where Oswald dreams of fallen houses and ancest
- [Noël Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/noel_bastable.md): Noël is one of the twins, ten years old, with a chest delicate enough that Alice once knitted him a scarf — which he refused to wear because it was wider at one end. He is the family's poet and dreamer, the one who gives
- [Alice Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/alice_bastable.md): Alice is ten, Noël's twin, and the Bastable who tries to make things — including a red scarf for her brother's delicate chest that turned out much wider at one end. The scarf became a pennon instead, a splash of scarlet 
- [H. O. Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/h_o_bastable.md): H. O. is the youngest of the six Bastables, nicknamed the Great Brain, and he has the scar on his chin to prove it — he cut it falling off the chicken-house during a game of shipwrecked mariners. He is eager, clumsy, and
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/father_bastable.md): Father presides over the semi-detached house in Lewisham Road, where vanished silver, yellowy-white new spoons, and no more dinner guests mark the family's decline. He loves his children but keeps his worries to himself,
- [Albert Morrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/albert_morrison.md): Albert-next-door is the neighbour the Bastables alternately torment and include, most memorably when he is buried in a garden hole and hauled out dusty, mouldy, and crying. His uncle, who claims to know everything about 
- [Eliza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/eliza.md): Eliza keeps the Lewisham Road house running while the Bastables scheme, dig, and disappear on treasure hunts, and her gossip about neighbours like the family off to Scarborough feeds the children's detective ambitions. S
- [Pincher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/pincher.md): The family dog, loyal and often accompanying the children.
- [Mr. Rosenbaum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/mr_rosenbaum.md): A pawnbroker who deals with the children's items.
- [The Robber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/the_robber.md): A burglar who breaks into the Bastable home.

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