# The Transformation of Philip Jettan — Character guide

> Key figures in The Transformation of Philip Jettan by Georgette Heyer.

- [Philip Jettan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/philip_jettan.md): Philip grows up at Jettan's Pride, content with horses and harvests, until Cleone Charteris makes clear she wants a fashionable gentleman and not a country bumpkin. Stung by her rejection and by the elegant Mr. Bancroft'
- [Cleone Charteris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/cleone_charteris.md): Cleone has known Philip since childhood and loves him, but she wants a suitor who can turn heads in a ballroom, not one who smells of the stables. Her demand that he change sets the whole plot in motion, and her own cont
- [Sir Maurice Jettan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/maurice_jettan.md): Sir Maurice is the elder Jettan who sowed his wild oats and settled at the Pride, and he reads his son with uncomfortable accuracy. When Philip announces he will become a fop to win Cleone, Sir Maurice neither forbids no
- [Sir Thomas Jettan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/sir_thomas_jettan.md): Tom Jettan lives in town, dresses with exquisite care, and knows everyone worth knowing; he is the natural destination when Philip flees Sussex for a makeover. He takes on the project with relish, schooling Philip in dre
- [Sir Deryk Brenderby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/sir_deryk_brenderby.md): Brenderby is everything Philip has been taught to imitate: elegant, assured, and fluent in the language of drawing-rooms. He pursues Cleone openly, and his attentions force Philip to confront whether his borrowed polish 
- [Mr. Bancroft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/mr_bancroft.md): Bancroft is the glittering expatriate who embodies everything Philip is trying to become—and everything that is hollow in it. He mocks the raw country boy, wins Cleone's passing attention, and then humiliates Philip in a
- [François](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/francois.md): François serves as Philip's valet in Paris and follows him back to London, where his anxious scuttle and fractured English ('Eef m'sieu' would come up to ze chamber of my mastaire?') mark him as foreign, faithful, and fa
- [James Winton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/james_winton.md): A young man from the neighborhood, friend to Philip and Cleone.
- [Lady Malmerstoke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/lady_malmerstoke.md): Lady Malmerstoke — 'Sally' to her friends — moves through London drawing rooms with the ease of a woman who has outlived scandal and now dispenses advice on husbands and marriage. Tom has loved her for years, and she kee
- [Jennifer Winton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/jennifer_winton.md): James Winton's sister and a friend to Cleone.
- [Comte de Saint-Dantin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/comte_de_saint_dantin.md): A French nobleman and friend of Sir Maurice in Paris.
- [Moggat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/moggat.md): A servant in the Jettan household, often the butt of jokes.
- [De Bergeret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/de_bergeret.md): A French acquaintance of Philip and Sir Maurice in Paris.
- [Mademoiselle de Chaucheron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/mademoiselle_de_chaucheron.md): Mademoiselle de Chaucheron belongs to Philip's Paris season — one of the elegant women whose notice made him 'dangerously popular' and whose name gossip attached to his quarrel with Bancroft. The rumor that Philip fought
- [De Vangrisse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/de_vangrisse.md): A French acquaintance in Parisian society.
- [Mr. Charteris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/mr_charteris.md): Cleone's father, a gentleman of Little Fittledean.
- [Vicomte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_transformation_of_philip_jettan_se/characters/vicomte.md): A French nobleman in Parisian society.

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