# The Vicar of Bullhampton — Character guide

> Key figures in The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope.

- [Mary Lowther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mary_lowther.md): Mary Lowther arrives in Bullhampton as the woman Harry Gilmore loves and cannot win, and as the cousin Walter Marrable remembers as the loveliest little girl at Dunripple. When Walter's inheritance collapses, she faces A
- [Mr. Fenwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_fenwick.md): Frank Fenwick has spent years keeping the Methodist Mr. Puddleham in parochial amity — feeding him cabbages and peaches until the old poacher of souls has nothing left to bite. When the Marquis's new Bethel threatens to 
- [Harry Gilmore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/harry_gilmore.md): Gilmore is the Vicar's nearest neighbour and steadiest friend, a man whose opinions are worth having — except during the winter when Mary's absence made him morose and useless. The news that she is coming in early summer
- [Captain Walter Marrable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/captain_walter_marrable.md): Walter Marrable comes to his uncle Parson John's rectory fresh from a rupture with Colonel Marrable — a man of debts, arrests, and broken promises whom the whole family has spent its interest on. He remembers Mary from D
- [Sam Brattle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/sam_brattle.md): Sam Brattle is a young man the Vicar once had high hopes for, hopes that have grown fainter over eighteen months of trouble. When Fenwick catches him in the parsonage garden and smashes his shoulder, Sam refuses to name 
- [Carry Brattle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/carry_brattle.md): Carry Brattle has gone where her father will not name her, and the Vicar's attempt to bring her home through her mother ends in a silent, wretched drive back to Bullhampton when the girl slips away rather than face respe
- [Miss Marrable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/miss_marrable.md): Miss Marrable presides over the delicate business of disentangling Mary from Captain Marrable, then writes to Mrs. Fenwick in terms carefully pitched to reach Harry Gilmore without seeming to. She is shy of the subject, 
- [Fanny Brattle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/fanny_brattle.md): Fanny Brattle moves between the mill, the Vicarage, and the troubles of her disgraced sister Carry, acting as the family's practical conscience. She comes to Mr. Fenwick for help on Sam's behalf and later bears the weigh
- [Mr. Puddleham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_puddleham.md): For years Puddleham has been disarmed by Fenwick's peaches and cabbages, robbed of the righteous quarrel that gave his ministry its edge. When the Marquis offers to build him a Bethel facing the Vicarage gate, he seizes 
- [Janet Fenwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/janet_fenwick.md): Janet Fenwick feels the insult of Puddleham's chapel so keenly that she will not pass through her own gate, yet she is the one who carries Miss Marrable's letter to Harry Gilmore and counsels him to wait. She teases her 
- [Sir Gregory Marrable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/sir_gregory_marrable.md): Sir Gregory is the great man whose shadow reaches into Bullhampton, the landlord whose displeasure the builder Grimes fears and whose patronage Mr. Puddleham hopes to enjoy. His wealth and title make Walter's position pr
- [Mrs. Brattle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mrs_brattle.md): Mrs. Brattle accompanies Mr. Fenwick on the errand to reclaim Carry, only to watch the girl flee the moment she learns her family knows where she is. She comes home to a husband who tells her there is no use in scouring 
- [Mr. Jay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_jay.md): Mr. Jay moves through the novel's clerical orbit as a visiting clergyman whose path crosses Mary Lowther's, offering the kind of steady, unremarkable ministry that throws the ambitions of men like Mr. Puddleham into reli
- [Aunt Sarah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/aunt_sarah.md): Aunt Sarah is the elderly relative whose opinion carries weight in the Marrable family circle, and she has decided views about what a young woman ought to do with her life. She approves of Captain Marrable as a Marrable 
- [Edith Brownlow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/edith_brownlow.md): Edith Brownlow is the eligible bride Sir Gregory Marrable has in mind for his nephew, and her name alone is enough to wound Mary Lowther when it reaches her at Loring. She is described as pretty, gentle, good, and certai
- [Mr. Chamberlaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_chamberlaine.md): Mr. Chamberlaine is the senior clergyman whose sober view of pastoral rescue — that it is no good to take up special cases — the Vicar angrily concedes after Carry Brattle vanishes back into London. He is also the uncle 
- [Mr. Quickenham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_quickenham.md): Mr. Quickenham arrives at the Vicarage with his hands in his pockets and his head on one side, pacing the disputed plot and asking pointed questions about common land, building leases, and whether anything was ever prope
- [Lord St. George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/lord_st_george.md): Lord St. George is the heir whose father's feud with the Vicar over the Bethel chapel gives the parish its running grievance, and whose family name carries weight in every social calculation around Bullhampton. He moves 
- [Lord Trowbridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/lord_trowbridge.md): Lord Trowbridge is the local magnate whose wealth and title make him a force in the parish, but whose judgment is governed by pride rather than reason. When he becomes convinced the Vicar is a wicked man, he writes to th
- [George Brattle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/george_brattle.md): George Brattle is a respectable tradesman whose family has been shadowed by scandal: his daughter Carry has left home and his son Sam is entangled in trouble. He is a man of stern principle and deep feeling, caught betwe
- [Parson John Marrable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/parson_john_marrable.md): A clergyman and relative of the Marrable family.
- [Mrs. Stiggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mrs_stiggs.md): A poor woman in the parish who receives charity.
- [Mr. Cockey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_cockey.md): A local tradesman or constable involved in the plot.
- [Grimes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/grimes.md): A constable or police officer in the story.
- [Mrs. Brownlow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mrs_brownlow.md): Edith Brownlow's mother.
- [Colonel Marrable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/colonel_marrable.md): A military relative of the Marrable family.
- [Head Constable Toffy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/head_constable_toffy.md): A police constable involved in the investigation.
- [Mr. Packer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_packer.md): A local man, possibly a farmer or tradesman.
- [Mr. Boothby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/mr_boothby.md): An older gentleman in the community.
- [Farmer Trumbull](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/farmer_trumbull.md): An elderly farmer, possibly the same as Mr. Trumbull.
- [Agnes Pope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/agnes_pope.md): A servant or young woman in the story.
- [Jack the Grinder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/characters/jack_the_grinder.md): A criminal associate of Sam Brattle.

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