# Mr. Chamberlaine — The Vicar of Bullhampton character guide

> Mr. Chamberlaine in The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Rev. Henry Fitzackerly Chamberlaine, Harry

**First appearance:** 0025-xxiv-the-rev-henry-fitzackerley-chamberlaine

## Snapshot

A Salisbury prebendary and friend of Harry Gilmore, whose cautious doctrine that special cases are not worth taking up haunts the Vicar after Carry Brattle slips away.

## Who they are

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 pressing Harry Gilmore toward a more reasonable frame of mind about Mary Lowther, and a guest at the Bullhampton dinner where the chapel quarrel is dissected. His worldly prudence stands as the measured alternative to Fenwick's impulsive charity, and the novel keeps testing which of the two is right.

## In the story

### [What Mr. Gilmore Thought About It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/chapters/xxiii-what-mr-gilmore-thought-about-it)

His proposed visit is a matter for debate between Gilmore and the Fenwicks.

### [The Rev. Henry Fitzackerley Chamberlaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/chapters/xxiv-the-rev-henry-fitzackerley-chamberlaine)

The Rev. Henry Fitzackerley Chamberlaine, a prebendary of Salisbury, arrives at Hampton Privets; he is handsome, refined, and complacent, critical of Fenwick and unsympathetic to Gilmore's love.

### [XXVII: “I Never Shamed None of Them.”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/chapters/xxvii-i-never-shamed-none-of-them)

Argues that special efforts for fallen women are useless and advises subscribing to penitentiaries.

### [Mr. Quickenham, Q.C.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/chapters/xlii-mr-quickenham-q-c)

Debates the legality of the chapel with Mr. Quickenham; defends the Marquis's right to grant the land.

### [The Vicar's Vengeance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_bullhampton_se/chapters/lvi-the-vicar-s-vengeance)

The prebendary argues eloquently and forcefully for the chapel's removal, but fails to shake the Vicar's resolve.

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