# Captain Cutler — The Wisdom of Father Brown character guide

> Captain Cutler in The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cutler

**First appearance:** 0010-the-god-of-the-gongs

## Snapshot

A bluff sea captain whose strange cargo and stranger behaviour draw Father Brown into the eerie affair of the god of the gongs.

## Who they are

Captain Cutler moves through the tale as a man of the sea whose practical manner conceals something the priest cannot immediately name. His presence unsettles the ordinary social surface of the story, and the gongs, the idol and the captain's odd comings and goings form the knot Father Brown must loosen. He matters because he is the human face of a mystery that looks supernatural but is not.

## Relationships

### [Sir Wilson Seymour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/characters/sir_wilson_seymour)

_rivalry_

Captain Cutler and Sir Wilson Seymour are antagonists in a tense confrontation over a crime or personal dispute.

### [Sir Wilson Seymour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/characters/sir_wilson_seymour)

_rivalry_

Captain Cutler and Sir Wilson Seymour are antagonists in a tense confrontation over a crime or personal dispute.

## In the story

### [The Man in the Passage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/chapters/the-man-in-the-passage)

Testifies that the figure looked like a beast with humped shoulders and bristles; his description contrasts with Seymour's.

### [The Salad of Colonel Cray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/chapters/the-salad-of-colonel-cray)

Mentioned as a friend of Major Putnam; not directly present in this excerpt.

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