# Sir Claude Champion — The Wisdom of Father Brown character guide

> Sir Claude Champion in The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sir Claude, Champion

**First appearance:** 0006-the-mistake-of-the-machine

## Snapshot

A dazzling baronet who races yachts, writes of the Himalayas, and plays Romeo to his friend's wife, turning scandal into a public performance.

## Who they are

Sir Claude Champion is the showy aristocrat whose omnivorous culture and restless publicity make him a Renaissance prince of the English papers. He and the poor scholar John Boulnois were inseparable at school, yet Champion's flagrant courtship of Boulnois's actress wife has turned their old intimacy into a dark and ugly question. His taste for ostentation over honour makes him the volatile centre of the scandal that draws Father Brown into the affair.

## Relationships

### [John Boulnois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/characters/john_boulnois)

_rivalry_

John Boulnois and Sir Claude Champion are bitter rivals, with Champion suspected of having an affair with Boulnois's wife.

## In the story

### [The Strange Crime of John Boulnois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/chapters/the-strange-crime-of-john-boulnois)

Wealthy baronet and friend of Boulnois, involved in an affair with Mrs. Boulnois.

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