# The Wonderful Visit — Character guide

> Key figures in The Wonderful Visit by H. G. Wells.

- [The Angel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/the_angel.md): Stripped of halo and glory, dressed in the Vicar's cast-off coat and trousers, the Angel wanders the parish as a hunchbacked stranger whose innocence reads as lunacy to nearly everyone he meets. His music, played at Lady
- [Lady Hammergallow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/lady_hammergallow.md): Lady Hammergallow presides over Siddermorton's drawing-room world, where she discusses guineas and establishments while the Vicar sits beside her looking hot and rumpled. She is the one who makes things happen socially, 
- [Doctor Crump](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/doctor_crump.md): Crump finds the Angel trespassing by the Sidder and treats him as either a lunatic at large or a knave, offering to certify him insane to get him out of the village. His real worry is the Vicar, whom he believes is being
- [Mrs. Mendham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mrs_mendham.md): Mrs. Mendham hears the Angel story from her husband over bootlaces and firelight and immediately begins turning it into something usable, weighing whether the Vicar is mad, whether the Curate should write to the Bishop, 
- [Sir John Gotch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/sir_john_gotch.md): Sir John arrives at the Vicarage already briefed by Lady Hammergallow, convinced the Angel has been preaching Socialism to every yokel in the parish and cutting his wire as a demonstration. He is not a monster, just a ma
- [The Vicar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/the_vicar.md): The Vicar is the Angel's first host and interpreter, the man who names him, clothes him, and tries to explain pain, necessity, and leg of lamb to a guest who has never heard of any of them. His sermons have begun to slip
- [Mrs. Jehoram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mrs_jehoram.md): A village woman with a broad-minded view of the Angel.
- [Mr. Hilyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mr_hilyer.md): A local gentleman who interacts with the Angel.
- [Mrs. Hinijer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mrs_hinijer.md): A village woman who takes action against the Angel.
- [Horrocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/horrocks.md): A local man who appears in the village scenes.
- [Mr. Wilmerdings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mr_wilmerdings.md): An elderly villager who comments on the Angel.
- [Mr. Rathbone Slater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mr_rathbone_slater.md): A visitor to the village who encounters the Angel.
- [Gully](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/gully.md): A man from Sidderton who saw the strange glare.
- [The Curate from Iping Hanger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/the_curate_from_iping_hanger.md): A visiting curate who debates the Angel's nature.
- [Grummet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/grummet.md): A local man who appears in village scenes.
- [Mother Gustick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/mother_gustick.md): An elderly village woman, mother of Mrs. Gustick.
- [Lumpy Durgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/lumpy_durgan.md): A village boy who interacts with the Angel.
- [Annie Durgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/annie_durgan.md): A village girl, possibly related to Lumpy Durgan.
- [Borland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wonderful_visit_se/characters/borland.md): A local man mentioned in the village.

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