# Timothy Tangs — The Woodlanders character guide

> Timothy Tangs in The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Tim, Tim Tangs, young Timothy Tangs, old Timothy Tangs

**First appearance:** 0001-ii

## Snapshot

Top-and-bottom sawyer in Melbury's pit, one of the Hintock workmen whose fireside gossip carries village judgment faster than any newspaper could.

## Who they are

He belongs to the chorus of Hintock labor — sawyers, turners, cider-men — who gather at Winterborne's hut and trade stories while their hands work and their heads wander. His world is small and his talk is large, and the rumors he helps circulate about Mrs. Charmond and the doctor shape how the village reads every scandal. He matters as one of the ordinary eyes through which Hardy measures the great house on the hill.

## Relationships

### [Grace Melbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/grace_melbury)

_social_

Timothy Tangs is a local man who interacts with Grace as a fellow villager, with no deep emotional connection.

### [Giles Winterborne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/giles_winterborne)

_social_

Giles and Timothy are fellow woodlanders who interact as acquaintances within the rural community.

### [Suke Damson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/suke_damson)

_romantic_

Suke Damson and Timothy Tangs have a flirtatious, possibly secret romantic involvement in the village.

### [Giles Winterborne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/giles_winterborne)

_social_

Giles and Timothy are fellow woodlanders who interact as acquaintances within the rural community.

### [Grace Melbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/grace_melbury)

_social_

Timothy Tangs is a local man who interacts with Grace as a fellow villager, with no deep emotional connection.

### [Grace Melbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/grace_melbury)

_social_

Timothy Tangs is a local man who interacts with Grace as a fellow villager, with no deep emotional connection.

### [Suke Damson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/suke_damson)

_romantic_

Suke Damson and Timothy Tangs have a flirtatious, possibly secret romantic involvement in the village.

### [Suke Damson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/suke_damson)

_romantic_

Suke Damson and Timothy Tangs have a flirtatious, possibly secret romantic involvement in the village.

### [Giles Winterborne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/characters/giles_winterborne)

_social_

Giles and Timothy are fellow woodlanders who interact as acquaintances within the rural community.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/iv)

One of the workmen; recalls Grace as a child.

### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/xxiv)

Tim Tangs is among the onlookers who watch the delivery of Grace's wedding gown.

### [Chapter XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/xxvii)

Seen by Mrs. Charmond climbing the lawn against orders; he falls and rolls down the slope, causing her to laugh uncontrollably.

### [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/xxix)

Tim is present with Suke Damson, sharing nuts with her in the woodland.

### [XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/xlv)

Marries Suke Damson and informs Fitzpiers of their plan to emigrate to New Zealand.

### [XLVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/xlvi)

Grows suspicious of Fitzpiers's visits, linking them to his wife Suke, and prepares to emigrate.

### [XLVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_woodlanders_se/chapters/xlvii)

Sets the mantrap intending to catch Fitzpiers, but Grace is nearly caught instead.

## Links

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