# The Rector — Vile Bodies character guide

> The Rector in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Rector

**First appearance:** 0012-x

## Who they are

The local clergyman who performs a wedding.

## Relationships

### [Colonel Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/colonel_blount)

_social_

Colonel Blount and the Rector share a strained acquaintance, with the Rector often exasperated by the Colonel's drunken antics and irreverence.

### [Colonel Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/colonel_blount)

_social_

Colonel Blount and the Rector share a strained acquaintance, with the Rector often exasperated by the Colonel's drunken antics and irreverence.

### [Colonel Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/colonel_blount)

_social_

Colonel Blount and the Rector share a strained acquaintance, with the Rector often exasperated by the Colonel's drunken antics and irreverence.

## In the story

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xiii)

The Rector arrives with the terrible news that war has been declared, interrupting the Colonel's conversation with Adam.

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