# Waverley — Character guide

> Key figures in Waverley by Walter Scott.

- [Edward Waverley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/edward_waverley.md): Edward Waverley is heir to Waverley-Honour, educated in dreams of chivalry but untested by anything real, and his first journey into Scotland leaves him charmed by Highland hospitality and flattered by Jacobite attention
- [Fergus MacIvor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/fergus_macivor.md): Fergus MacIvor, Vich Ian Vohr of Glennaquoich, is a Jacobite chieftain whose brain is a perpetual workshop of intrigue, and he treats Waverley's arrival as both a genuine friendship and a useful acquisition. He is brave,
- [Flora MacIvor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/flora_macivor.md): Flora MacIvor is the ornament of her brother's house, admired for her beauty and her voice, and far more single-minded than either of her suitors. She loves the Stuart cause as a sacred duty rather than a career, and she
- [Rose Bradwardine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/rose_bradwardine.md): Rose Bradwardine is the daughter of a scholarly, eccentric laird, and she takes a marked, unguarded interest in everything that affects Waverley, an attention he is too distracted to read. Where Flora is flame, Rose is d
- [Baron of Bradwardine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/baron_of_bradwardine.md): Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Tully-Veolan is an old-fashioned laird, half scholar and half soldier, whose learning is diffuse and whose loyalty to the exiled Stuarts is absolute. He is absurd in his antiquarian fussiness 
- [Sir Everard Waverley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/sir_everard_waverley.md): Sir Everard Waverley is the bachelor baronet of Waverley-Honour, a man of honour and old-fashioned formality who dotes on his nephew and manages the family's Jacobite sympathies with cautious discretion. His friendship w
- [Richard Waverley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/richard_waverley.md): Richard Waverley is an ambitious Hanoverian placeman who trades his son's education for his own advancement, leaving Edward to be raised by his Jacobite uncle and to drift, unguided, into the Highlands. The family's spli
- [Colonel Talbot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/colonel_talbot.md): Taken at Prestonpans and quartered alongside Edward, Talbot is a blunt, well-connected Englishman who treats his captor's predicament with amused, paternal exasperation rather than contempt. He calls the Jacobite rising 
- [Evan Dhu Maccombich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/evan_dhu_maccombich.md): Evan Dhu moves between the outlaw's cave and the chief's hall with the same unshakeable steadiness, watching Donald Bean Lean's insinuations with a silence that speaks volumes. He is the human bridge between Fergus's rom
- [Donald Bean Lean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/donald_bean_lean.md): Donald Bean Lean receives Edward in a cavern furnished with heath pallets and stolen cattle, speaks with unnerving accuracy about garrisons and recruits, and hints darkly that he knows more of Waverley's business than Ed
- [Bailie Macwheeble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/bailie_macwheeble.md): Macwheeble bolts doors, rubs his hands, and dances a Highland fling when he hears Edward means to marry Rose and bring ten thousand a year into the family. Yet his cowardice is practical rather than contemptible: he hide
- [Davie Gellatley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/davie_gellatley.md): Davie frisks and sings through the Baron's troubles — 'Our gear's a' gane' — and takes a horsewhipping from the Bailie without losing his strange cheer. The household treats him as harmless, but his wandering presence an
- [Major Melville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/major_melville.md): Melville is the local magistrate who arrests Waverley on a warrant from the Supreme Criminal Court, then examines him with a compassion that never quite softens into mercy. He is a strict disciplinarian and distrustful m
- [Callum Beg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/callum_beg.md): Callum is the silent, ever-present attendant in Fergus's household, a boy whose composure in the face of his chief's rages marks him as something more than a servant. He moves through scenes of crisis without flinching, 
- [Mr. Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_morton.md): Morton is the minister invited to remain during Waverley's examination, and he becomes the prisoner's only advocate in the room. Where Major Melville sees a case for the law, Morton sees a young man whose guilt is not ye
- [Colonel Gardiner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/colonel_gardiner.md): Gardiner commands Waverley's regiment and writes him the final summons that never reaches him, so that his apparent neglect of orders becomes the pretext for his removal. He is a man of honor whose good opinion Waverley 
- [Gilfillan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/gilfillan.md): Gilfillan is a Hanoverian officer of the Covenanting strain, a man whose religious fervor and military ardor are indistinguishable. He appears in the Low Country campaigns as a figure of grim comedy and genuine menace, t
- [Prince Charles Edward Stuart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/prince_charles_edward.md): Charles Edward appears at the height of his early success, having driven Cope's forces north and entered Edinburgh, and he treats Waverley as a valuable political acquisition. He is eager to display confidence in his new
- [Lady Emily Blandeville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/lady_emily.md): Colonel Talbot's wife, who intercedes for Waverley with the government.
- [Aunt Rachel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/aunt_rachel.md): Edward's kind aunt at Waverley-Honour who dotes on him.
- [Mr. Pembroke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_pembroke.md): Edward's tutor, a learned but impractical clergyman.
- [Humphry Houghton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/humphry_houghton.md): Waverley's former servant who becomes a sergeant in the Hanoverian army.
- [Alick Polwarth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/alick_polwarth.md): Waverley's loyal English servant who accompanies him to Scotland.
- [Janet Gellatley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/janet_gellatley.md): Davie Gellatley's mother, a faithful servant at Tully-Veolan.
- [John Mucklewrath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/john_mucklewrath.md): Blacksmith and Jacobite soldier who threatens Waverley.
- [Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_ebenezer_cruickshanks.md): Innkeeper at Cairnvreckan who shelters Waverley.
- [Mr. Falconer of Balmawhapple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_falconer_of_balmawhapple.md): Hot-headed young Jacobite laird who quarrels with Waverley.
- [Mr. Saunders Saunderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_saunders_saunderson.md): The Baron of Bradwardine's meticulous butler.
- [Dugald Mahony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/dugald_mahony.md): Irish Jacobite officer serving under Fergus MacIvor.
- [MacMurrough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/macmurrough.md): Fergus MacIvor's bard who sings at the Highland feast.
- [Mr. Rubrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_rubrick.md): Episcopal clergyman at Tully-Veolan who supports the Jacobites.
- [Cathleen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/cathleen.md): Flora MacIvor's maid and confidante at Glennaquoich.
- [Lawyer Clippurse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/lawyer_clippurse.md): Lawyer employed by Sir Everard Waverley for legal matters.
- [Duncan Duroch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/duncan_duroch.md): Highlander who guides Waverley through the mountains.
- [Mr. Bullsegg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mr_bullsegg.md): Lowland laird who attends the Baron's banquet.
- [Old Ballenkeiroch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/old_ballenkeiroch.md): Aged Highland chieftain at the gathering.
- [Jinker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/jinker.md): Jacobite officer and horse-dealer.
- [Mrs. Mucklewrath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mrs_mucklewrath.md): Wife of John Mucklewrath, a camp follower.
- [Mrs. Flockhart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/waverley_se/characters/mrs_flockhart.md): Landlady of an inn in Edinburgh.

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