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  "slug": "the-expedition-of-humphry-clinker-pg2160",
  "title": "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker",
  "author": "T. (Tobias) Smollett",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
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      "name": "Professor Michael S. Hart",
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    {
      "name": "Charles Dennison",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Dennison"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s old Oxford friend, who left the law to restore and farm his inherited estate. His wife and only surviving son, George, are central to his happiness; he arranges George’s marriage to Lydia and helps Mr Baynard recover his finances."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Dennison’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Dennison",
        "his consort",
        "his lady"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Dennison’s affectionate, capable wife. She warmly welcomes Lydia and supports her marriage to George."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Dennison’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "George Dennison",
        "young Mr Dennison",
        "George",
        "Wilson",
        "the young stroller",
        "the player man"
      ],
      "description": "Charles and Mrs Dennison’s only surviving son, who used the name Wilson while concealing himself to avoid a marriage arranged by his parents. He loves Lydia, and after his parents approve the match, they marry; he is also Jeremy’s close friend."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman who employed Dorothy Twyford at the Angel",
      "aliases": [
        "the person here named"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble, then known as Matthew Loyd of Glamorgan, who left his seal and written direction with Dorothy Twyford when she was pregnant with their son Humphry Clinker."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old friend who inherited the estate",
      "aliases": [
        "Charles Dennison"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Dennison, Matthew Bramble’s old Oxford friend, who left the law and restored his neglected estate through careful farming. His wife and son share his country home, where the Bramble party stays."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Dennison’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "his father"
      ],
      "description": "The deceased father of Charles Dennison, who disapproved of Charles’s marriage for love. His death brought Charles’s elder brother into possession of the family estate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Dennison’s elder brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the fox-hunter and sot",
        "his elder brother"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Dennison’s deceased elder brother, who inherited the estate but neglected and nearly ruined it. He died of a fever after a debauch."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Dennison’s deceased children",
      "aliases": [
        "two children"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed children of Charles and Mrs Dennison who died in infancy of smallpox. Their surviving brother George is their parents’ only living child."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman Charles Dennison’s son was expected to marry",
      "aliases": [
        "the gentleman’s daughter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman expected to inherit a considerable fortune, whom George Dennison’s parents proposed as his match. He rejected the arrangement, and she eventually chose another partner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The farmer who kept the key",
      "aliases": [
        "the farmer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed tenant farmer who held the key to Charles Dennison’s house and hoped to become bailiff of the estate. He threatened to leave his farm unless Dennison reduced the rent."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old cottager",
      "aliases": [
        "the cottager"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man hired with his wife to stay in Charles Dennison’s neglected house. They left in fright, claiming that noises meant Dennison’s dead brother haunted it."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old cottager’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "his wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who stayed with her husband in Dennison’s neglected house. She left with him after hearing frightening noises."
    },
    {
      "name": "The curate at Charles Dennison’s parish",
      "aliases": [
        "the curate"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who warned Charles Dennison that the tenant farmer intended to leave and provided company during the first winter at the estate. He was a scholar who helped Dennison learn about country life."
    },
    {
      "name": "The real Mr Wilson",
      "aliases": [
        "Jack Wilson",
        "Wilson"
      ],
      "description": "A kind, brave, and resourceful former naval lieutenant who settled in the neighborhood and became Charles Dennison’s close friend. He helped restore Dennison’s estate and remains a companion to both families; his surname gave George Dennison the assumed name Wilson."
    },
    {
      "name": "Farmer Bland",
      "aliases": [
        "farmer Bland"
      ],
      "description": "A prosperous farmer and father-in-law of Jack Wilson, knowledgeable about Charles Dennison’s land and farming. He advised Dennison, helped improve the estate, and later lends money to Mr Baynard."
    },
    {
      "name": "The daughter of Farmer Bland",
      "aliases": [
        "Wilson’s wife",
        "Mr Wilson’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "Farmer Bland’s unnamed daughter, who married Jack Wilson. She became a close friend of Mrs Dennison and helped form a lasting friendship between their families."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jack Wilson’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "Wilson’s son"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed son of Jack Wilson, raised alongside George Dennison at school and college. The two young men are close friends."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sensible physician near the market-town",
      "aliases": [
        "the physician"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed physician introduced to Charles Dennison through Jack Wilson. He lives in the neighboring market-town."
    },
    {
      "name": "The physician’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "the agreeable old maiden"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed unmarried woman, sister of the physician near Dennison’s estate, who spent Christmas with the family."
    },
    {
      "name": "The careful hind at Dennison’s estate",
      "aliases": [
        "the hind"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed farm servant hired on Farmer Bland’s recommendation to stay in Charles Dennison’s house and keep fires lit."
    },
    {
      "name": "The hind’s daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "the house-maid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman who served as housemaid in the Dennison household."
    },
    {
      "name": "The country lad hired by Dennison",
      "aliases": [
        "the footman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed local boy hired as a footman when Charles Dennison began housekeeping at his estate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cook-maid brought from London",
      "aliases": [
        "the cook-maid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant whom Mrs Dennison brought from London to work as the household cook."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person who advised Dennison on agriculture",
      "aliases": [
        "Lyle"
      ],
      "description": "An agricultural writer whose advice Charles Dennison consulted while experimenting with farming."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tull",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An agricultural writer whose works Charles Dennison consulted for guidance on farming."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hart",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An agricultural writer whose works Charles Dennison consulted for guidance on farming."
    },
    {
      "name": "Duhamel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An agricultural writer whose works Charles Dennison consulted for guidance on farming."
    },
    {
      "name": "The guests at the Dennison wedding",
      "aliases": [
        "the country people"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed local people admitted to the theatrical performances staged at Charles Dennison’s home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The tutor at Cambridge",
      "aliases": [
        "his tutor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed tutor from whom George Dennison slipped away when he fled Cambridge to avoid the proposed marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The friend George visited before the Bramble party arrived",
      "aliases": [
        "the nearby friend"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed friend whom George Dennison visited and stayed with overnight before returning to his parents’ house."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old acquaintance who brought the game",
      "aliases": [
        "Jack Wilson"
      ],
      "description": "The real Jack Wilson, Charles Dennison’s close friend, who arrives with game he has hunted and is welcomed by Matthew Bramble."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person who carried the letters to the next town",
      "aliases": [
        "the messenger"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed messenger who was about to carry Matthew Bramble’s letters to the next town."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "Baynard"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s old friend, whose extravagant wife Harriet dies during a pleuritic fever. Bramble takes charge of his household and finances, arranges his son’s schooling, and helps him begin rebuilding his estate; Baynard later joins the Dennison household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "Harriet",
        "Mr Baynard’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "Mr Baynard’s wife, who dies of a pleuritic fever. Her death frees Baynard from the extravagant household that had helped bring him near ruin."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Baynard’s maiden aunt",
      "aliases": [
        "the aunt"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who accompanies Mrs Baynard and grieves at her death. She leaves after the funeral and ensures that her niece’s wardrobe goes to her maid."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Baynard’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "the young gentleman",
        "the boy"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed boy, largely unmoved by his mother’s death, whom Matthew Bramble arranges to send to a nearby boarding school. His father’s household had previously employed a tutor for him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The clergyman tutoring Harry Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "the tutor",
        "the clergyman engaged as his tutor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who had tutored Mr Baynard’s son at home. Bramble dismisses him when the boy is sent to boarding school."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who received Mrs Baynard’s wardrobe",
      "aliases": [
        "the woman of the deceased",
        "her woman"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs Baynard’s unnamed maid, who receives her mistress’s clothes, lace, and linen after the funeral."
    },
    {
      "name": "The waiting-women at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "the waiting-women"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed female servants whom Mrs Baynard’s aunt consults during the mourning period."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who conducted the aunt to her chamber",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the women"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman at the Baynards’ house who leads Mrs Baynard’s aunt away while Matthew Bramble comforts Mr Baynard."
    },
    {
      "name": "The valet de chambre at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "the valet de chambre"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who helps Matthew Bramble separate Mr Baynard from his wife’s body during his grief."
    },
    {
      "name": "The female cook at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "the female cook"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed cook retained by Matthew Bramble after he dismisses many of the Baynards’ servants. She had assisted the French cook."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French cook at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "the French cook"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed cook dismissed by Matthew Bramble as part of his effort to reduce Mr Baynard’s household expenses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The housemaid at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "a house maid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant retained by Matthew Bramble after he reduces the Baynards’ staff."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old lackey at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "an old lacquey"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly servant retained by Matthew Bramble after he reduces the Baynards’ staff."
    },
    {
      "name": "The chambermaid at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "a chambermaid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant dismissed by Matthew Bramble as part of his effort to reduce the Baynards’ household expenses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The butler at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "a butler"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant dismissed by Matthew Bramble as part of his effort to reduce the Baynards’ household expenses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The master gardener at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "a master gardener"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant dismissed by Matthew Bramble as part of his effort to reduce the Baynards’ household expenses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The footmen at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "two footmen"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed servants dismissed by Matthew Bramble as part of his effort to reduce the Baynards’ household expenses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The coachman at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "a coachman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant dismissed by Matthew Bramble as part of Matthew Bramble’s effort to reduce the Baynards’ household expenses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postilion at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "a postilion"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant retained by Matthew Bramble after he reduces the Baynards’ staff."
    },
    {
      "name": "The under-gardener at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "under-gardener"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant retained by Matthew Bramble after he reduces the Baynards’ staff."
    },
    {
      "name": "The upholder from London",
      "aliases": [
        "the upholder"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed furniture dealer who helps classify and prepare items from the Baynards’ houses for sale."
    },
    {
      "name": "The attorney managing the Baynard sale",
      "aliases": [
        "the reputable attorney"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed attorney left to manage the auction and household affairs at the Baynards’ house."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gardener at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "the gardener"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed worker ordered to restore the rivulet and make other changes to the grounds."
    },
    {
      "name": "The doctor who attended Mrs Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "the physician"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed physician who tells Matthew Bramble that Mrs Baynard has just died of a pleuritic fever."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who had been proposed as a match for George Dennison",
      "aliases": [
        "the young lady"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman in the next county, likely heiress to a considerable fortune, whom George Dennison’s parents wished him to marry. She later chose another partner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The other partner chosen by George Dennison’s intended match",
      "aliases": [
        "the young lady’s partner"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man chosen by the woman once proposed as George Dennison’s match."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Willis’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Willis"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who accompanies her daughter Laetitia to the Dennison home at Lydia’s invitation. She intends to return with her daughter to Gloucester."
    },
    {
      "name": "Laetitia Willis",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Laetitia Willis",
        "Letty",
        "Miss Willis"
      ],
      "description": "Lydia Melford’s close friend and former school companion. She visits for Lydia’s wedding and supports her through the emotional reunion with George Dennison."
    },
    {
      "name": "The governess at Lydia’s former school",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Jermyn",
        "Mrs Jermyn, at her house in Gloucester"
      ],
      "description": "Lydia’s former governess, whom Lydia asks to help secure permission for Laetitia Willis to visit. Lydia writes to her with news of her engagement."
    },
    {
      "name": "Betty Barker",
      "aliases": [
        "Lydia’s maid"
      ],
      "description": "Laetitia Willis’s unnamed maid, who is to accompany her on the journey to visit Lydia."
    },
    {
      "name": "The groom who accompanied George Dennison",
      "aliases": [
        "his groom"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who accompanies George Dennison while he searches for Lydia and her family."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two couples’ parish clerk",
      "aliases": [
        "the clerk"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed parish clerk who announces the banns for George Dennison and Lydia Melford, and for Obadiah Lismahago and Tabitha Bramble."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old woman who prepared for the wedding",
      "aliases": [
        "the old lady"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs Dennison, who welcomes the young couple and helps Lydia through the reunion and wedding."
    },
    {
      "name": "The visitors who attended the wedding",
      "aliases": [
        "the bystanders",
        "the company"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed guests at the weddings of George and Lydia, Tabitha and Lismahago, and Humphry and Winifred."
    },
    {
      "name": "The real cat at the wedding",
      "aliases": [
        "the troublesome visitant",
        "the poor animal"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed cat that Jack Wilson sends scampering through the room with walnut shells on its paws, startling Humphry Clinker and Winifred Jenkins on their wedding night."
    },
    {
      "name": "The country people who attended the plays",
      "aliases": [
        "the commonalty",
        "the spectators"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed local spectators who watch the plays at Dennison’s hall; Lismahago’s performance as Pierrot frightens some into fleeing."
    },
    {
      "name": "The farm servant who attended Mr Baynard’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the hind’s daughter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant in the Baynard household who had worked as a housemaid and is among the staff Bramble evaluates."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who visited with Miss Willis",
      "aliases": [
        "her mother"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs Willis, Laetitia’s mother, who accompanies her daughter to the wedding visit and later plans to return to Gloucester."
    },
    {
      "name": "The parish residents who attended the weddings",
      "aliases": [
        "the parish"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed members of the parish who attend the weddings and comment on the couples’ appearance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who accompanied the Countess of Melville",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Dennison"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Dennison’s wife, who is warmly welcomed by the Bramble family and supports the match between her son and Lydia."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young woman who came with Mrs Willis",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Willis"
      ],
      "description": "Laetitia Willis, Lydia’s friend, whose visit comforts Lydia and whose mother accompanies her."
    },
    {
      "name": "The friend who visited George before his return",
      "aliases": [
        "a friend"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed acquaintance whom George Dennison visits shortly before returning to his parents’ home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The farmer who lent Dennison a cow",
      "aliases": [
        "Farmer Bland"
      ],
      "description": "Farmer Bland, who lends Charles Dennison a milch cow and advises him about the estate and farming."
    },
    {
      "name": "The farmer who undertook to lend Baynard money",
      "aliases": [
        "Farmer Bland"
      ],
      "description": "Farmer Bland, the prosperous farmer and father-in-law of Jack Wilson, who agrees to lend Mr Baynard money at Wilson’s request."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sensible physician’s old sister",
      "aliases": [
        "his sister"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed unmarried woman, sister of the physician introduced by Jack Wilson, who spends Christmas at the Dennison home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man who brought game to Dennison’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "Jack Wilson"
      ],
      "description": "The real Jack Wilson, who arrives with game and has a long friendship with Charles Dennison. He helps the family and later undertakes to lend Mr Baynard money."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person who suggested the collector’s place",
      "aliases": [
        "Dr Lewis"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s physician and correspondent, who suggests seeking the reversion of a collector’s post for Lieutenant Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old friend who accompanied Baynard to the Dennison home",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Baynard"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s friend, recently widowed and deeply in debt, whom Bramble helps reorganize his household and finances."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who was considered as a possible match for Mr Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "Tabitha Bramble",
        "Tabby"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s sister, whom he suspects of shifting her romantic attention from Lismahago to the widowed Mr Baynard. She lends Baynard money and later marries Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "The agricultural pupil who assisted Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Dennison"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Dennison, who teaches Mr Baynard the practice of husbandry after helping him restore his estate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person who lent Baynard money through Wilson",
      "aliases": [
        "Farmer Bland"
      ],
      "description": "Farmer Bland, who agrees to lend Mr Baynard money at the request of his son-in-law Jack Wilson."
    },
    {
      "name": "The friend who promised to help Baynard improve his estate",
      "aliases": [
        "Charles Dennison"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Dennison, who promises to spend time with Mr Baynard and guide his improvements in farming."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mother who brought Laetitia Willis",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Willis"
      ],
      "description": "Laetitia Willis’s mother, who accompanies her daughter to the wedding celebrations and plans to return with her to Gloucester."
    },
    {
      "name": "The village audience member frightened by Lismahago",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the audience"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed spectator at the play in Dennison’s hall who shrieks or flees during Lismahago’s comic portrayal of Pierrot."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person who helped Lydia meet Laetitia",
      "aliases": [
        "Jeremy Melford"
      ],
      "description": "Lydia’s brother Jeremy, who accompanies her and George Dennison to meet Laetitia Willis and helps arrange the visit."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young woman whose happiness Bramble considered",
      "aliases": [
        "Winifred Jenkins",
        "Mrs Winifred Jenkins"
      ],
      "description": "Tabitha’s former maid, who marries Humphry Clinker after Matthew Bramble gives his consent."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who sent the letter to Mrs Gwyllim",
      "aliases": [
        "Tabitha Bramble",
        "Tabitha Lismahago"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s sister, newly married to Lieutenant Lismahago, who writes to Mrs Gwyllim with household instructions for their return to Brambleton Hall."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who wrote to Mary Jones about the wedding",
      "aliases": [
        "Winifred Jenkins",
        "Win. Jenkins",
        "Mrs Loyd, late Jenkins"
      ],
      "description": "Humphry Clinker’s new wife, who writes to Mary Jones about the weddings and her changed circumstances."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man who wrote to Mary Jones about the wedding",
      "aliases": [
        "Matthew Loyd",
        "Mr Loyd",
        "Humphry Clinker"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s natural son, newly married to Winifred Jenkins. He leaves the Bramble household livery and takes the name Loyd."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person mentioned as a possible vestry-clerk",
      "aliases": [
        "Matthew Loyd"
      ],
      "description": "Humphry Clinker, Matthew Bramble’s natural son, whom Bramble considers qualified for a vestry-clerk’s position and useful in supervising the farm."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man who accompanied Baynard on a second visit",
      "aliases": [
        "Matthew Bramble"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble, who helps Mr Baynard settle his affairs and intends to support his recovery at Brambleton Hall."
    },
    {
      "name": "The person who will supervise Bramble’s farm",
      "aliases": [
        "Matthew Loyd",
        "Humphry Clinker"
      ],
      "description": "Bramble’s newly acknowledged son, who is expected to help supervise the farm because of his honesty and diligence."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Yorkshire squire’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "the young ‘squire",
        "the young gentleman",
        "signor Macaroni",
        "Dick",
        "Harry"
      ],
      "description": "Squire Burdock’s only son, about twenty-two and recently returned from Italy. A musical dilettante who openly despises his father, he urges trepanning when Burdock appears speechless and later behaves rudely and sexually assaults Lydia Melford at the Baynards’ home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Baynard’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "his father"
      ],
      "description": "Mr Baynard’s deceased father, from whom Baynard inherited his estate. Bramble invokes the family home and its legacy when urging Baynard to restrain his wife’s spending."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman who hosted Matthew Bramble",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed acquaintance of Matthew Bramble who hosts the visit at which Bramble meets a dogmatic author and that author’s rival. He is identified in this passage as Baynard, Bramble’s old friend."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Bedford",
      "aliases": [
        "the dutchess of B[edford]"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed duchess who held a fashionable conversazione in Rome, which Mrs Baynard attended. Her departure inspired Mrs Baynard to attempt hosting a similar gathering, which Roman women ignored."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Milksan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed neighbour of Mr Baynard whose timorous nature leaves him submissive to his wife’s domineering behavior and extravagance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Sowerby",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed neighbour of Mr Baynard who is neither easily moved nor intimidated; his wife uses irony and sarcastic comparisons to push him into extravagance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wife of Sir Charles Chickwell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman whose ostentatious lifestyle is a model for Mrs Baynard and the wives of Mr Milksan and Mr Sowerby. Her fortune is four times theirs, yet she tries to match a neighbouring peeress’s grandeur."
    },
    {
      "name": "The neighbouring peeress",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed noblewoman whose income is three times that of Sir Charles Chickwell’s wife. The other women compete with her display."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Charles Chickwell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed baronet whose wife’s fortune and ostentation set a standard that neighbouring households try to match."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French language-master at the Baynards’ home",
      "aliases": [
        "the language-master"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed instructor who is among the expensive attendants surrounding Mrs Baynard during her travels in Italy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The musician at the Baynards’ home",
      "aliases": [
        "the musician"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed musician hired as part of Mrs Baynard’s expensive circle in Italy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The painter at the Baynards’ home",
      "aliases": [
        "the painter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed painter among the expensive loungers surrounding Mrs Baynard in Italy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cicerone at the Baynards’ home",
      "aliases": [
        "the ciceroni"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed guide among the costly attendants surrounding Mrs Baynard during her travels in Italy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Roman women invited to Mrs Baynard’s assembly",
      "aliases": [
        "the female sex"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed women of distinction in Rome whom Mrs Baynard invites to her musical gathering; none attends."
    },
    {
      "name": "The custom-house cutter’s crew",
      "aliases": [
        "the custom-house cutter"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed customs officers who seize the vessel carrying Mrs Baynard’s smuggled silks, stuffs, and laces from Calais."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two neighbours of Mr Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "his two neighbours"
      ],
      "description": "Mr Milksan and Mr Sowerby, unnamed in Bramble’s initial report as two neighbours whose wives drive them toward bankruptcy; Bramble later identifies them by name."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Thomas Bullford",
      "aliases": [
        "the knight",
        "the baronet",
        "our landlord",
        "the landlord"
      ],
      "description": "A gout-ridden country gentleman whom Matthew Bramble knew in Italy, and an old friend of Bramble’s uncle. He entertains guests by playing practical jokes, including frightening Lieutenant Lismahago with a false fire alarm and Justice Frogmore with a staged illness; Lismahago later retaliates by making him leap into a pond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Bullford",
      "aliases": [
        "his lady"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Thomas Bullford’s good-natured, sensible wife, who lives with him on easy terms. She plays and sings well, hosts the Bramble party, and worries when her husband’s jokes frighten his guests or threaten his health."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Frogmore",
      "aliases": [
        "Justice Frogmore",
        "the justice",
        "the fat-headed justice of the peace"
      ],
      "description": "A corpulent, shallow justice of the peace staying at Sir Thomas Bullford’s house. Bullford and the surgeon frighten him with a false poisoning scare and staged symptoms, and he is made to believe he is dying."
    },
    {
      "name": "The country surgeon at Sir Thomas Bullford’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the doctor",
        "the surgeon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed local surgeon and Sir Thomas Bullford’s close companion, who helps devise practical jokes. He stages Justice Frogmore’s apparent illness, then treats him with an emetic and other remedies."
    },
    {
      "name": "The parson at Sir Thomas Bullford’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the vicar"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman summoned to pray with Justice Frogmore during the staged illness. He begins taking account of Frogmore’s soul, then offers spiritual comfort while Frogmore is being sick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Thomas Bullford’s former nurse",
      "aliases": [
        "the old woman of the family"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly woman in Sir Thomas Bullford’s household who once nursed him. She administers an enema to Justice Frogmore during the practical joke."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servants at Sir Thomas Bullford’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the servants",
        "the people"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed household servants who help stage the false fire alarm, hold the ladder for Lieutenant Lismahago, and assist Sir Thomas after his leap into the pond."
    },
    {
      "name": "The maid who brought the blanket",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the maids"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed maid at Sir Thomas Bullford’s house who gives a blanket to Tabitha Bramble, who wraps it around Lismahago after his escape from the fire."
    },
    {
      "name": "The maid who rubbed Sir Thomas Bullford’s legs",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the maids"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed maid in Sir Thomas Bullford’s household who rubs his lower extremities after he leaps into the pond, helping him recover his senses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man-servant who helped rescue Tabitha",
      "aliases": [
        "my man",
        "the stanch auxiliary"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Bramble servant who helps Lieutenant Lismahago free Tabitha from the overturned coach and supports their rescue from the river."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman mistaken for Wilson",
      "aliases": [
        "the officer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed former military officer who answers Jeremy Melford’s unaddressed challenge after it is mistakenly delivered to him as Mr Wilson. He calmly explains the mix-up, apologizes for the misunderstanding, and invites Jeremy to his farm to hunt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman’s servant sent to the Red Lion",
      "aliases": [
        "my servant"
      ],
      "description": "Jeremy Melford’s unnamed servant, sent to learn who is staying at the Red Lion and then to deliver Jeremy’s challenge to Mr Wilson."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young ‘squire who called Lismahago Dunquickset",
      "aliases": [
        "Dunquickset"
      ],
      "description": "Harry Baynard, who mocks Lieutenant Lismahago’s appearance as he descends the ladder during the false fire alarm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dorothy Twyford",
      "aliases": [
        "Clinker’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Humphry Clinker’s deceased mother, formerly a bar-keeper at the Angel in Chippenham. Before her death she gave him Matthew Bramble’s old snuff-box, seal, and papers that reveal his parentage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The innkeeper who helped Matthew Bramble after the river accident",
      "aliases": [
        "the landlord"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed innkeeper whose house shelters the Bramble party after their carriage overturns. He assists Bramble and praises his own master, Charles Dennison, for his kindness and generosity."
    },
    {
      "name": "The miller who rescued Winifred Jenkins",
      "aliases": [
        "a miller"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed miller who comes to Winifred Jenkins’s aid after Humphry Clinker releases her while trying to rescue Matthew Bramble from the overturned coach."
    },
    {
      "name": "The blacksmith who repaired the damaged coach",
      "aliases": [
        "a blacksmith"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed tradesman summoned from the nearest market town to repair the Bramble family’s damaged carriage after it overturns in the river."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wheelwright who repaired the damaged coach",
      "aliases": [
        "a wheelwright"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed tradesman summoned from the nearest market town to repair the Bramble family’s damaged carriage after it overturns in the river."
    },
    {
      "name": "The curate who baptized Humphry Clinker",
      "aliases": [
        "the curate of the parish"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who signed the certificate of Humphry Clinker’s baptism, one of the documents establishing Clinker’s parentage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The carrier to Gloucester",
      "aliases": [
        "the carrier"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed carrier who transports Winifred Jenkins’s letter toward Gloucester."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who was offered as a match for Justice Lismahago",
      "aliases": [
        "the person expected to marry him"
      ],
      "description": "Tabitha Bramble, whom Winifred Jenkins fears will marry Lieutenant Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cradoc-ap-Morgan",
      "aliases": [
        "the ould tinker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed old Welsh tinker whom Winifred Jenkins compares to Lieutenant Lismahago’s appearance as he comes down the ladder during the fire alarm. She says he suffered at Abergavenny for stealing a kettle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postilions who drove the Bramble coach",
      "aliases": [
        "the two servants"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed servants traveling with the Bramble party who ride ahead while the coach is overturned and help in the river rescue."
    },
    {
      "name": "The guest who accompanied the Baynards in Italy",
      "aliases": [
        "the fashionable scorocconi"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed group of fashionable Italian companions whose attention Mrs Baynard sought by maintaining lavish hospitality."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servants at the Baynards’ house",
      "aliases": [
        "the powdered lacquies",
        "the powdered lacquey"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed servants at Mr and Mrs Baynard’s home, including powdered footmen who attend guests and valets dressed like gentlemen who serve the master and mistress."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French tailor or dressmaker serving Mrs Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "the hands who made the costumes"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed artisans hired to make Mrs Baynard’s numerous rich clothes during her expensive stay in Italy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman who accompanied Mrs Baynard to Rome",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Baynard"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs Baynard, who attends the Duchess of Bedford’s conversazione in Rome and is admitted to fashionable assemblies before hosting a gathering that Roman women ignore."
    },
    {
      "name": "The women who accompany Matthew Bramble to visit Baynard",
      "aliases": [
        "the two women"
      ],
      "description": "Tabitha Bramble and Lydia Melford, who accompany Matthew and Jeremy to visit Mr Baynard and are left waiting while Mrs Baynard dresses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The country inn servants after the river accident",
      "aliases": [
        "his people"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed staff at the inn who come with the landlord to assist the Bramble party after its coach overturns."
    },
    {
      "name": "Macdonald, lord or king of the isles",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A former ruler of the isles who resided in a castle on a lake in Ila."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mackcrain",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man said to have been born on Jura, lived one hundred and eighty years in one house, and died during Charles II’s reign."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Smollett",
      "aliases": [
        "commissary Smollet",
        "Dr Smollett"
      ],
      "description": "A judge of the commissary court and proprietor of Cameron, his country house on Loch Lomond, where he hosts the Bramble family. His ancestors are said to have blown up the Spanish ship Florida, and he and his wife join the family during their tour."
    },
    {
      "name": "John duke of Argyle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Scottish nobleman who consulted Spanish registers about the wreck of the Florida and sent divers to search it."
    },
    {
      "name": "St Columba",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A religious figure who chose Icolmkill, or Iona, as his home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Smollett’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "his lady"
      ],
      "description": "Mr Smollett’s unnamed wife, who joins the Bramble family during their Scottish tour and looks after the women at Drumlanrig."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saunders Macawly",
      "aliases": [
        "Sunders Macully",
        "the travelling Scotchman",
        "the Scotchman"
      ],
      "description": "A travelling Scot who goes to Wales each year and carries letters for the Bramble family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Renton",
      "aliases": [
        "miss R[ento]n",
        "miss R—t—n"
      ],
      "description": "An amiable young woman Lydia befriends in Edinburgh. Her charms briefly seem to soften Jeremy Melford’s reserve."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Gordon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A young gentleman whose appearance and costume as Aimwell remind Lydia of Wilson, causing her to faint at a ball in Edinburgh."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old admiral",
      "aliases": [
        "the ould edmiral"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly man known to the Bramble women near Loch Lomond. Winifred Jenkins refers to him while explaining Humphry Clinker’s frightened reaction to an operation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The house-maid at Loch Lomond",
      "aliases": [
        "the house-maid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed maid who accompanies Winifred Jenkins when she bathes in Loch Lomond."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old witch",
      "aliases": [
        "Elspath Ringavey"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman Winifred Jenkins calls a witch; she tells Win’s fortune and advises her to bathe in Loch Lomond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir George Colquhoun",
      "aliases": [
        "the colonel in the Dutch service"
      ],
      "description": "A colonel in the Dutch service who guides Matthew Bramble and Jeremy on their Highland excursion. Tabitha unsuccessfully courts him, and Winifred Jenkins tells a confused story of encountering him while bathing."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Laird of Ladrishmore",
      "aliases": [
        "the laird"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Highland laird whom Tabitha tries to attract while the family is in Scotland. He meets her in the woods accompanied by the parish parson, so their encounter remains a religious conversation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old man paving the street",
      "aliases": [
        "the ancient paviour",
        "the senior"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly street paver whose son William, a captain in the East India Company, unexpectedly returns and reunites with him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The three sons of the old paviour",
      "aliases": [
        "the sons"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed sons of the elderly street paver: the eldest serves as a captain in the East Indies, the second is imprisoned for his father’s debts, and the youngest has enlisted as a soldier."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Brown",
      "aliases": [
        "William",
        "Willy",
        "the honest soldier"
      ],
      "description": "A former weaver who became a captain and paymaster in the East India Company under Lord Clive. He returns to his impoverished parents, pays his imprisoned brother’s debt, provides for his family and hometown, and plans to marry his former sweetheart."
    },
    {
      "name": "The imprisoned brother of Captain Brown",
      "aliases": [
        "the second son"
      ],
      "description": "Captain Brown’s brother, imprisoned after assuming responsibility for their father’s debts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Brown’s parents",
      "aliases": [
        "his parents"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed parents of Captain Brown, whom he finds in poverty; he settles a regular income on them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Brown’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "the decent old woman"
      ],
      "description": "The mother of Captain Brown, who rushes from her home to embrace him when he returns."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Brown’s youngest brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the youngest"
      ],
      "description": "Captain Brown’s brother, who has enlisted as a soldier and whom Brown promises to help obtain a commission."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Brown’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "his sister"
      ],
      "description": "Captain Brown’s married sister, whose husband is a farmer of limited means. Brown promises her a dowry."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Brown’s former sweetheart",
      "aliases": [
        "the person of low estate",
        "the journeyman weaver’s sweetheart"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman of humble station who was Captain Brown’s sweetheart when he worked as a journeyman weaver; he intends to marry her."
    },
    {
      "name": "The landlord who lost the old paviour’s money",
      "aliases": [
        "the gentleman that was my landlord"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed gentleman for whom the old paviour acted as guarantor; the paviour lost his money when the man went bankrupt."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Clive",
      "aliases": [
        "Clive"
      ],
      "description": "A British commander who noticed Captain Brown during his East India Company service and advanced him through the ranks."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Queensberry",
      "aliases": [
        "the duke"
      ],
      "description": "The owner of Drumlanrig Castle, who invites the Bramble party to stay and receives them with great courtesy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duchess of Queensberry",
      "aliases": [
        "the dutchess"
      ],
      "description": "The wife of the Duke of Queensberry, who graciously welcomes the Bramble women at Drumlanrig."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman who foresaw his visitors",
      "aliases": [
        "the visionary gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed landowner with a melancholy disposition who claims to have foreseen his old friend’s visit by second sight and prepared dinner for the party."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman’s steward",
      "aliases": [
        "the steward"
      ],
      "description": "The steward of the landowner who claims to have foreseen visitors; he says his master predicted their arrival and ordered dinner prepared."
    },
    {
      "name": "The five gentlemen visiting the sequestered friend",
      "aliases": [
        "the five gentlemen"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed companions on a hunting party who visit one man’s secluded friend; one is the narrator of the second-sight account."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman whose dead grandfather appeared",
      "aliases": [
        "the grandson of the defunct"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who says his dead grandfather appeared and whipped him near his own gate. His story is offered as evidence of a supernatural visitation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dead grandfather",
      "aliases": [
        "the apparition",
        "the old man’s spirit"
      ],
      "description": "The deceased grandfather of an unnamed gentleman, who is said to have appeared at twilight and whipped his grandson."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sexton",
      "aliases": [
        "the parish sexton"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed sexton who claims to have seen the apparition of the dead grandfather near his tomb."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wife of the gentleman whose grandfather appeared",
      "aliases": [
        "the good-woman"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed wife of the man who says his dead grandfather appeared and whipped him; fear of the omen leaves her bedridden."
    },
    {
      "name": "The justice of the peace who heard the apparition account",
      "aliases": [
        "the justice of the peace"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed justice of the peace whom the gentleman asks to administer an oath about the alleged apparition; he declines."
    },
    {
      "name": "The nephew of Lieutenant Lismahago",
      "aliases": [
        "Lismahago’s nephew"
      ],
      "description": "Lieutenant Lismahago’s unnamed nephew, who marries the daughter of a weaver and enters the family weaving business. Lismahago mistakes him for his own father and whips him at the family home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The nephew’s father-in-law",
      "aliases": [
        "the burgeois"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed burgher who directs a weaving manufacture and becomes a partner in the business with Lieutenant Lismahago’s nephew."
    },
    {
      "name": "The son who received the apparition’s whipping",
      "aliases": [
        "Lismahago’s father"
      ],
      "description": "Lieutenant Lismahago’s father, who was whipped by Lismahago when the latter mistook his nephew for him; this incident is recounted as a supposed ghostly visitation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Douglas’s nephew",
      "aliases": [
        "the nephew"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed heir to the late Duke of Douglas’s fortune, who is expected to complete the unfinished plan for a large house at Douglas."
    },
    {
      "name": "The late Duke of Douglas",
      "aliases": [
        "the late duke"
      ],
      "description": "A deceased Scottish nobleman who planned to build the largest house in Scotland after his castle burned; only one wing was completed before his death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Oxmington",
      "aliases": [
        "his lordship",
        "the petulant peer",
        "our landlord"
      ],
      "description": "A proud and capricious nobleman who dismisses guests abruptly at dinner and has Lieutenant Lismahago disarmed and humiliated after the latter brings him a challenge from Matthew Bramble."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman who hosted Lord Oxmington’s dinner",
      "aliases": [
        "our friend"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed acquaintance who hosts the first meeting between Matthew Bramble and Lord Oxmington, then carries the lord’s apology to the Bramble party."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French valet de chambre of Lord Oxmington",
      "aliases": [
        "the French valet de chambre",
        "the valet de chambre",
        "the insolent rascal"
      ],
      "description": "Lord Oxmington’s French valet, who leads the footmen in disarming and humiliating Lieutenant Lismahago. He later apologizes on his knees and is kicked by Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "The footmen at Lord Oxmington’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the footmen"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed servants who surround and disarm Lieutenant Lismahago after he delivers Matthew Bramble’s challenge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Oxmington’s servants",
      "aliases": [
        "the servants"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed household servants at Lord Oxmington’s home who receive the Bramble party’s challenge and later apology."
    },
    {
      "name": "The house-steward of Sir John Chickwell",
      "aliases": [
        "the house-steward"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant whose presence in Sir John Chickwell’s household is compared with the number of servants in the Baynard home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir John Chickwell",
      "aliases": [
        "sir John"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed country gentleman whose household has more servants than Mr Baynard’s, a comparison that prompts Mrs Baynard to demand greater display."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Baynard’s uncle",
      "aliases": [
        "the uncle"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who died in the East Indies and left Miss Thomson her fortune."
    },
    {
      "name": "The citizens’ failed-in-trade relative",
      "aliases": [
        "the citizen"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs Baynard’s unnamed father, who failed in trade; she inherited her fortune from her uncle instead."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lady directress of the ball",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman overseeing the Edinburgh ball. She has Lydia moved to another room when she faints, believing the heat has overcome her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Mitchelson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh lawyer who welcomes the Bramble family and helps them find lodgings. He dances a minuet with Tabitha at a ball as a gesture of hospitality."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young laird of Ballymawhawple",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Scottish laird who happens to attend the Edinburgh ball and dances with Tabitha Bramble when he cannot find another partner."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Moffat",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A pious Christian whom Tabitha Bramble meets among the Seceders and who assists her in private devotions. He later disputes with her about whether the torments of hell are eternal."
    },
    {
      "name": "The reverend Mr M’Corkindale",
      "aliases": [
        "the reverend master Mackcorkendal"
      ],
      "description": "A reverend preacher consulted by Tabitha Bramble and Humphry Clinker about the doctrine of eternal punishment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cawdie Fraser",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Fraser"
      ],
      "description": "A veteran Edinburgh cawdie and pimp, known for his humor and sagacity. He organizes a dinner and ball for the errand-boys and presides as toastmaster before yielding the chair to a noble guest."
    },
    {
      "name": "The nobleman who became Father of the Feast",
      "aliases": [
        "his Lordship",
        "the nobleman who had bore the first brunt of Mr Fraser’s satire"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed nobleman at the cawdies’ dinner who accepts Fraser’s satire in good humor and is elected to preside after Fraser yields his seat."
    },
    {
      "name": "The long-abroad nobleman",
      "aliases": [
        "the nobleman who had been long abroad"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed nobleman at the cawdies’ dinner, whom Fraser toasts for spending his rents in his own country."
    },
    {
      "name": "The member of parliament addressed by Fraser",
      "aliases": [
        "the member of parliament"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of parliament at the cawdies’ dinner, whom Fraser sarcastically toasts for rejecting Scots who sell their conscience and vote."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wealthy gambler at the cawdies’ dinner",
      "aliases": [
        "the person very gaily dressed",
        "the wylie loon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who rose from modest beginnings to make a considerable fortune at play. Fraser toasts his supposed good luck in leaving to gamble with an empty purse and returning with money."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Scot in Donald’s anecdote",
      "aliases": [
        "the honest highlander",
        "Donald"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Highlander in Matthew Bramble’s anecdote who, after surviving a stormy sea passage, says he will not trouble Providence again while the bridge of Stirling stands."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Mitchelson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr Mitchelson’s wife, who looks after Lydia when the family crosses the Firth of Forth because Lydia fears the water."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boatmen on the Firth crossing",
      "aliases": [
        "the boatmen"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed boatmen who continue navigating through a storm and safely land the Bramble party at Leith."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two Humes",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two Edinburgh authors whom Matthew Bramble names among the writers he meets; the passage does not identify them individually."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robertson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh author whom Matthew Bramble names among the distinguished writers he meets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Smith",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh author whom Matthew Bramble names among the distinguished writers he meets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wallace",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh author whom Matthew Bramble names among the distinguished writers he meets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Blair",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh author whom Matthew Bramble names among the distinguished writers he meets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ferguson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh author whom Matthew Bramble names among the distinguished writers he meets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wilkie",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Edinburgh author whom Matthew Bramble names among the distinguished writers he meets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr Carlyle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A friend of Matthew Bramble who introduces him to several Edinburgh authors."
    },
    {
      "name": "The professor of psalmody",
      "aliases": [
        "the professor from the cathedral of Durham"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed professor from Durham who teaches psalmody in Edinburgh."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr Gregory",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An eminent physician of amiable character whom Matthew Bramble consults about Lydia’s failing health. He advises highland air and goat-milk whey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr M’Corkindale",
      "aliases": [
        "the reverend master Mackcorkendal"
      ],
      "description": "A reverend theologian consulted by Tabitha Bramble about eternal punishment. He and other religious figures discuss Mr Moffat’s doubts about the meaning of ‘eternal’."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Moore",
      "aliases": [
        "the eminent surgeon",
        "our landlord"
      ],
      "description": "An eminent Glasgow surgeon who welcomes the Bramble family and introduces Matthew to people in the city. He is merry, shrewd, and hospitable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Moore",
      "aliases": [
        "his wife"
      ],
      "description": "Mr Moore’s agreeable, kind, and obliging wife, who welcomes the Bramble family in Glasgow."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Maclellan",
      "aliases": [
        "the rich inkle-manufacturer"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy Glasgow manufacturer whom Tabitha believes she has attracted. His attachment proves to be spiritual, arising from their shared religious meetings."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Wesley",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr John Wesley"
      ],
      "description": "An evangelical preacher whose mission brings him to Glasgow, where Tabitha and Mr Maclellan attend a meeting."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Argyle",
      "aliases": [
        "the duke of Argyle",
        "the late duke of Argyle",
        "the last duke"
      ],
      "description": "A powerful Scottish nobleman whose family and clan dominate the Inverary region. The late duke began a Gothic palace there, and the current duke is said to be able to assemble five thousand Campbells."
    },
    {
      "name": "Buchanan",
      "aliases": [
        "the elegant Buchanan"
      ],
      "description": "A writer who gives a notable description of Dumbarton Castle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird of Macfarlane",
      "aliases": [
        "the famous antiquarian",
        "the greatest genealogist"
      ],
      "description": "A Highland gentleman and antiquarian who knows Scotland’s genealogies and antiquities and can recite Ossian in the original Gaelic. The Brambles dine at his house."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ossian",
      "aliases": [
        "the divine bard"
      ],
      "description": "A celebrated bard whose poems are widely recited in the Highlands. Jeremy imagines his spirit when visiting a Highland hall."
    },
    {
      "name": "The piper of Dougal Campbell’s household",
      "aliases": [
        "the piper",
        "the hereditary officer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed hereditary household officer who plays the Highland bagpipe and insists on keeping his ancestral privileges despite his laird’s dislike of the music."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dougal Campbell",
      "aliases": [
        "Dou’l Mac-amish mac-’oul ichian",
        "the laird",
        "our landlord",
        "the Highland chief"
      ],
      "description": "A Highland chief and hereditary captain of one of the Duke of Argyle’s castles, descended from the Campbell family. He hosts the Brambles near Inverary and preserves his household’s traditional customs."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird’s kinsmen",
      "aliases": [
        "the laird’s relations"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed relatives of Dougal Campbell who enjoy the household piper’s daily performance and reject the laird’s request to stop it."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird’s vassals and dependents",
      "aliases": [
        "the crowd of his vassals and dependents"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed people who gather at Dougal Campbell’s house to present requests, complaints, and petitions, showing their deference to him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old gentlewoman buried near Inverary",
      "aliases": [
        "the old lady",
        "the grandmother of a gentleman in this neighbourhood"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly woman whose funeral Jeremy attends. Her body is accidentally left behind when the funeral party first rides to the church and is later carried by her nearest relations."
    },
    {
      "name": "The senachie at the funeral",
      "aliases": [
        "the orator"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Highland orator who delivers the deceased woman’s panegyric at her graveside."
    },
    {
      "name": "The coronach mourners",
      "aliases": [
        "the coronach",
        "a multitude of old hags"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed women who accompany the funeral procession, wailing and striking their breasts as they mourn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady H— C—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who cares for and supervises the Bramble women while Matthew and Jeremy travel into the Highlands."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Laird of Macfarlane’s household",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed members of the Macfarlane household who host the Brambles during their visit."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman friend of Sir George Colquhoun",
      "aliases": [
        "the gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Highland landowner and friend of Sir George Colquhoun, at whose house Matthew and Jeremy stay and are generously entertained."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Argyle’s clan chief",
      "aliases": [
        "the chief of that clan"
      ],
      "description": "The Earl of Breadalbane, whose clan is a branch of the Campbells."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Laird of M’Gregor",
      "aliases": [
        "the chief"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed leader of the M’Gregor clan who was outlawed after a brutal victory over the Colquhouns. His clan adopted other surnames while retaining M’Gregor."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Cameron of Lochiel",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Cameron of Lochiel",
        "the chief of that clan"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed chief whose father was attainted for involvement in the last rebellion. On returning from France, the young chief was welcomed by his scattered clan, which supplied him with seven hundred cattle; he died before benefiting from their loyalty."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sensible Highland patriot",
      "aliases": [
        "the sensible man of this country"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Highlander who establishes a fishery and a coarse-linen manufacture to employ poor people. His enterprises prosper until the late war takes his best workers into service."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Cochran",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Glasgow merchant and civic leader whom Matthew Bramble regards as a sage. He was the city’s first magistrate during the last rebellion and gave notable testimony before Parliament."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr John Gordon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Glasgow physician and civic benefactor, known as a patriot and a founder of the local linen manufacture. He promoted the city workhouse, infirmary, and other public works."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr G—ssf—d",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Glasgow merchant whom Matthew Bramble considers one of the greatest merchants in Europe, with extensive shipping and trade during the last war."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr P—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed person in the House of Commons who praised Mr Cochran’s testimony as exceptionally sensible."
    },
    {
      "name": "St Patrick",
      "aliases": [
        "the apostle of Ireland"
      ],
      "description": "A religious figure said to have been born near Glasgow, where a church and village retain his name."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Earl of Dundonald",
      "aliases": [
        "the earl of Dundonald"
      ],
      "description": "A Scottish nobleman who owns the former abbey at Paisley, now converted into a dwelling-house."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Prince of Wales",
      "aliases": [
        "the king’s eldest son"
      ],
      "description": "The king’s eldest son, who assumes the historic title of Baron of Renfrew."
    },
    {
      "name": "The venerable druid",
      "aliases": [
        "the admiral"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man nearing ninety who once owned the lands near Cameron and now lives contentedly in a small farmhouse. Called ‘the admiral’ by Mr Smollett, he loves the woods and steers his own pleasure-boat."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old woman who lives with the admiral",
      "aliases": [
        "his old woman",
        "the ancient couple’s woman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly woman who shares the admiral’s peaceful, healthy life in their farmhouse."
    },
    {
      "name": "The captain who sailed with Anson",
      "aliases": [
        "a captain of a man of war"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed naval captain who circumnavigated the globe with Mr Anson and compares a wooded glen near Bonhill to Juan Fernandez."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Anson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naval commander whose voyage around the world included the unnamed captain who visits the glen near Bonhill."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Highlander asked about game",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Highlander who tells Jeremy there are no Englishmen nearby when asked where to find game."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Laird of Macfarlane’s family",
      "aliases": [
        "the nearest relations of her family"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed relations of the Macfarlane family who attend the hunt and include foster brothers treated as members of the family."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird’s brother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed brother of the host laird who joins the Highland roebuck hunt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird’s brother’s son",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed nephew of the host laird who joins the Highland roebuck hunt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird’s sister’s son",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed nephew of the host laird who joins the Highland roebuck hunt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The laird’s father’s brother’s son",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed cousin of the host laird who joins the Highland roebuck hunt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The M’Gregor and Colquhoun clansmen",
      "aliases": [
        "the two clans"
      ],
      "description": "Members of the M’Gregor and Colquhoun clans, whose battle and subsequent political treatment illustrate the persistence of Highland clan identity."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old Scotch lawyer",
      "aliases": [
        "the Scotch lawyer",
        "the Scottish advocate",
        "Mr Micklewhimmen",
        "Micklewhimmen",
        "the advocate",
        "the captain",
        "Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago",
        "Mr Lismahago",
        "the North-Briton",
        "Occacanastaogarora"
      ],
      "description": "A Scottish lawyer and former army lieutenant captured by the Miamis, where he became a sachem and first warrior of the Badger tribe. He married Squinkinacoosta and had a son with her; after she died, he was exchanged for a captured orator and returned to Britain on half-pay. He courts Tabitha Bramble and is a learned, combative free-thinker who argues in defense of Scottish culture."
    },
    {
      "name": "The English officer who accompanied Lismahago",
      "aliases": [
        "ensign Murphy",
        "Murphy"
      ],
      "description": "An English ensign captured with Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago after escaping a French hospital. The Miamis tortured him and ultimately killed him; Lismahago says he bore his suffering with great courage, singing his death song with him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sachem",
      "aliases": [
        "the venerable sachem"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Miami leader who had lost a son in the war; the captors intended to adopt one of their prisoners as his son. Lismahago’s account also refers to an assembly of sachems that examined two French missionaries."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sachem’s intended daughter-in-law",
      "aliases": [
        "the beautiful squaw",
        "the lady"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman betrothed to the deceased son of the Miami sachem; the captors first planned for Ensign Murphy to marry her, then assigned her to Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Mi'ami torturers",
      "aliases": [
        "the women and children",
        "the warriors and matrons"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed Miami people who torture and kill prisoners. In Lismahago’s account, they torture Murphy, eat part of his flesh, and celebrate his death."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old woman who tortured Murphy",
      "aliases": [
        "the old lady"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Miami woman who scoops out one of Ensign Murphy’s eyes and places a burning coal in the socket during his torture."
    },
    {
      "name": "The warrior who killed Murphy",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the warriors"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Miami warrior who strikes Ensign Murphy with a hatchet, killing him after the torture."
    },
    {
      "name": "Squinkinacoosta",
      "aliases": [
        "Lismahago’s bride",
        "madam Squinkinacoosta",
        "the amiable Squinkinacoosta",
        "the squaw Squinkinacoosta",
        "the princess",
        "his consort"
      ],
      "description": "A Miami woman who married Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago after he became a sachem. She was exceptionally skilled at devising and carrying out tortures, bore him a son who represents her tribe, and later died of a fever after eating raw bear."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lismahago and Squinkinacoosta’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "the representative of his mother’s tribe"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed son of Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago and Squinkinacoosta, who represents his mother’s tribe."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two French missionaries",
      "aliases": [
        "the missionaries"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed French Catholic missionaries who attempt to convert the Miami community. After the sachems judge them impostors and order them to leave, they persist in preaching and baptizing; they are convicted of blasphemy and sedition and executed at the stake."
    },
    {
      "name": "The conjuring sachem",
      "aliases": [
        "the conjurer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Miami religious figure who plays the game of the platter with Squinkinacoosta after the other women have become intoxicated."
    },
    {
      "name": "The orator of the community",
      "aliases": [
        "the orator"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Miami community leader captured by Indians allied with the English. Lismahago is exchanged for him at the peace."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Northumberland parson",
      "aliases": [
        "the parson of the parish",
        "the vicar"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman at Musselburgh, called Dr C— in Matthew Bramble’s letter. Bramble enjoys his humor and conversation and wants to know him better."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Elibank",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Scottish nobleman whom Matthew Bramble has known in London and admires for his humanity, intelligence, and distinctive character. Bramble hopes to visit him near Haddington but learns that he is away in the north."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Cardonel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An old friend of Matthew Bramble’s, with whom Bramble drinks tea at Musselburgh."
    },
    {
      "name": "The widow who lodges the Bramble family in Edinburgh",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Lockhart",
        "Lockhart"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed widow gentlewoman in whose Edinburgh house the Bramble family rents decent lodgings."
    },
    {
      "name": "R— C—",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr R— C—",
        "Mr C—"
      ],
      "description": "An Edinburgh lawyer and friend of James Quin. He welcomes Jeremy Melford and hosts a convivial gathering after Jeremy delivers Quin’s introduction and a guinea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Grieve",
      "aliases": [
        "the agreeable miss Grieve"
      ],
      "description": "An agreeable young woman accompanying the Countess of Melville at an Edinburgh ball; Jeremy says she makes many conquests."
    },
    {
      "name": "Oliver Cromwell",
      "aliases": [
        "Oliver"
      ],
      "description": "The English commander whose forces fought the Scottish army at Dunbar. Matthew Bramble recounts how the Scots left their advantageous position and were defeated."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lesley",
      "aliases": [
        "Lesley"
      ],
      "description": "A Scottish commander who positioned his army near Dunbar and constrained Oliver Cromwell’s forces before the Scots abandoned their ground."
    },
    {
      "name": "Allan Ramsay",
      "aliases": [
        "Ramsay"
      ],
      "description": "A Scottish writer whose works Lieutenant Lismahago recommends to Jeremy Melford as examples of Scottish humor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Archy M’Alpin",
      "aliases": [
        "Archy M’Alpin"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly Scottish former soldier whom Jeremy Melford hires on trial as a valet after Dutton leaves. His last master, a colonel, recently died at Berwick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Humphreys",
      "aliases": [
        "the good sort of a woman who keeps the inn at Tweedmouth"
      ],
      "description": "A well-regarded innkeeper at Tweedmouth who recommends Archy M’Alpin to Jeremy Melford as a faithful servant."
    },
    {
      "name": "Master Macloughlin",
      "aliases": [
        "Leighlin Oneale",
        "Mr Oneale",
        "the Hibernian",
        "Teague"
      ],
      "description": "An Irish gentleman who claims descent from Tir-Owen the Great and says he became a private secretary to Mr Cosgrave after spending his fortune. He was travelling with Miss Skinner, who had agreed to marry him, but Dutton eloped with her before the wedding."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Skinner",
      "aliases": [
        "the Irishman’s bride"
      ],
      "description": "A young heiress with a fortune of five thousand pounds who had agreed to marry Master Macloughlin, also known as Leighlin Oneale. Dutton elopes with her and marries her at Coldstream."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Cosgrave",
      "aliases": [
        "the fashioner in Shuffolk-street"
      ],
      "description": "A London tailor who took the impoverished Master Macloughlin into his service as a private secretary and repeatedly bailed him out."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postilion who witnessed Dutton’s marriage",
      "aliases": [
        "the postilion returned from Coldstream"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed postilion who accompanies Dutton and Miss Skinner to Coldstream and witnesses their marriage. He returns wearing the bride’s favor and tells the abandoned Irishman what happened."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman whose house cost forty thousand pounds",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed landowner near Haddington who is said to have spent forty thousand pounds building and improving his house."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Bishop of Durham",
      "aliases": [
        "the bishop"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed bishop who lives in princely comfort in Durham."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Roxburgh",
      "aliases": [
        "the duke of Roxburgh"
      ],
      "description": "A nobleman who owns a park and lodge at Dunbar, where Oliver Cromwell once had his headquarters."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lord commissioner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed official presiding over the union parliament, whom a crowd threatened during a tumult over rumors that Scotland’s regalia had been taken to London."
    },
    {
      "name": "James VI",
      "aliases": [
        "king James VI"
      ],
      "description": "A Scottish king whose portraits are displayed at Holyrood-house."
    },
    {
      "name": "King William",
      "aliases": [
        "king William"
      ],
      "description": "A king included in the series of portraits of Scottish monarchs at Holyrood-house."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles II",
      "aliases": [
        "king Charles II"
      ],
      "description": "A king whose equestrian statue stands in Edinburgh’s Parliament-close."
    },
    {
      "name": "The musician who plays the Edinburgh bells",
      "aliases": [
        "the musician"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed city musician paid to play a set of bells using keys; Jeremy Melford praises his performance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The daughter and heiress of the deceased pawnbroker",
      "aliases": [
        "the London bride"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who gives her guardians the slip while travelling from London to Edinburgh with Master Macloughlin, intending to marry him. Dutton persuades her to leave Macloughlin and marries her at Coldstream."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two French missionaries’ guide",
      "aliases": [
        "the guide"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed guide appointed by the Miami sachems to escort each French missionary to the frontier after the community rejects their mission."
    },
    {
      "name": "The tall Irishman travelling with the heiress",
      "aliases": [
        "the Hibernian"
      ],
      "description": "Master Macloughlin, also known as Leighlin Oneale, who escorts the pawnbroker’s daughter toward Edinburgh to marry her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lydia Melford",
      "aliases": [
        "Liddy",
        "Miss Lydia Melford",
        "Lydia Melford Clifton"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s niece and Jeremy’s sister. During the family’s northern travels she admires the Countess of Melville and faints after a carriage accident."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jer. Melford",
      "aliases": [
        "Jery",
        "Jeremy Melford",
        "young master",
        "the squire"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s nephew and Lydia’s brother, who writes to Sir Watkin Phillips. He recounts the family’s northern travels, including the discovery that the apothecary Grieve is Ferdinand Count Fathom, and the arrival of Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Watkin Phillips",
      "aliases": [
        "Watkin Phillips",
        "Phillips",
        "Dear Knight",
        "Dear Wat"
      ],
      "description": "Jeremy Melford’s friend from college and frequent correspondent, addressed in Jeremy’s letters from the north."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lodgers at Harrigate",
      "aliases": [
        "the company"
      ],
      "description": "Visitors staying at the inns near Harrigate-water, including the Scottish lawyer Obadiah Lismahago and the lame Northumberland parson. Their conduct during a kitchen chimney fire becomes the subject of Jeremy’s account."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servants at Harrigate",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed servants accompanying the Harrigate lodgers; during a fire they help guests evacuate, and one servant accompanies Obadiah Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "The innkeeper who lodged the family near Harrigate",
      "aliases": [
        "the landlord"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed innkeeper at the lodging where the Bramble family stays near Harrigate-water. He announces that the fire has been extinguished."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lame parson from Northumberland",
      "aliases": [
        "the parson",
        "the cripple",
        "the reverend clergyman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman from Northumberland who disputes with Tabitha Bramble about religious doctrine. During a fire, Obadiah Lismahago knocks him down while fleeing; the parson strikes back with his crutch, and they later joke about their injuries."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old lady who gave up her room",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed lodger at Harrigate who gives Obadiah Lismahago her best room for his comfort."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two ladies who supported Lismahago",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two unnamed women at Harrigate who support Obadiah Lismahago into the dining room and help seat him; Tabitha Bramble is one of them."
    },
    {
      "name": "The clothier from Leeds",
      "aliases": [
        "the young clothier"
      ],
      "description": "A boastful young clothier staying at Harrigate who drinks most of Lismahago’s claret, believing it to be a violent purgative, and suffers imagined symptoms before leaving the inn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Doctor Waugh",
      "aliases": [
        "doctor Waugh"
      ],
      "description": "A physician from Rippon whom Obadiah Lismahago tells the clothier to summon after the clothier believes he has swallowed a strong purgative."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old gentlewoman bruised in the fire",
      "aliases": [
        "the poor old gentlewoman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly guest at Harrigate who is knocked down and badly bruised in the crowd fleeing the fire; Jeremy helps her up."
    },
    {
      "name": "The vicar of Grieve’s parish",
      "aliases": [
        "the parson of the parish",
        "the vicar"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who identifies Seraphina Melvilia’s baptismal names and explains to Jeremy that Grieve is Ferdinand Count Fathom."
    },
    {
      "name": "Squire Burdock",
      "aliases": [
        "‘squire Burdock",
        "Mr Burdock",
        "the Yorkshire cousin",
        "our cousin Burdock",
        "the squire"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy Yorkshire relation of Matthew Bramble who married Bramble’s father’s cousin. A former fox-hunter and outspoken opponent of the ministry, he feigns muteness after losing a fight, then reveals he is unharmed; he lives with an overbearing wife and a son who scorns him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Yorkshire landlady",
      "aliases": [
        "the ‘squire’s lady",
        "the ‘squire’s wife",
        "madam",
        "the lady of the house",
        "our Yorkshire landlady"
      ],
      "description": "Squire Burdock’s proud, sharp-tongued wife, who treats visitors condescendingly and is said to have no friends. She insults Lydia and Tabitha and resents her husband’s independence, though she fears provoking him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Yorkshire squire’s groom",
      "aliases": [
        "the groom"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed groom who scratches Squire Burdock’s back so skillfully that Burdock insists no other servant do it."
    },
    {
      "name": "The huntsman at Burdock’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the huntsman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed huntsman who recounts the day’s chase to Squire Burdock each night."
    },
    {
      "name": "The footmen at Burdock’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the footmen"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed servants at Squire Burdock’s house, described as insolent, inattentive, and greedy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Count of Melville",
      "aliases": [
        "the count",
        "Monsieur de Melville",
        "the count de Melville"
      ],
      "description": "A French nobleman travelling to Scotland with his wife. He is robbed on the road, then recognizes Grieve as his childhood friend Ferdinand Fathom and learns that Seraphina is his goddaughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Countess of Melville",
      "aliases": [
        "the countess",
        "Madame de Melville"
      ],
      "description": "The Count of Melville’s amiable wife, who is travelling with him to Scotland. She recognizes Elinor as a former beneficiary and embraces Elinor and her daughter Seraphina when they are reunited."
    },
    {
      "name": "Grieve",
      "aliases": [
        "the country apothecary",
        "Mr Grieve",
        "Ferdinand Count Fathom",
        "Ferdinand",
        "the apothecary"
      ],
      "description": "A village apothecary and surgeon who treats Squire Burdock and bravely stops a robbery, saving the Count and Countess of Melville. He is revealed to be Ferdinand Count Fathom, the Count’s childhood companion, living modestly under an assumed name with his wife Elinor and daughter Seraphina."
    },
    {
      "name": "The York surgeon",
      "aliases": [
        "the surgeon",
        "the operator"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed surgeon summoned from York to trepan Squire Burdock. He insists on operating despite Grieve’s doubts, but Burdock recovers and throws him and his assistants out."
    },
    {
      "name": "The York surgeon’s apprentice",
      "aliases": [
        "the ‘prentice"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed apprentice who accompanies the York surgeon and helps prepare Squire Burdock for trepanation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The robber who attacked the Count",
      "aliases": [
        "the rascal",
        "the robber"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed mounted highwayman who robs the Count and threatens the Countess. Grieve knocks him down with a crab-stick, and he is captured."
    },
    {
      "name": "The robber’s colleague",
      "aliases": [
        "the other robber"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed mounted highwayman who fires at random during the attack on the Count and escapes when Grieve confronts him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The coachman of the Count’s carriage",
      "aliases": [
        "the coachman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed driver whose carriage is held up by highwaymen; he helps secure one robber."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Count’s servants",
      "aliases": [
        "the count’s servants"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed servants left at a public house on the road while the Count and Countess travel onward."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elinor",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Grieve",
        "Grieve’s wife",
        "the poor Elinor"
      ],
      "description": "Grieve’s wife, formerly a beneficiary of the Count and Countess of Melville. She recognizes them during their visit and reveals that their daughter Seraphina is their goddaughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "Seraphina Melvilia",
      "aliases": [
        "Seraphina",
        "Grieve’s daughter",
        "the daughter"
      ],
      "description": "The daughter of Ferdinand Count Fathom and Elinor, baptized under names honoring the Count and Countess of Melville. The Count and Countess are her godparents and are reunited with her when the family’s identities are revealed."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wife of Mr Pimpernel",
      "aliases": [
        "Pimpernel’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman married to Mr Pimpernel, whom he acquired from a drayman. Though kind and respected locally, she has little authority in her home and cannot secure education for her children."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Pimpernel",
      "aliases": [
        "Pimpernel"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy relation of Matthew Bramble, formerly an attorney and now an acting justice of the peace. He is described as miserly, despotic, and cruel to his wife, children, servants, tenants, and neighbors."
    },
    {
      "name": "The children of Mr Pimpernel",
      "aliases": [
        "Pimpernel’s children"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed children of Mr Pimpernel and his wife, left uneducated and to run about wild because their father denies them care."
    },
    {
      "name": "The nurse caring for the blacksmith’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "the nurse"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed nurse hired by the parish to care for a recently delivered woman who has lost her senses."
    },
    {
      "name": "The deceased blacksmith",
      "aliases": [
        "the blacksmith"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed village blacksmith who has been dead for several days when the Bramble coach breaks near his forge. His wife, in delirium, mistakes Humphry Clinker for him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The blacksmith’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "the poor woman",
        "the poor widow",
        "the woman in the straw"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who has recently given birth and lost her senses after her blacksmith husband’s death. Hearing the hammer and anvil, she mistakes Humphry Clinker for her husband Jacob."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jacob",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The name the delirious wife of the deceased blacksmith calls Humphry Clinker, mistaking him for her dead husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "Edward Martin",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Martin",
        "Martin"
      ],
      "description": "A courteous and resourceful highwayman who robbed Mr Mead but intervenes to protect Humphry Clinker from a false accusation. Matthew Bramble advises him to pursue a commission in the East India Company, and Martin leaves to seek passage to London."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justice Buzzard",
      "aliases": [
        "gustass Busshard",
        "Mr Justice Buzzard"
      ],
      "description": "A London magistrate who commits Humphry Clinker on the postilion’s accusation. Edward Martin says Buzzard has set traps for him and is pursuing him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young gentleman robbed with the Count",
      "aliases": [
        "the young ‘squire"
      ],
      "description": "Squire Burdock’s son, who rides ahead while the Count and Countess of Melville are attacked by highwaymen."
    },
    {
      "name": "The exciseman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed excise officer whom Squire Burdock challenges to a bout at single-stick; Burdock’s defeat leaves him pretending to have lost his speech."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servant accompanying Lismahago",
      "aliases": [
        "his man",
        "his own servant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who leads Lismahago into the Harrigate public room, later assists him, and helps him evacuate during the fire."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fiddler at Harrigate",
      "aliases": [
        "the fidler"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed musician called to play for Obadiah Lismahago after a fire; Lismahago dances a Scottish measure to demonstrate that he can move."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hewett",
      "aliases": [
        "H[ewet]t",
        "H—",
        "Cavallo Bianco",
        "Demonstrator"
      ],
      "description": "An eccentric English traveller whom Matthew Bramble meets at Scarborough. Known for his pale horse and irreligious wit, he repeatedly circuits Europe, intends to confer with Voltaire, and later dies in Florence after refusing food when his illness passes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cardinal Camerlengo",
      "aliases": [
        "the cardinal Camerlengo"
      ],
      "description": "A cardinal who reports Hewett’s irreverent joke at the bust of Jupiter to Pope Benedict XIV."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pope Benedict XIV",
      "aliases": [
        "Benedict XIV"
      ],
      "description": "The pope who laughs at Hewett’s joke about Jupiter and remarks on English heretics."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Count of Fathom’s patron",
      "aliases": [
        "the count"
      ],
      "description": "The Count of Melville, whose generous allowance Ferdinand Fathom gives up when he settles under the name Grieve."
    },
    {
      "name": "The M— of G—",
      "aliases": [
        "the M— of G—"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed nobleman, former pupil and friend of Hewett, whom Hewett visits at Scarborough."
    },
    {
      "name": "Voltaire",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr de Voltaire"
      ],
      "description": "A writer in France whom Hewett plans to visit to discuss challenging Christian belief; a later editorial note says Hewett met him at Fernay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vanini",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person whose house in Florence is identified in an editorial note as the place where Hewett died."
    },
    {
      "name": "The guide at the Scarborough bathing place",
      "aliases": [
        "the guide"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed bathing attendant who is overturned when Humphry Clinker rushes into the sea to rescue Matthew Bramble."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postilions on the journey north",
      "aliases": [
        "the postilions"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed carriage drivers who carefully drive the family on the road north and later draw their damaged coach to a blacksmith’s forge."
    },
    {
      "name": "The blacksmith’s wife’s newborn child",
      "aliases": [
        "the child"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed infant whose mother has recently given birth before becoming delirious."
    },
    {
      "name": "The neighbours of Grieve",
      "aliases": [
        "the farmers and common people"
      ],
      "description": "Local residents who provide Grieve with a modest medical practice through his humane and successful care."
    },
    {
      "name": "The constable or officer pursuing Martin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Justice Buzzard, who Edward Martin says has set traps for him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The landlord of the inn at Scarborough",
      "aliases": [
        "the landlord"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed innkeeper whose house the Bramble family stays at in Scarborough."
    },
    {
      "name": "The ostler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed stable worker who fails to hold Lieutenant Lismahago’s stirrup, causing his saddle to turn and throwing him to the ground."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lieutenant’s horse",
      "aliases": [
        "the favourite steed"
      ],
      "description": "A gaunt, elderly horse that Lieutenant Lismahago values as the only present he has ever received."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lieutenant Lismahago’s lieutenant’s Indian captors",
      "aliases": [
        "the party of Indians",
        "the Miamis"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed Miami captors who seize Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago and Ensign Murphy after they flee a French hospital. They torture the prisoners and decide their fates."
    },
    {
      "name": "Birkin",
      "aliases": [
        "the bookseller"
      ],
      "description": "A prosperous bookseller who quarrels with Tim Cropdale over unpaid publishing costs and a pair of new boots Cropdale has taken. He offers a reward for the boots and is willing to settle matters with Cropdale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tim Cropdale",
      "aliases": [
        "little Tim Cropdale",
        "Tim"
      ],
      "description": "A comic writer who makes a living by practical jokes and has taken Birkin’s boots. Mr S— recounts how Cropdale once sold his pony and escaped punishment by disguising himself as a blind beggar."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Scottish lecturer",
      "aliases": [
        "the Scotchman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Scottish author who gives lectures on English pronunciation and is publishing them by subscription. He was trained in surgery and helps Birkin remove a thorn from his foot."
    },
    {
      "name": "The author at the Sunday gathering",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr S—",
        "the landlord",
        "the master of the feast"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed successful writer who hosts a weekly meal for fellow authors and supports many of them with money, lodging, work, and credit. He also directs a literary journal, whose criticism has made him a target of anonymous attacks, including from some of his own guests."
    },
    {
      "name": "The stuttering guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the stutterer",
        "the stuttering wit"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed author at Mr S—’s gathering whose feigned stutter became habitual. He claims to have travelled through Europe and Asia without leaving the King’s Bench liberties except under escort."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dick Ivy",
      "aliases": [
        "Dick"
      ],
      "description": "An old acquaintance of Jeremy Melford who introduces him to Mr S—’s gathering. He explains Mr S—’s generosity toward authors, though Jeremy suspects Ivy resents a review of his own work."
    },
    {
      "name": "The spectacles seller",
      "aliases": [
        "the Jew-pedlar"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed peddler selling spectacles at the Hot Well; Lydia later recognizes Wilson disguised as such a man."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Brentford",
      "aliases": [
        "the milliner from Gloucester"
      ],
      "description": "A Gloucester milliner who carries letters between Laetitia Willis and Lydia. Lydia sends her letter with Mrs Brentford on her return journey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ralph Barton",
      "aliases": [
        "Henry Barton",
        "Mr Barton",
        "Barton"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy country gentleman and politician who courts Lydia Melford, with Lady Griskin acting as his advocate. He mistakenly allows Tabitha to believe he intends to marry her, then clarifies that his affections are fixed on Lydia; Lydia refuses him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Griskin",
      "aliases": [
        "lady Griskin"
      ],
      "description": "A fashionable widow of Sir Timothy Griskin and distant relation of the Brambles. She promotes Ralph Barton’s suit to Lydia, reconciles with Tabitha after their quarrel, and becomes involved in the family’s religious and matrimonial schemes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr W—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed preacher whose sermons Humphry Clinker buys and studies; his preaching helps kindle Clinker’s Methodist devotion."
    },
    {
      "name": "The influential weaver preacher",
      "aliases": [
        "the weaver"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed weaver who is widely followed as a powerful Methodist minister. Humphry Clinker says his example encouraged him to preach."
    },
    {
      "name": "The constable",
      "aliases": [
        "the thief-taker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed officer who helps arrest Humphry Clinker and accompanies Jeremy to the prison. He explains that the highwayman Edward Martin is suspected of many robberies."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postilion who accused Clinker",
      "aliases": [
        "the shabby country postilion",
        "the postilion dismissed on the journey"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed former postilion who identifies Humphry Clinker as the man who robbed his chaise, leading to Clinker’s imprisonment. He is later committed for robbery himself, and the text describes him as an old offender who had once informed on accomplices."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young lawyer at Clinker’s examination",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Martin",
        "the Templar"
      ],
      "description": "A well-dressed young man who challenges the justice’s treatment of Clinker and argues that the prisoner is innocent. He is revealed as Edward Martin, a celebrated highwayman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Mead",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The gentleman robbed on Blackheath, who visits Clinker in prison and swears that Clinker was not the robber. His statement helps secure Clinker’s release on bail."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gaoler of Clerkenwell",
      "aliases": [
        "the gaoler"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed keeper of Clerkenwell prison, who receives Humphry Clinker in irons. His wife and daughter attend Clinker’s preaching."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gaoler’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The wife of the Clerkenwell gaoler, who attends Humphry Clinker’s preaching and calls him a saint in trouble."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gaoler’s daughter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The daughter of the Clerkenwell gaoler, who attends Humphry Clinker’s preaching."
    },
    {
      "name": "The turnkey",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Clerkenwell prison attendant who complains that Clinker’s preaching has made the prisoners stop drinking and that the prison has lost its usual spirit."
    },
    {
      "name": "The accomplice who testified against Martin",
      "aliases": [
        "the accomplice"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed accomplice whose evidence leads to Edward Martin’s arrest and commitment for highway robbery."
    },
    {
      "name": "The timber-merchant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed merchant who employed Edward Martin as a clerk before dismissing him after Martin secretly married his daughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The timber-merchant’s daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "Martin’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who secretly married Edward Martin and was turned out of her father’s home. She died not long after the marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman who lent Mr S— his pony",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr S—’s friend"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed acquaintance of Mr S— who lent him a pony and later approached Cropdale to request his forgiveness and offer repayment after Cropdale sold it."
    },
    {
      "name": "The author who wrote the defamatory attacks on Mr S—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of Mr S—’s author guests, whose identity is not specified. Dick Ivy says several guests helped write anonymous attacks on their benefactor."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old author compiling material for a modern historian",
      "aliases": [
        "Salmon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed writer in his eighties who lives in a garret and compiles material by the sheet for a much younger modern historian."
    },
    {
      "name": "Psalmanazar",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer who has laboured in literature for half a century and now survives on the charity of booksellers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Guy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A bookseller who founded an institution referred to as a hospital; Jeremy suggests that it should have a wing for impoverished authors."
    },
    {
      "name": "The modern historian",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed historian, much younger than Salmon, who pays the elderly writer to compile material."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir William Strollop",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The former master of Jeremy Melford’s new valet, Dutton, who vouches for Dutton’s honesty."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dutton",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Dutton"
      ],
      "description": "Jeremy Melford’s newly hired valet, taken on trial for the journey north. Recently returned from abroad, he is a foppish dresser and skilled hairdresser."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lord chief justice",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed chief justice who orders Humphry Clinker admitted to bail after reviewing Mr Mead’s affidavit and the circumstances of the accusation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two suspected highwaymen",
      "aliases": [
        "the two rogues"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed men on horseback who appear to threaten the Brambles’ coach near Hatfield and fire at Martin and Clinker before fleeing across the common."
    },
    {
      "name": "The landlord of the inn at Hatfield",
      "aliases": [
        "the landlord"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed innkeeper who recognizes Edward Martin and knows that two other men robbed three post-chaises that morning."
    },
    {
      "name": "The female members of the Bramble household",
      "aliases": [
        "the three women"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s sister Tabitha, niece Lydia, and maid Winifred Jenkins, who travel with him and Jeremy on the journey north."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saul",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person at Brambleton Hall whom Winifred Jenkins asks Mary Jones to remember; Win says Saul does not yet know her letters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Gwyllim",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Gwillim",
        "Gwyllim",
        "Gwillim"
      ],
      "description": "Housekeeper at Brambleton Hall. Tabitha writes to her with household instructions for the family’s absence and asks her to supervise the servants and provisions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Roger Williams",
      "aliases": [
        "Williams",
        "the hind Villiams",
        "the hind"
      ],
      "description": "A Brambleton Hall servant, also called the hind. Tabitha tells Mrs Gwyllim to watch him, suspecting he is an associate of Dr Lewis and criticizing his conduct."
    },
    {
      "name": "The vagrant preacher at the Tabernacle",
      "aliases": [
        "Apias Korkus",
        "the conjuror"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed person whom Winifred Jenkins claims helped free Humphry Clinker from prison through supernatural powers. Her account is a credulous and distorted retelling of events."
    },
    {
      "name": "The poor prisoners at Clerkenwell",
      "aliases": [
        "the felons"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed group of prisoners who listen to Humphry Clinker preach; some are said to have adopted Methodism."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two men who robbed three post-chaises",
      "aliases": [
        "the two rogues"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed highwaymen who fire at Edward Martin and Humphry Clinker near Hatfield, then flee across the common."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary Jones",
      "aliases": [
        "Molly",
        "Mrs Mary Jones"
      ],
      "description": "A servant at Brambleton Hall and Winifred Jenkins’s correspondent, to whom Win writes from London."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chowder",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Tabitha Bramble’s dog, given to Lady Griskin as a present. On the road, he bites John Thomas during a fight."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Timothy Griskin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Lady Griskin’s late husband, identified as a distant relation of the Bramble family."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Thomas",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A servant who leaves the Bramble household in anger after fighting with Chowder and speaking insolently to Tabitha."
    },
    {
      "name": "The King of England",
      "aliases": [
        "the king"
      ],
      "description": "The reigning king, whom Barton praises as an exceptionally amiable sovereign during a court festival."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Cumberland",
      "aliases": [
        "the duke of C[umberland]"
      ],
      "description": "A royal duke whom Barton praises as a distinguished military hero for defeating the rebellion."
    },
    {
      "name": "The royal nephews",
      "aliases": [
        "the princes of the blood",
        "the sweet young princes"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed young royal nephews of the Duke of Cumberland, seen beside him at court."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Queen",
      "aliases": [
        "the queen"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed queen, whom Matthew Bramble points out during the court festival."
    },
    {
      "name": "The favourite earl",
      "aliases": [
        "the favourite yearl",
        "the northern star",
        "the Caledonian luminary"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed earl who is described as a former political favourite now diminished in influence."
    },
    {
      "name": "The grand pensionary",
      "aliases": [
        "the weathercock of patriotism"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed political figure whom Matthew Bramble criticizes for shifting with public opinion and regaining a place at court."
    },
    {
      "name": "The grand pensionary’s first satellite",
      "aliases": [
        "the first satellite"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed political associate of the grand pensionary, whom Bramble describes as rancorous and influential."
    },
    {
      "name": "The grand pensionary’s second satellite",
      "aliases": [
        "the second satellite"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed politician expected to share in the administration, whom Bramble condemns as unprincipled and opportunistic."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old Duke of N—",
      "aliases": [
        "the duke of N—",
        "his grace"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly duke and former minister who keeps a levee despite having lost much of his former power. He mistakes Matthew Bramble for an old political ally and repeatedly confuses people and events."
    },
    {
      "name": "Matthew Bramble’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the captain in the army"
      ],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s late brother, who served as an army captain. The Duke of N— mistakenly recalls him as an Irish bishop."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bishop Blackberry",
      "aliases": [
        "the Irish bishop"
      ],
      "description": "A bishop whom the Duke of N— mistakenly claims was Matthew Bramble’s brother; Bramble says he was not a member of the family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain C—",
      "aliases": [
        "the captain"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly, sharp-witted government agent who claims to have served as a spy in Spain and France. Jeremy reports suspicions that he is secretly a Roman Catholic priest and gathers intelligence for France."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Algerine ambassador",
      "aliases": [
        "the ambassador from Algiers",
        "Ibrahim"
      ],
      "description": "An ambassador from Algiers who visits the Duke of N— at his levee. After the duke greets him in a shaving cloth, he remarks through his interpreter on England’s leadership."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dragoman",
      "aliases": [
        "the interpreter"
      ],
      "description": "The Algerine ambassador’s interpreter, who explains the Duke of N—’s identity to him and speaks with Captain C—."
    },
    {
      "name": "The ambassador’s household officer",
      "aliases": [
        "the other officer of his household"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed officer accompanying the Algerine ambassador to the duke’s levee."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Francis",
      "aliases": [
        "the person the duke mistakes Jeremy for"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed person whom the Duke of N— mistakes Jeremy Melford for at the levee."
    },
    {
      "name": "C— T—",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr T—",
        "my friend C— T—"
      ],
      "description": "A witty and able government figure whom Captain C— calls one of the few capable people in the administration, while criticizing his inconsistency and lack of courage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The political bully",
      "aliases": [
        "the overbearing Hector"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed powerful political figure whom Captain C— says intimidates C— T—."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed author at the London visit",
      "aliases": [
        "the dogmatical author",
        "the new Pythagoras"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed contemporary author whom Matthew Bramble meets at a friend’s house. He dismisses celebrated writers and quarrels with Bramble when challenged."
    },
    {
      "name": "The rival bard",
      "aliases": [
        "the declamatory writer",
        "the Aristarchus"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed writer who enters during Matthew Bramble’s dispute with another author. He harangues against nearly all contemporary writers while praising his own circle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The publisher of the defamatory paper",
      "aliases": [
        "the anonymous accuser"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed publisher discussed by Matthew Bramble and Barton in connection with anonymous attacks on public figures."
    },
    {
      "name": "The captain who assaulted a newspaper publisher",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed captain who broke a newspaper publisher’s bones after a paper accused his regiment of misbehaving at Dettingen."
    },
    {
      "name": "The publisher accused over Dettingen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed newspaper publisher who was assaulted by a captain after printing an accusation against the captain’s regiment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Governor—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed governor who, according to Matthew Bramble, assaulted an author for traducing him in a periodical paper."
    },
    {
      "name": "The author assaulted by Governor—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed periodical writer whom Governor— assaulted after the writer attacked him by name."
    },
    {
      "name": "The expatriate writer in Lugano",
      "aliases": [
        "the low fellow"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed writer expelled from Venice for scurrility who continued publishing attacks from Lugano and was beaten by people acting for those he had defamed."
    },
    {
      "name": "The disguised spectacle-wearing guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the guest with spectacles"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed author at Mr S—’s gathering who wears spectacles as an affectation, though he is said to have a keen eye when evading a bailiff."
    },
    {
      "name": "The hat-wearing guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the guest with the flapped hat"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed author at Mr S—’s gathering who wears his hat flapped despite having no lasting sight defect; a player once gave him two black eyes."
    },
    {
      "name": "The crutch-using guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the guest with the laced stocking"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed author at Mr S—’s gathering who affects the use of crutches despite being able to leap agilely."
    },
    {
      "name": "The country-hating guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the agrophobe",
        "the delicate philosopher"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed author at Mr S—’s gathering who feigns horror of the countryside despite having grown up in rural poverty. He has written a treatise on agriculture without having seen crops growing."
    },
    {
      "name": "The affectedly distracted guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the fifth guest"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed author at Mr S—’s gathering who acts as if distracted, with sudden oaths, laughter, sighs, and hissing."
    },
    {
      "name": "The yellow-gloved guest",
      "aliases": [
        "the winking genius",
        "the yellow-gloved philosopher"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, winking guest at Mr S—’s gathering who initially scorned the host for seeming ordinary, then became his acquaintance after learning of his defiance of Wat Wyvil."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wat Wyvil",
      "aliases": [
        "Wyvil"
      ],
      "description": "A poet who tried to force Mr S— to admit him by threatening to publish praise or satire. After S— rejected the threat and beat him for publishing the praise, Wyvil swore the peace and gained entry to his good graces."
    },
    {
      "name": "The expelled philosopher",
      "aliases": [
        "the most learned philosopher"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed philosopher expelled from university for atheism, now writing a refutation of Lord Bolingbroke’s metaphysical works. He has also been presented to a grand jury for blasphemy."
    },
    {
      "name": "My Lord Potatoe",
      "aliases": [
        "the Irishman"
      ],
      "description": "An Irish political writer who wrote a pamphlet defending a minister, then secretly claimed the minister wrote it and answered it himself to deceive the public."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Piedmontese poet",
      "aliases": [
        "the Piedmontese"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed writer at Mr S—’s gathering who wrote a satirical work on English poets titled *The Ballance of the English Poets*."
    },
    {
      "name": "The publisher of the ode to the king of Prussia",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Birkin, the bookseller who published Tim Cropdale’s ode to the king of Prussia."
    },
    {
      "name": "The king of Prussia",
      "aliases": [
        "the Prussian majesty"
      ],
      "description": "A monarch mentioned in an anecdote at the duke’s levee and as the subject of Tim Cropdale’s ode. The text does not identify him by name."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Bolingbroke",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A political writer whose metaphysical works are being refuted by the unnamed expelled philosopher."
    },
    {
      "name": "The schoolmaster at the authors’ gathering",
      "aliases": [
        "the pedant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed guest at Mr S—’s gathering who displays his knowledge of prosody and classical quotations during a debate on poetry."
    },
    {
      "name": "The actor who gave the guest black eyes",
      "aliases": [
        "the player"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed actor who once gave the hat-wearing guest at Mr S—’s gathering two black eyes during a drunken quarrel."
    },
    {
      "name": "The author who wrote the poem to S—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Wat Wyvil, whose threatened praise and satire of Mr S— led to a quarrel and a beating."
    },
    {
      "name": "The ten messmates",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The group of ten authors seated at Mr S—’s Sunday table, including Jeremy Melford; the passage does not identify every member individually."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young man mistaken for Sir Francis",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Melford"
      ],
      "description": "Jeremy Melford, whom the Duke of N— mistakes for Sir Francis at the levee."
    },
    {
      "name": "Barns",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s agent or steward, whom Bramble asks Dr Lewis to have supervise the hay and corn harvests."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Ulic Mackilligut",
      "aliases": [
        "Sir Ulic",
        "Sir Yury Micligut"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly Irish baronet from Galway who lodged in Bath with the Bramble family. Tabitha breaks off their connection after he kicks Chowder."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Master of the Ceremonies",
      "aliases": [
        "Derrick"
      ],
      "description": "A small, polite Bath official who guides visitors and oversees public rooms and balls; he is also a poet and aspiring playwright. Tabitha strikes his knuckles with her fan after he tries to drive Chowder from a room."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French lodger’s master",
      "aliases": [
        "colonel Rigworm",
        "the Creole colonel"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Creole gentleman and colonel lodging in the same house as the Bramble family in Bath. Lydia calls him peaceable after Bramble beats his two Black musicians."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two French-horn players",
      "aliases": [
        "the two negroes",
        "the black trumpeters",
        "the two black-a-moors"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed enslaved men belonging to the Creole colonel. Bramble beats them during his first days in Bath."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pumper",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed attendant who serves water at the Pump-room, with his wife and a servant."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pumper’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who attends the Pump-room bar with the pumper."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pumper’s servant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who attends the Pump-room bar with the pumper and his wife."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Gill",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A pastry-cook in Bath whose shop Lydia visits with her aunt and Win."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain O Donaghan",
      "aliases": [
        "the captain",
        "Sir Ulic’s nephew"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Ulic Mackilligut’s nephew, recommended as Lydia’s dancing partner. Lydia finds him handsome but too bold, and Jeremy steers her away from him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The famous dog-doctor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed dog doctor summoned to treat Chowder after an accident; Tabitha refuses to let him take the dog home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Parson Marrofat",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A clergyman who suffers from dropsy and, like Tabitha’s dog Chowder, is said to seek benefit from the Bath waters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs Patcher",
      "aliases": [
        "my lady Kilmacullock’s woman"
      ],
      "description": "A maid to Lady Kilmacullock who becomes Winifred Jenkins’s close friend in Bath and teaches her ways to clean and refresh clothes."
    },
    {
      "name": "The child with scrophulous ulcers",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed sick child carried by a bath guide through the King’s Bath, whose appearance so alarms Matthew Bramble that he leaves."
    },
    {
      "name": "The bath guide",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed attendant carrying a child with scrophulous ulcers through the King’s Bath."
    },
    {
      "name": "The doctor at the Pump-room",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed doctor with whom Matthew Bramble discusses how the Pump-room’s water supply is constructed."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Master of the Ceremonies’ mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs Helen Gwynn"
      ],
      "description": "A woman whom Tabitha mistakenly assumes to be related to the actor James Quin; Quin says she was not his mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "James Quin",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr James Quin",
        "Quin"
      ],
      "description": "A celebrated actor and old friend of Matthew Bramble, whom Bramble renews his acquaintance with in Bath. Jeremy describes him as well-bred, loyal, witty, and an enthusiastic eater and drinker."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jack Holder",
      "aliases": [
        "Holder"
      ],
      "description": "A former clerical student who inherits an estate and spends lavishly in Bath. His tea party descends into a scramble for sweets and flowers until his French horns shame the guests into stopping."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two women who fought over refreshments",
      "aliases": [
        "the two amazons"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed guests who distinguish themselves in the scramble at Jack Holder’s tea party; they are later said to be a baroness and a wealthy knight’s widow from the fashionable neighborhood of St James’s."
    },
    {
      "name": "The baroness at Holder’s tea party",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the two amazons"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed baroness who is one of the two guests most involved in the scramble for refreshments at Jack Holder’s tea party."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wealthy knight’s dowager",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the two amazons"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed wealthy knight’s widow who is one of the two guests most involved in the scramble for refreshments at Jack Holder’s tea party."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rear-admiral Balderick",
      "aliases": [
        "Sam"
      ],
      "description": "An old companion of Matthew Bramble’s youth, whom Bramble unexpectedly meets in Bath. He has a wooden leg and laments receiving only a rear-admiral’s half-pay after long service."
    },
    {
      "name": "Colonel Cockril",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A former friend of Matthew Bramble, now severely disabled after an American campaign. Bramble recognizes him in a Bath coffeehouse by the remaining bust of his body."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Reginald Bently",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Matthew Bramble’s former college companion, now a baronet with a contracted posture after becoming a fox-hunter and riding through a river."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young man who dances with Lydia",
      "aliases": [
        "the only son of a wealthy undertaker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, petulant young man from London who dances a minuet with Lydia at a Bath ball; his mother lodges near the Brambles and knows Tabitha."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wealthy undertaker’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman from London who lodges near the Bramble family and has become acquainted with Tabitha."
    },
    {
      "name": "Doctor Ch—",
      "aliases": [
        "our friend Ch—",
        "the doctor who attended Matthew Bramble"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed physician whom Matthew Bramble consults in Bath. He recommends a visit to the King’s Bath and later explains Bramble’s fainting at a ball as a reaction to foul odors."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tobias Smollett",
      "aliases": [
        "T. Smollett"
      ],
      "description": "The author named on the title page; not a character in the story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Martin Adamson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Named as one of the eBook’s producers; not a character in the story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andreas Philipp",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Named as one of the eBook’s producers; not a character in the story."
    },
    {
      "name": "David Widger",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Named as one of the eBook’s producers; not a character in the story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry Davis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A London bookseller considering publication of the letters. He corresponds with Jonathan Dustwich and mentions his wife and cousin Madoc."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonathan Dustwich",
      "aliases": [
        "J.D."
      ],
      "description": "A clergyman and editor who has obtained the letters and is negotiating their publication with Henry Davis. He recounts a dispute with Justice Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hugo Behn",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Behn"
      ],
      "description": "A reverend and friend of Jonathan Dustwich who delivered the letters to Henry Davis."
    },
    {
      "name": "Davy Higgins",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Davy Higgins"
      ],
      "description": "An attorney in Abergavenny whom Dustwich consults about the legal risks of publishing the letters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justice Lismahago",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Justice Lismahago",
        "Lismahago"
      ],
      "description": "A justice whom Dustwich accuses of being a vagrant foreigner and suspects, without proof, of being a disguised Jesuit. He clashed with Dustwich at Mr Kendal’s table."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Kendal",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person whose table hosted a dispute between Jonathan Dustwich and Justice Lismahago."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry Davis’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Henry Davis’s wife, who sends her compliments to his cousin Madoc and likes toasted cheese."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madoc",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Madoc"
      ],
      "description": "Henry Davis’s cousin and Dustwich’s neighbour; Davis sends him an almanac and calendar."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Watson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A printer mentioned by Henry Davis as the only printer flogged at the cart’s tail in the previous thirty years."
    },
    {
      "name": "C— S—",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person mentioned by Henry Davis as having been threatened by the House of L—; their identity is not given."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Bramble’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman mentioned by Henry Davis as the wife of a man who absconded to avoid a blasphemy prosecution; her name is not given."
    },
    {
      "name": "Griffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A neighbour of Matthew Bramble who offers a public submission and payment of costs after a dispute."
    },
    {
      "name": "Prig",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person Bramble directs to stop legal proceedings against Griffin."
    },
    {
      "name": "Morgan’s widow",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poor widow whose children Bramble quietly helps by giving her a cow and money for clothing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alderney",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A cow at Brambleton Hall; Tabitha asks whether its calf has been sold."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dicky",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An animal at Brambleton Hall who is due to be castrated by the cobbler."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cobbler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed worker at Brambleton Hall who is expected to castrate Dicky."
    },
    {
      "name": "The maids",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed female servants at Brambleton Hall, whom Tabitha instructs the housekeeper to supervise."
    },
    {
      "name": "The poor man",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed poor man to whom Matthew Bramble gives an old coat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Griffy Price",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of Jeremy Melford’s former Welsh college companions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gwyn",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of Jeremy Melford’s former Welsh college companions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mansel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A former college companion of Jeremy Melford who is said to have drowned his dog Ponto. Jeremy suspects he is behind a scandal involving Miss Blackerby."
    },
    {
      "name": "Basset",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of Jeremy Melford’s former Welsh college companions."
    },
    {
      "name": "The bedmaker",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed college bedmaker whom Jeremy asks Sir Watkin to greet."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cook",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed cook whom Jeremy asks Sir Watkin to greet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ponto",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Jeremy Melford’s dog, who is reportedly thrown into the flooded Isis by Mansel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jarvis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A carrier who transports letters between Lydia and Laetitia Willis."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sally",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Jarvis’s sister, whose position was nearly lost because of Lydia’s correspondence."
    },
    {
      "name": "The milliner",
      "aliases": [
        "the jade of a milliner"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed milliner who makes and dresses caps for boarding-school girls and helps convey letters between Lydia and Wilson."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Morley",
      "aliases": [
        "Morley"
      ],
      "description": "A man who warns Matthew Bramble that Jeremy may be about to fight Wilson and later arrives with constables."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mayor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed mayor of Gloucester, who intervenes in the threatened duel and releases Wilson after Jeremy agrees to keep the peace."
    },
    {
      "name": "The master of the company",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed manager of Wilson’s theatrical company, who vouches for Wilson’s character and acting ability."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr Rigge",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The physician who declares Lydia out of danger after her illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Higgins",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr Higgins"
      ],
      "description": "A notorious poacher on Bramble’s land who brings him hares as a present and is asked to stop setting snares in the paddock."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fitzowen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A county election candidate who asks Bramble to solicit votes despite having opposed him in an earlier election."
    },
    {
      "name": "The widow of an ensign",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman whose husband was an ensign; she lives on a small pension and supports her consumptive daughter through hard sewing work. Bramble gives her twenty pounds in charity."
    },
    {
      "name": "The widow’s daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "the poor emaciated child"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed girl, the consumptive daughter of the ensign’s widow, whose illness prompts Bramble’s charity."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr L—n",
      "aliases": [
        "the famous Doctor"
      ],
      "description": "A self-important physician at the Hot Well who lectures on smells and filth and claims to cure venereal disease. His attempt to remove a wart leaves his face badly swollen."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr B—",
      "aliases": [
        "the learned Dr B—"
      ],
      "description": "A physician cited by Dr L—n for a treatise on digestion."
    },
    {
      "name": "The last Grand Duke of Tuscany",
      "aliases": [
        "the Grand Duke of Tuscany"
      ],
      "description": "A deceased ruler of the Medici family, whom Dr L—n cites as having used an extract of ordure as perfume."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Blackerby",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman mentioned in Jeremy’s correspondence with Sir Watkin; a pregnancy scandal has been attached to Jeremy’s name, though he denies knowing her and suspects Mansel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Mac Manus",
      "aliases": [
        "my lady Mac Manus"
      ],
      "description": "A woman named as Sir Ulic Mackilligut’s partner for opening a ball in Bath."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Bullock",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An eminent cowkeeper from Tottenham who arrives in Bath to drink the waters for indigestion."
    },
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      "name": "The rival dogs",
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      "name": "The butcher’s dog",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed dog that attacks Chowder."
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      "aliases": [
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      "description": "Tabitha’s kitten, whom she asks Mary Jones and Saul to take into their bed during cold weather."
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      "name": "The poor consumptive patients",
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      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two unnamed associates of Henry Davis who advised him about religious works; one has gone abroad as a man-of-war carpenter, and the other absconded to avoid a blasphemy prosecution."
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      "description": "A clergyman and former college companion of Jeremy Melford who secures a church living from George Prankley by standing firm in a staged duel."
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      "description": "A wealthy heir and former college companion of Tom Eastgate who promises him a church living, then tries to renege after gaining influence. Eastgate’s resolve in a threatened duel persuades him to honor the promise."
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      "description": "An unnamed former representative of London who is described as an enthusiastic patriot; he claims to have known very few thoroughly honest citizens."
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      "name": "Mrs Norton",
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      "description": "The landlady who lodges the Bramble family in Golden Square, London, described by Lydia as considerate and eager to make them comfortable."
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      "description": "An unnamed innkeeper who identifies the impoverished postilion as Humphry Clinker and recounts his workhouse upbringing and misfortunes."
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      "description": "An unnamed valet hired temporarily in London, whom Jeremy intends to take into his own service."
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      "description": "A former school companion of Lydia Melford and Laetitia Willis whose departure Lydia regrets."
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      "description": "An Italian singer Lydia hears at Ranelagh in London, whose unusual, beautiful voice impresses her."
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      "description": "An unnamed singer Lydia hears at Vauxhall; Lydia finds her voice exceptionally loud and shrill."
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