Minor Characters
Quebec
Quebec is Mr. Bagnet and Mrs. Bagnet’s daughter and goddaughter to George.
Malta
Malta is Mr. Bagnet and Mrs. Bagnet’s daughter and goddaughter to George.
Woolwich
Woolwich is Mr. Bagnet and Mrs. Bagnet’s eldest son and godson to George.
Mr. Kenge
Mr. Kenge is a lawyer and a partner in the law firm Kenge and Carboy’s. He is legally involved in Esther’s upbringing with Miss Barbary but does not know that Lady Dedlock is Esther’s mother. He is a very talkative man and is known as “conversation Kenge.”
Bob Stables
Bob Stables is an aged, aristocratic cousin of Sir Leicester Dedlock’s.
Mrs. Piper
Mrs. Piper is a poor woman who lives near Krook’s shop and is a friend of Mrs. Perkins’s.
Mrs. Perkins
Mrs. Perkins is a poor woman who lives near Krook’s shop and is a friend of Mrs. Piper’s.
Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor is the high judge of the court of Chancery.
Watt
Watt is the grandson of Mrs. Rouncewell and the son of Mr. Rouncewell. He becomes engaged to Rosa, Lady Dedlock’s maid.
Neckett
Neckett is a debt collector who is sent to Mr. Jarndyce’s house to arrest Mr. Skimpole for debt. Neckett lives in Mrs. Blinder’s house with his three children, Charley, Emma, and Tom. Their mother is dead and when Neckett dies, these children are left orphaned.
Emma
Emma is the daughter of Neckett and the younger sister of Charley and Tom.
Tom
Tom is the son of Neckett, the younger brother of Charley, and the older brother of Emma.
Mrs. Blinder
Mrs. Blinder is the landlady who keeps the house in which Neckett, Charley, Tom, Emma, Gridley, and, later, Miss Flite have lodgings.
Mr. Badger
Mr. Badger is a physician who takes on Richard Carstone for an apprenticeship at Mr. Jarndyce’s suggestion. Mr. Badger is married to Mrs. Badger, who has been married twice before to two very eminent men in their different professional spheres.
Mrs. Badger
Mrs. Badger is the wife of Mr. Badger and has been married twice before. She is very proud of her previous husbands, who are both dead, because both men were extremely dedicated to their professions and were famous in their fields.
Sir Morbury Dedlock
An ancestor of the Dedlock family. HIs wife, who had turned against the Dedlocks during the English Civil War, cursed him and all Dedlocks.
Mr. Grubble
The landlord of the village pub.