Minor Characters
Ned
Ned is Lady Marchmain’s older brother who was killed in World War I. During the novel, Lady Marchmain commissions Mr. Samgrass to compile a book about Ned’s life.
Wilcox
Wilcox is Lady Marchmain’s housekeeper at Brideshead.
Lunt
Lunt is Charles’s “scout,” or servant, at university.
Plender
Plender is Lord Marchmain’s Italian butler, who comes with him to Brideshead towards the end of the novel.
Effie
Effie is a dancer at Ma Mayfield’s, a gentleman’s club on the Old Hundredth in London. Charles and Sebastian visit this club to see Effie with Boy Mulcaster. Boy tells them that Effie is his girlfriend but, when they arrive, she doesn’t recognize or remember him.
Johnjohn
Johnjohn is the infant son of Charles and Celia, and the nephew of Boy Mulcaster.
Caroline
Caroline is the baby daughter of Charles and Celia, and the niece of Boy Mulcaster.
Brenda Champion
Brenda Champion is a wealthy socialite and Rex Mottram’s lover.
Beryl Muspratt
Beryl Muspratt marries Brideshead. She is a middle-class woman and, because Lord Marchmain considers her “common,” she and Brideshead are not left Brideshead Castle after his death—it is left to Julia instead.
Father Mackay
Father Mackay is a Catholic priest who attends on the Marchmain family. He is summoned to give Lord Marchmain the last rites on his deathbed.
Mgr. Bell
Mgr. Bell is a Catholic priest who lives in Oxford and whom Lady Marchmain wants Sebastian to live with during his second year.
Hardcastle
Hardcastle is a student at Oxford who often lends Sebastian his car.
Collins
Collins is a friend of Charles at university, with whom Charles spends his Easter vacation.
Robin
Robin in Celia’s second husband after Charles.
Hayter
Hayter is Mr. Ryder’s servant.
Mr. Kramm
Mr. Kramm is a con artist whom Celia and Charles meet on board the ship from America. He pretends to be a film director to come to a party in their cabin and is later arrested as the boat docks.
Father Mowbray
A priest who tries to convert Rex to Catholicism.
Father Phipps
A priest who visits Charles and Sebastian during their summer alone at Brideshead.