The consummate politician, and a morally vacuous demagogue. In his late 50s. Married to Eleanor Agnes Paignton Vaine, the Duchess Ashbourne, whose own family is synonymous with Paridon’s firearms industry.

This is his second term as Chancellor.

In typical patriarchal fashion, he is endlessly proud of his son, James Robert, Jr., the Lord Maddly, and has veritably disowned Rosamund out of shame. He despises the Lord Corbridge for abetting his daughter’s noisome adventures. Her latest romp has broken what little patience he still possessed, and, with the next election only a year away, he has dispatched dozens of mercenaries and agents to bring her home.