At Haddon Hall

Earl of Burlington, Lord William Cavendish

Countess Burlington, Lady Blanche Cavendish

Children: Louisa, Spencer, Freddie, Edward

Countess of Carlisle, Lady Georgiana Howard

Rt Hon William Lascelles MP

Mrs Caroline Lascelles (Lady Caroline)

Domestics

Arthur Sedgewick - Butler

Miss Primm - the housekeeper

Miss Araminta Hastings - Governess to the children

Mrs Raggin - cook

Archibald Marshall - the Under-Butler

Miss Alice Wickham - Lady Louisa-May's maid and companion

Nancy Fludd - parlour maid

At Stancliffe Halt

Dowager Countess of Burlington, Lady Louisa Cavendish

Amhajit Kumar - her Bengali manservant

At Chatsworth House

Duke of Devonshire, Lord William Cavendish

Thurston - his disdainful butler

Lady Lucinda

Rowsley

Reverend Mr Leonard Ravage - vicar of St Peter's

Mrs Hopkins - his housekeeper

Mr Cuthbert Warren - the curate

Mr Purvis - Verger at St Peter's

Mr Porter - surgeon

Mr Joseph Brown - apothecary & country doctor

Mrs Jane Brown - midwife & social climber

Mrs Edna Carter - their lacrimose housekeeper

Constable Walter Burgess - the parish constable

Hart Hill House

Lady Jessica Harding

Jonathon Sebastian Doyle - her manservant

Ben Simmons - coachman

Beatrice - maid

Mrs Winifred Doyle - cook and housekeeper

Chesterfield

Mr Drummel - an enterprising entrepreneur

Mr Jaggard - of Jaggard & Jaggard, prominent solicitors

Mr Merdle - immensely rich merchant and investor

Mr Melmotte - businessman and philanthropist, father-in-law of Dr Black

Hon Mr Randolph Bridewell - Mayor of Chesterfield

Dr William Black - prominent county doctor

Mrs Emeline Black - (née Melmotte) his wife

Captain Robert Jellicoe - dashing officer of the Royal Marine Fusiliers

Mr Jacob Graspe - Manager of Harding & Lithgo, Lady J's financial manager

Other

Dr Stuart Cracknell - incumbent of Moor Hall

Mrs Pugg - a phlegmatic nurse

Mr Providence Buckley - a propitious benefactor

Miss Abigail Chesterton - a social adventuress

Signor Abello - an enigmatic intermediary