late Mr. Darcy

Also known as: my excellent father / my father / my late master · Family: Darcy · Role: deceased father · First appears: Chapter 16

Chapter 16

friends with Mr. Wickham 〈His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men that ever breathed, and the truest friend I ever had;〉
friends with Wickham's father 〈He was most highly esteemed by Mr. Darcy, a most intimate, confidential friend.〉
child: Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men that ever breathed〉
protégé: Mr. Wickham 〈Yes--the late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me the next presentation of the best living in his gift. He was my godfather, and excessively attached to me.〉

child: Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy’s father, five years before, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring.〉

child: Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈My excellent father died about five years ago;〉
protégé: George Wickham 〈My father supported him at school, and afterwards at Cambridge; most important assistance, as his own father, always poor from the extravagance of his wife, would have been unable to give him a gentleman’s education.〉

with Fitzwilliam Darcy (The passage describes the father-son relationship between the late Mr. Darcy and Fitzwilliam Darcy.) 〈he had assured her that respect for the father would always prevent his exposing the son.〉

protégé: George Wickham 〈the son of her late master’s steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.〉

Extracted from the original text of Pride and Prejudice. Made with Rho MD.