The foremost attorney in Silverbridge, senior member of the firm Walker and Winthrop, which attended to the local business of the Duke of Omnium and was much concerned with the Crawley trial.

Appears frequently in The Last Chronicle of Barset; and proposes Lord Silverbridge’s election to Parliament in The Duke’s Children

"He was a man between fifty and sixty years of age, with grey hair, rather short, and somewhat corpulent, but still gifted with that amount of personal comeliness which comfortable position and the respect of others will generally seem to give" - The Last Chronicle of Barset