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Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies staff

Miss Ophelia Grimm

 

Headmistress

Aldous Grump

 

Miss Grimm’s husband

Mrs Louella Derby

 

Personal secretar headmistress

Miss Livinia Reedy

 

English teacher

Mr Josiah Plumpton

 

Science teacher

Howie (Mrs Howard)

 

Housemistress

Mr Cornelius Trout

 

Music teacher

Miss Benitha Wall

 

PE teacher

Miss Verity Tweedle

 

Art teacher

Mrs Doreen Smith

 

Cook

Charlie Weatherly (Mr Charles)

 

Gardener

Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale students

Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones

 

 

Millicent Jane McLoughlin-McTavish-McNoughton-McGill

 

Alice-Miranda’s best friend and room mate

Jacinta Headlington-Bear

 

Friend

Sloane Sykes

 

Friend

Caprice Radford

 

Friend of sorts

Constance Biggins, Mimi Theopolis, Anna, Ella, Mia, Paige

 

Friends

Sofia Ridout

 

Head Prefect

Fayle School for Boys staff and students

Professor Wallace Winterbottom

 

Headmaster

Mrs Deidre Winterbottom

 

Professor Winterbottom’s wife

Parsley

 

Professor Winterbottom’s West Highland terrier

Mr Harold Lipp

 

English and Drama teacher

Lucas Nixon

 

Alice-Miranda’s cousin

Septimus Sykes

 

Lucas’s best friend and brother of Sloane

George ‘Figgy’ Figworth

 

Student

Villagers

Myrtle Parker

 

Show Society President and village busybody

Reginald Parker

 

Myrtle’s husband

Newton

 

Myrtle’s garden gnome

Ambrosia Headlington-Bear

 

Jacinta’s mother

Silas Wiley

 

Mayor of Downsfordvale

Nancy Mereweather

 

Secretary to Mayor Wiley

Constable Derby

 

Local policeman, married to Louella Derby

Herman Munz

 

Owner of the local shop

Marta Munz

 

Herman’s wife

Evelyn Pepper

 

Racehorse trainer and manager

Indira Singh

 

Owner of the local curry house

Dr Davidson

 

Vet

Father Colin

 

Minister

Others

Bonaparte

 

Alice-Miranda’s pony

Chops

 

Millie’s pony

Roberta Dankworth

 

Dog breeder and owner of Nobel Kennels

Barry Dankworth

 

Owner of Haute Hound, married to Roberta

Citrine

 

One of Roberta’s six Afghan hounds, Chudleigh’s reigning champion

Farrah Fawcett

 

Roberta’s anxious poodle

Sapphire

 

One of Roberta’s hounds-in-training

Becca Finchley

 

Breeder of cavalier King Charles spaniels and toy poodles

Daniel Finchley

 

Becca’s son

Siggy

 

Becca’s last remaining cavalier King Charles spaniel and previous Chudleigh’s champion

Vera Bird

 

Becca Finchley’s neighbour

Major Alistair Foxley

 

Chairman of Chudleigh’s Dog Show

Declan O’Malley

 

Village lad

Damon O’Malley

 

Village lad and Declan’s younger brother

Darius Loveday

 

Host of Dog Days

Malorie Sugsworth

 

Chudleigh’s hound expert

Edith Parbury

 

Chudleigh’s judge

Fudge

 

Runaway cavoodle

Molly

 

Fudge’s mother

Kate

 

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