Pitt Crawley
Pitt, the older son of Sir Pitt, pompous and pious as an undertaker, is always reading sermons and saying prayers. He insists on manners. His father doesn't swear at Lady Crawley when his son is in the room. At Eton he has been called "Miss Crawley":
[then] At college his career was of course highly creditable. [he] never advanced any sentiment or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ought to have insured any man a success . . .
Pitt marries Lady Jane Sheepshanks, Lord Southdown's third daughter, and because of Rawdon's unfortunate marriage and Mrs. Bute's domineering, Pitt inherits from Miss Matilda Crawley. At his father's death, he inherits a seat in Parliament and Queen's Crawley. He grows up to his position, although too stingy to give away any money. He is kind to Rawdon and Rebecca. When they part, he takes over little Rawdon. Even though he is a stingy hypocrite, Pitt has some admirable traits.
Bute Crawley
Rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, brother to the baronet, Sir Pitt Crawley, Bute likes all sports, drinking, eating, and gambling. In debt, he hopes to inherit from Aunt Matilda. He has one son, James, and four ugly daughters.
Mrs. Bute Crawley
Sometimes Barbara, sometimes Martha, Mrs. Bute won't call on Sir Pitt's second wife because she is the daughter of an ironmonger. Mrs. Bute manages her husband and the rectory, and lets Bute dine out to save money. She spies on the relatives, hopes to undermine Becky.
When she nurses Aunt Matilda, she instills all possible prejudice against Rawdon and Becky. But she domineers and bores Aunt Matilda almost to death. The doctors have to intervene and get Aunt Matilda out of the house. Then Bute breaks his collar-bone and Mrs. Bute has to go home, and never gets another chance at the fortune.
She moves in on Sir Pitt as soon as he is unconscious, routs the hopeful Miss Horrocks. After the new Sir Pitt takes over, the Bute Crawleys come to Queen's Crawley for festivities.
