James Crawley
Son of the Bute Crawleys, he gets thrown out of Aunt Matilda's through Pitt's duplicity, but later Pitt encourages him to pay court to one of Pitt's half sisters, and arranges for him to be rector following Bute.
Miss Matilda Crawley
Sir Pitt's unmarried half sister has inherited her mother's large fortune. She sends Rawdon, her favorite, to Cambridge, buys him a commission, and plans to make him her heir. She dislikes Pitt, the milksop pious brother. An old reprobate, Aunt Matilda eats and drinks too much. Her wealth and her health are of great importance to her eager relatives, who act loving to her and to each other when she visits. Thackeray describes her, "no lady of fashion in London who would desert her friends more complacently as soon as she was tired of their society, and though few tired of them sooner, yet as long as her engouement lasted her attachment was prodigious . . . "
Rawdon spoils his chances of inheriting by marrying Rebecca. Mrs. Bute domineers and bores the old lady. Eventually, through the sweetness of Lady Jane, Pitt's intended, and the diplomacy of Pitt himself, he inherits the bulk of Miss Crawley's wealth.
Miss Rosalind and Miss Violet Crawley
Half sisters to Pitt and Rawdon, these girls like Rebecca as governess, tolerate her as sister-in-law.
Firkin and Briggs
Two of Miss Crawley's maids, Firkin never likes Rebecca, but Briggs is taken in, loans Becky her money, is finally provided for by Lord Steyne. Briggs is one of the few admirable persons in the book.
The Countess Matilda Southdown
This "tall and awful missionary of the truth," is mother to Lady Jane Sheepshanks, who marries Pitt, and to Lady Emily Homblower, author of the Washerwoman of Finchley Common, a tract the countess forces on everyone.
