Sir John Marke
Gender: male
Age: 35
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 160 pounds
Hair: russet
Eyes: grey
Appearance: hawk-nosed (a bit like Wellington)
Personality: amiable if treated with the courtesy due his rank, resents encroaching mushrooms, punctilious in offering due respect to superiors, usually avuncular to agreeable younger females.
History: born into an old gentry family as the elder son and inherited the family's respectable estates; educated at Eton and Oxford but did not seek Honours degree; has served as a J.P. and major in the county militia, but chiefly devoted to his estates. M.P. for the county, a reliable supporter of the government on the backbenches who rarely speaks in the House.
Hobbies: prefers to walk or ride about the local countryside, or read in his well-stocked library; hunts with the local pack and plays cards and dice for society's sake but not a reckless gambler. Fences and practices pistol shooting. Follows the Fancy but does not box himself. Enjoys the company of young people and attends dances and other gatherings.
Likes: intelligent conversation and mild flirtation with persons of suitable rank
Dislikes: bores, social climbers, rakes and fortune hunters who seek to take advantage of respectable young women. He is said to have fought at least one duel with a rake who showed undue interest in a young lady of his acquaintance.
Love Interest(if any): None at the moment. Widowed when young after a brief childless marriage to Anne who died in childbirth. Tends to presume his nephew Robert (son of his younger brother William and William's wife Elizabeth) will be his heir.
Age: 35
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 160 pounds
Hair: russet
Eyes: grey
Appearance: hawk-nosed (a bit like Wellington)
Personality: amiable if treated with the courtesy due his rank, resents encroaching mushrooms, punctilious in offering due respect to superiors, usually avuncular to agreeable younger females.
History: born into an old gentry family as the elder son and inherited the family's respectable estates; educated at Eton and Oxford but did not seek Honours degree; has served as a J.P. and major in the county militia, but chiefly devoted to his estates. M.P. for the county, a reliable supporter of the government on the backbenches who rarely speaks in the House.
Hobbies: prefers to walk or ride about the local countryside, or read in his well-stocked library; hunts with the local pack and plays cards and dice for society's sake but not a reckless gambler. Fences and practices pistol shooting. Follows the Fancy but does not box himself. Enjoys the company of young people and attends dances and other gatherings.
Likes: intelligent conversation and mild flirtation with persons of suitable rank
Dislikes: bores, social climbers, rakes and fortune hunters who seek to take advantage of respectable young women. He is said to have fought at least one duel with a rake who showed undue interest in a young lady of his acquaintance.
Love Interest(if any): None at the moment. Widowed when young after a brief childless marriage to Anne who died in childbirth. Tends to presume his nephew Robert (son of his younger brother William and William's wife Elizabeth) will be his heir.