Lavengro, the autobiographer, scholar and philologist (Lavengro=word-master); known among the road-faring folk as the Romany rye, or young squire turned gypsy.
Jasper Petulengro, a Romany kral or tribal chief, horse-dealer and blacksmith (petulengro=lord of the horseshoe). “The Gypsy.”
Fraser, a popish emissary or propagandist, known as the “man in black.” “The Priest.”
Tawno Chikno, the little one, so called on account of his immense size; the “Antinous of the dusky people;” a great horseman and Jasper’s brother-in-law.
Sylvester, another brother-in-law, an ill-conditioned fellow, “the Lazarus of the Romany tribe.”
Black or Blazing John Bosville (Anselo Herne), “the flaming tinman” a “half-in-half” itinerant tinker and bruiser.
Catchpole, the landlord of a small inn, two miles from the Dingle, and not far from Willenhall in Staffordshire.
Mr. Hunter, a radical, who wears a snuff-coloured coat and frequents the inn above named.
A postilion, whose headquarters are The Swan, Stafford.