George Meldrum

The master of the house, Lord Meldrum is a respected member of the gentry, sitting in the House of Lords, in charge of the Union Jack Rubber Company and various other interests. In the 1890s he had married the only daughter of Lord and Lady Southwick and they had raised two children prior to his wife's death in 1924. In 1915 he had been conscripted as a Colonel into the British Army and had served in the Infantry on the Western Front. He has old-fashioned Victorian values, with a respectable title and position in society. His reputation nevertheless is threatened by his affair with Lady Agatha, the wife of Sir Ralph Shawcross, and Stokes is usually left to assist him in concealing it. He claims to love Agatha deeply, he's broken after breaking off. Despite considerable wealth, he poorly pays his workers, it is hinted that, once in Africa, he was employing a slave labor force.

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