All On Chesil Beach characters Listed With Descriptions

All T characters Listed With Descriptions

ON CHESIL BEACH

by Ian McEwan

Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

QUICK EDITION (QE)

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
1	Edward	Mayhew	A young, naive 1960s history graduate from a rural, working-class background
	Florence	Ponting	A talented, reserved young violinist from an upper-middle-class background
	Ruth		Ponting's sister
	Gaius Julius	Caesar	Roman general and statesman
	Charlemagne		Holy Roman Emperor
	Frederick	II	King of Sicily
	Catherine	the Great	Empress of Russia
	Nelson		American rock duo formed by Matthew and Gunnar Nelson
	Napoleon	Bonaparte	French general and emperor
	Joseph	Stalin	Revolutionary and former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
	Johann Sebastian	Bach	German composer and musician
	Charles		Chubby and assertive cellist
	Harold	Macmillan	Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
	Hugh	Gaitskell	Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
	Joshua David	Wolson	United States District Judge
	Anthony	Crosland	Author and former Economic Secretary to the UK Treasury
	John F.	Kennedy	35th President of the United States
2	John	Mayall	Musician and songwriter
	Alexis	Korner	British musician and radio broadcaster
	Brian	Knight	Professor of economics at Brown University
	Jacqueline	du Pré	British cellist
	Ludwig van	Beethoven	German composer and pianist
	Robert	Schumann	German composer and pianist
	Johannes	Brahms	German composer
	Frank	Bridge	English composer and violist
	Béla	Bartók	Hungarian composer and pianist
	Benjamin	Britten	20th-century English composer
	Franz Joseph	Haydn	Classical-period composer
	Peter	Pears	English tenor
	John	Ogdon	English pianist and composer
	Shura	Cherkassky	Russian-American concert pianist
	Amadeus	Quartet	Musical quartet
	Charles	Rodway	Cellist
	Anna Magdalena	Bach	Singer, wife of Johann Sebastian Bach
	Norman	Cohn	British academic and historian
	Sir Robert	Carey	1st Earl of Monmouth, English nobleman
	Elizabeth	I	Queen of England and Ireland
	James	VI	King of England
	Lord	Chamberlain	Senior officer of the Royal Household
	Simon	Carter	Edward's school friend
	Violet	Ponting	Florence's mother
	Geoffrey	Ponting	Florence's father
	Adolf	Hitler	German dictator
	Lionel	Mayhew	Edward's father
	Anne		Edward's sister
	Harriet		Edward's sister
	Marjorie	Mayhew	Lionel's wife
	Simon		Edward's friend
3	Wolfgang Amadeus	Mozart	Classical-period composer
	Geoffrey	Chaucer	English poet and writer
	Greta		Florence's friend
	Hermione		Florence's friend
	Lucy		Florence's friend
	Harold	Mather	Third-year history student
	Nikita	Khrushchev	Former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
	Al	Read	British radio comedian and actor
	Tony	Hancock	English comedian and actor
4	Sébastien	Loeb	French rally and racing driver
	Epictetus		Greek Stoic philosopher
	Strabo		Ancient Greek geographer and historian
	James	Bond	Fictional British Secret Service agent
	Elizabeth	David	British writer and chef
	Iris	Murdoch	Irish-British novelist and philosopher
	Vladimir	Nabokov	Russian-American novelist and poet
	Angus	Wilson	English novelist
	Konrad	Schmid	Theologian
	Sonia		Viola player
	Chuck	Berry	American guitarist and singer-songwriter

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