John Thacker Saxton, radical and managing editor of the Manchester Observer
Annabel Wheeler, a spirited girl
Mary Fildes, president of the Manchester Female Reform Society
Jemmy, an impoverished weaver from Oldham
Thousands of working-class people in and around Manchester, special constables, Yeomanry and regular army
Off-stage Correspondents
Sir Thomas Bertram, father of Edmund, Maria and Julia, and uncle to the Prices.
Lady Bertram, his wife, who is sister to Mrs. Price and Mrs. Norris
Lord Delingpole, peer of the realm, friend to William Gibson
Lady Delingpole, his wife, friend to Mary Crawford
Henry Hobhouse, under-secretary to Lord Sidmouth
William A’Court, His Majesty’s Envoy to the Kingdom of Naples
Mary (Sarah) Bellingham, widow of an assassin, mother of three boys
Other Historical Persons Mentioned
William Godwin, a philosopher and novelist, widower of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mr. Leigh Hunt, radical journalist
Lord George Byron, poet and celebrity sex-symbol
Lord Wellington, commander and victor at Waterloo
Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary
Lord Castlereagh, the Foreign Secretary
Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister
William Wilberforce, MP and moral reformer
Thomas Smith, George Mellor and William Thorpe, Luddites executed for murdering William Horsfall
The Marquess of Donegall, patron of Belfast
Princess Adelaide, later Queen to King William IV of England
Joseph Nadin, deputy constable of Manchester, who arrested Henry Hunt at Peterloo.
Francis Philips, Manchester Merchant very worried about an uprising
Mr. Longdill, a solicitor who represented Percy Bysshe Shelley in his custody battle for his children by his first wife. Shelley was given visiting rights to see his children, but there is no indication that he ever did.
Mr. Chiappa, landlord to the Shelleys at Bagni di Lucca
Allegra, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, who died at the age of five in a convent where Byron had placed her.
Clara and William, son and daughter of the Shelleys, who also died young.
Elena Adelaide, Shelley’s “Neapolitan ward,” whose parentage is unknown, who also died young.
