Ladies & Gentlemen - Titled Characters in Christie's Poirot Novels

Titled Characters from Agatha Christie's Poirot Novels

Part of the charm of Christie is the nostalgia and period elements in which the novels are set and there's something extra exciting about the murder amongst the upper echelons of society. When it comes to the rich and famous or the wealthy titled gentry of the English counties in their sprawling country mansions - murder is never far away in the world of Agatha Christie providing some of the most popular characters in the archetypal 'country house' mysteries.

Below is the full list of all the titled characters from Christie’s Poirot novels consisting of:

2 countesses
4 ‘honourable’ mentions
9 ladies
4 lords
15 ‘sirs’
and 1 Duke

In terms of English peerage heirarchy, The Duke of merton is the highest ranking gentleman – I have not included royalty in the list below but if we were, these characters would be from ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ – the Princess Dragomieroff

Book	Character	Description
Appointment With Death	Lady Westholme	Member of Parliament
Appointment With Death	Sir Gabriel Steinbaum	A banker mentioned in the story
Appointment With Death	Sir Manders Stone	An archaeologise referred to in the story
Black Coffee	Sir Claud Amory	Inventor and victim
Curtain	Sir William Boyd Carrington	Governor of a province in India
Dead Man’s Folly	Sir George Stubbs	Current owner of Nasse House and married to Hattie
Dead Man’s Folly	Lady Hattie Stubbs	Wife of Sir George Stubbs
Death In The Clouds	Lady Cicely Horbury	Married to Lord Horbury and passenger on the plane where the murder was committed
Death In The Clouds	Honourable Venetia Kerr	Friend of the Horbury’s and passenger on the plane where the murder was committed
Death In The Clouds	Lord Horbury	Husband of Lady Cicely and friend of Venetia Kerr
Death On The Nile	Honourable Joanna Southward	Linnets friend and cousin of Tim Allerton
Elephants Can Remember	Honourable Julia Carstairs	Acquaintance of the Ravenscrofts
Five Little Pigs	Sir Montague Depleach	Counsel for the Defence at Caroline Crale’s trial
Lord Edgware Dies	Lord Edgware	Unpleasant wealthy man and victim. Married to Jane Wilkinson his estranged wife.
Lord Edgware Dies	The Duke of Merton	New love interest of Jane Wilkinson
Murder On The Orient Express	Countess Elena Andrenyi	Young wife of the Count and younger sister of
Sad Cypress	Sir Lewis Rycroft	Deceased, married to a committed patient and once in love with Laura Welman
Sad Cypress	Sir Edwin Bulmer	Counsel for the defence of Elinor Carlisle
Sad Cypress	Sir Samuel Attenbury	Counsel for the prosecution
The ABC Murders	Sir Carmichael Clarke	Chinese art collector and victim
The ABC Murders	Lady Charlotte Clarke	Sir Carmichael’s terminally ill wife
The Big Four	Countess Vera Rossakoff	Russian aristocrat
The Hollow	Sir Henry Angkatell	Owner of the Hollow
The Hollow	Lady Lucy Angkatell	Sir Henry’s wife and mistress of The Hollow
The Mystery Of The Blue Train	Honourable Lennox Tamplin	Rosalie Tamplin’s daughter
The Third Girl	Sir Roderick Horsfield	Uncle to Andrew and Norma’s Great Uncle
Three Act Tragedy	Sir Charles Cartwright	Famous stage actor and friend of Poirot
Three Act Tragedy	Lady Mary Lyttin-Gore	Egg’s mother and guest at Sir Charles’ party
Three Act Tragedy	Lord Eden	Guest at Bartholomew Strages’ party, attending with his wife
Three Act Tragedy	Lady Eden	Guest at Bartholomew Strages’ party, attending with her husband
Three Act Tragedy	Sir Jocelyn Campbell	Guest at Bartholomew Strages’ party, attending with his wife
Three Act Tragedy	Lady Campbell	Guest at Bartholomew Strages’ party, attending with her husband

Titled Characters in all Agatha Christie's works

Across her entire body of works written under the name Agatha Christie created over 2300 characters, of these 140 are titled as follows:

14 members of royalty
58 Sirs – (honours list)
50 Ladies
2 Dukes
18 Lords
2 ‘Grand Duchesses’
10 Honourable ladies

This makes roughly 6% of the population in the world of Agatha Christie nobility.

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