Lingon, Reverend John

Mrs. Transom's brother; rector of Little Treby. "The rector of Little Treby had been a favourite in the neighbourhood since the beginning of the century ... He had always been called Jack Lingon, or Parson Jack—sometimes, in older and less serious days, even 'Cockfighting Jack '. He swore a little when the point of a joke seemed to demand it, and was fond of wearing a coloured bandana tied loosely over his cravat, together with large brown leather leggings; he spoke in a pithy familiar way that people could understand, and had none of that frigid mincingness called dignity, which some have thought a peculiar clerical disease." Although he had always been a Tory, family feeling makes him support his nephew, Harold Transome, when the latter comes out as a Radical candidate.

<em>Felix Holt, the Radical</em>

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