General Barnstaple

In the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, General Barnstaple is a guest at the fête at Gossington Hall, and is invited upstairs to meet Marina Gregg and her husand Jason Rudd. He came up the stairs while Heather Badcock was talking to Marina. According to Dolly Bantry, General Barnstaple is from Much Benham, and is "practically ga-ga now".