Dr Weissgarten

In the novel At Bertram's Hotel, Dr Weissgarten is a learned Hebrew scholar and acquaintance of Canon Pennyfather.

When Mrs McCrae and Archdeacon Simmons became worried about the non-appearance of Canon Pennyfather, Simmons decided to call Weissgarten. He believed Weissgarten must have been at the conference in Lucerne which the Canon was supposed to attend and thus he might know something about his whereabouts. Weissgarten confirmed that he was at the conference but that Pennyfather was absent. Weissgarten found that surprising as he had met Pennyfather at the Athenaeum Club a week earlier and there the Canon had told him he was going to the confernece.