Hugo Charnley

In the short story The Dead Harlequin, Hugo Charnley was a relative of Lord Charnley who inexlicably took his own life some fourteen years before the events in the story. Hugo was the next in line to inherit the title and the money, which he needed badly because of his debts. But it turned out that Lord Charnley's wife Alix had an unborn child who turned out to be a boy.

Hugo Charnley died the year before the events in the story.