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Jenny Lee

Nurse Jennifer "Jenny" Lee (later Worth)

Played By: Jessica Raine (Series 1-3), Vanessa Redgrave (Series 3 Christmas Special)

Voiced By: Vanessa Redgrave (Series 1-Present)

• Brainy Brunette: A smart, willing-to-learn nurse and musician with brown hair. (The real Jennifer Worth became a music teacher and performer after retiring from nursing for good).
• Character Narrator: Her older self narrates the show in the present day, even after her departure.
• Fish out of Water: Jenny, who comes from a middle-class background, is thrown completely out of sorts when she first arrives in poverty-stricken Poplar, leading to this exchange with Sister Julienne:
  Jenny: I didn't know people lived like this!
  Sister Julienne: But they do.
• Happily Married: She marries Philip Worth sometime after the end of series three (with their lingering glances on each other being a clear Foreshadow of this) and they wind up in a loving marriage. The Christmas Special shows that they grew old together and he was the one who encouraged her to write a memoir of her time as a midwife.
• Head-Turning Beauty: The very first scene of the series is her getting stares and Wolf Whistles by a crowd of dockworkers while on her way to Nonnatus House. She also gets a lot of male attention during the rest of her screen time.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers this when her boyfriend, Alec, dies after a workplace-related accident. She's so devastated that Sister Julienne forces her to take a leave of absence in order to properly grieve and learn to "be alive again".
• The Mistress: She had an affair with a married man that ended before she arrived at Nonnatus House. (In real life, the actual Jennifer Worth was 16 when she had a year-long affair with an older married man before it ended.) The man calls her several times, wanting to re-start the relationship, and Jenny has to fight her old feelings to do the right thing and walk away for good.
• Put on a Bus: Jenny chooses to leave midwifery at the end of series three in order to go into hospital care. However, mature Jenny still provides the narration for each episode.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She starts the series heartbroken over a failed affair with a married man. She plays around with the idea of dating her childhood friend Jimmy, but ultimately rejects him when realizing she doesn't love him. She then enters a happy relationship with an architect named Alec, only for him to tragically die later on in an accident. She ends up Happily Married to Philip, an artist and relative of one of her patients.
• Uptown Girl: While not necessarily rich, she came from a comfortable and fairly sheltered upbringing before arriving in poverty-stricken Poplar. Certain things that shock her (such as bug-infested homes, young girls working as prostitutes and babies born with body defects), completely unfaze the rest of those at Nonnatus House and some occasionally have to tell her to get over her shock.

Trixie Aylward

Senior Nurse Beatrix "Trixie" Aylward (née Franklin), Lady Aylward

Played By: Helen George (Series 1-Present)

• The Ace: While all the midwives are very good at their craft, Trixie stands out among them. She has, among other things, delivered a baby in a car, successfully corrected a uterine prolapse, and assisted in so many c-sections that she was able to perform one in poor light and with nothing more than local anaesthetic. Only Sister Julienne and Shelagh Turner surpass her, and that's almost entirely down to the fact that they have many more years of experience.
• The Alcoholic: Trixie has always been a fan of the bottle, but it starts affecting her life and her work after she and Tom break off their engagement during series four. She eventually quits drinking and joins Alcoholics Anonymous in order to stay sober. She falls Off the Wagon in series seven after she ends things with Christopher, and takes time off work to focus on her recovery.
• Bridezilla: Becomes obsessive over her wedding in series four during her engagement to Tom. Later, after seeing him perform a memorial service for a stillborn child, she realizes that the wedding isn’t the important part, their relationship is. Averted when they end up calling it quits.
• Dad the Veteran: Trixie’s father served in Mesopotamia during World War I. His PTSD left her with severe childhood trauma as she was forced to care for him starting at six years old and helped get him through his breakdown episodes. She recalls an early childhood memory of hearing him scream in his sleep late at night as he had a war flashback. This experience comes in handy during one midwife case as the woman's husband (who also served in the war) begins having a PTSD-related breakdown and she knows how to calm him.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: An absolute sweetheart, and a stunning blonde.
• Hospital Hottie: She works as a nurse and In-Universe she often receives a Head-Turning Beauty reaction. When trying to settle an excited crowd, she threatens that anyone who doesn't calm down will be personally punished by her. One man's response? "Is that a threat or a promise?"
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Has this reaction after the ATV presenter and judge of the baby contest for Poplar tries to rape her. She later becomes an alcoholic when her drinking habits become a daily and routine thing.
• Knight Fever: She becomes Lady Aylward when she marries hereditary baronet Sir Matthew Aylward.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The usually bubbly nurse's composure breaks when she's so distressed about an expectant father's PTSD that she angrily snaps at Chummy's suggesting they make drinks to relax. Trixie, who is known for bringing out alcohol for every and any occasion, becomes genuinely furious at a suggestion she'd normally be fond of. It's one of the few times we see her get angry at a fellow nurse.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Called "Trixie" by everyone instead of "Beatrix".
• Recovered Addict: A realistic presentation of this trope. After coming to terms with her alcoholism, she attends AA meetings in all the following series.
• Romancing The Widower: She first meets her future husband, Matthew Aylward — then happily married to his wife Fiona — when she attends the delivery of his son while seconded to the private Lady Emily Hospital. Sadly, Fiona died shortly thereafter of leukaemia, and Matthew first turned to Trixie as a friend and confidante as he struggled to deal with both his profound grief and with raising a baby on his own. It isn't until over a year later that they realise their feelings for each other have deepened and he begins courting her properly.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Despite being characterized as boy-crazy, she likes honest, kind, decent, hardworking men. She was engaged to Tom, a vicar, and entered a relationship with Christopher, a good-natured dentist with a young daughter. Her eventual husband Matthew Aylward is also an extremely decent and well-meaning man, though sometimes Innocently Insensitive thanks to his upper-class background.
• Stepford Smiler: She helped her shell-shocked father cope with her bubbly personality, acting like "Shirley Temple" as she put it, but she herself wasn't always as happy as she appeared.
• Smoking Is Glamorous: Trixie makes an unattractive habit look very sophisticated, especially when she's teaching Barbara how to smoke.
• Unexpected Virgin: When Christopher makes it clear his plans for the ski trip with Trixie were of an intimate nature, Trixie reveals to Valerie she's "never been that sort of girl in [her] whole life." We see her genuinely nervous and anxious at the possibility of being intimate with a man.^note While she is implied several seasons later to have... anticipated her vows with Matthew, they seem to have been at a much more serious stage of their relationship at that point.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Hates fish due to a childhood trauma that involved her brother dropping her into a pond when very young. This proves to be a problem when she goes to deliver a fishmonger’s wife’s baby. Fortunately, the mother-to-be understands.
  "I feel the same way about chickens."

Chummy Noakes

Nurse Camilla "Chummy" Noakes, née Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne

Played By: Miranda Hart (Series 1-4)

• Black Sheep: Chummy’s parents and siblings are proud members of the British aristocracy. Chummy is a midwife and missionary who is married to a police constable. Her mother takes a long time to accept her daughter's lower-class style and Chummy is very insecure about her mother's blatant disapproval of her life. But, she does learn to defend the life she has happily chosen and stands up to her.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Chummy is so awkward around Peter at first that it takes Sister Evangelina becoming sick of their dead-end flirting to arrange their first date.
  "It's times like this I'm glad I took vows."
• Commuting on a Bus: Chummy first leaves Nonnatus during series two for missionary service in Africa, then comes back for the birth of her and Peter's first child. She later moves with Peter and their son to Aston Lodge Mother and Baby Home to become the temporary matron after the 2014 Christmas Special, and hasn’t been seen in the series since. At one point, Peter mentions how she has started taking night classes and is enjoying them immensely. The writers have tried to bring Miranda Hart back for cameos in series 5 and 6, but were unable to do so due to her filming commitments.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She's clumsy due to her height, and you can't really blame her. She also struggles with learning how to ride a bike to get around Poplar.
• Genius Ditz: Comes off as a bit of a bumbler at times, but she's extremely talented as a midwife and as a seamstress. She even designs costumes for community children's plays.
• Happily Married: Despite her mother's snobby attitude, she and Peter are very much happy together.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: There are only two people who consistantly called her by her birthname "Camilla": her mother, and her husband. To everyone else, she is just "Chummy".
• Overly Long Name: Her maiden surname, Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne. It’s posh enough it could hold its own seat in the House of Lords.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Is at least six inches taller than her husband, Peter Noakes. At one point, the midwives and their respective beaus all go out to a local dance hall, where Noakes attempts to spin Chummy on the dance floor. Given that she's a good six inches taller than he, it's no small feat.

Shelagh Turner

Nursing Sister Shelagh Turner (née Mannion), formerly Sister Bernadette

Played By: Laura Main

• Age-Gap Romance: With Dr. Turner, who's at least a good decade older than she is. (In real life, the actors share an 18 year age gap.) However, their age difference doesn't serve as an issue as much as her being a Nun does (which is averted when she leaves). Most people don't pay any attention to their age difference, save for one teenage patient who makes a comment while observing them:
  "He's years older than her. Gives me the creeps."
• Badass Bookworm: She's adorable - and extremely smart and proficient. Dr. Turner even notes that "...[she was] always the most accomplished midwife at Nonnatus House," and he isn't kidding. Even before he was aware he'd fallen in love with her, she was the midwife he most trusted and relied upon during difficult deliveries. And it's mentioned how she greatly runs things at Nonnatus House and how the Sisters are grateful for it. After getting married, she briefly works as Dr. Turner's secretary and he remarks how her talents are being wasted. She responds that his office would go into chaos without her and when she goes on maternity leave, that's exactly what happens. They hire a secretary so she can meet her full potential as a nurse and midwife again.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: She sings with a clear, beautiful soprano, and before she left the Order, she was the soloist for the nuns' plainsong. Sister Julienne even mentions how she has yet to meet someone who can match Shelagh's vocal beauty. Years into their marriage, Patrick recounts a particularly rough night he once had, and how, when he followed the sound of the choir to the chapel and stayed to listen outside the door, her voice that night "touched [his] soul".
  Patrick: It was like everyone else's [voice] melted away and it was just you.
• The Confidante: Particularly in the wake of Sister Evangelina's death, she has become the primary confidante to Sister Julienne, who turns to Shelagh for advice and solace when she is troubled. Julienne is something of a Parental Substitute to Shelagh, no doubt, but they are also true friends.
• Crisis of Faith: After realizing she longs for the life of a normal woman and also fallen for Dr. Turner, she makes the difficult choice to leave the Order. Her crisis is not so much her faith in God being questioned as much as the fact that she wants to express that faith in a different manner than that of a Nun.
• Determinator: Whether it's a task as a midwife or nurse, the local choir, or her children's theatre activities that require costume designs, she will get it done if it's still arguably possible. During an outbreak, she goes full detective to narrow down the source of the disease and actually succeeds. Even Patrick is impressed by her skill once she accomplishes this.
• Friendship as Courtship: She and Patrick fall in love while she is still in the Order, but can't even admit their feelings to each other, let alone act on them. When she finally does decide to leave the Order to be with him, however, they more or less admit their feelings and confirm that they want to get married in almost the same breath (though the formal proposal comes a bit later on).
  Shelagh: I know you so little, but I couldn't be more certain.
  Patrick: I am completely certain. And I don't even know your name!
• Given Name Reveal: Originally, she's only known as Sister Bernadette. Her actual given name is Shelagh. She reveals it to Dr. Turner when they meet on the road when she leaves the sanitarium and he asks for her name.
• Good Parents: Also combined with Good Stepmother. She and Patrick are loving and attentive parents to their children. In addition to being a good mother to her "miracle" baby, Teddy, she is an excellent stepmother to Timothy (also having some minor smothering moments with him) and a loving mother to her adopted/foster daughters despite not biologically being their mother. She still very much considers them her own children and says naturally having them wouldn't make her love them any more than she already does.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a lovely blonde and a truly goodhearted character, with a sweet spirit who always wants to help everyone and anyone she can.
• Happily Married: She marries Patrick in series 3 after a very brief courtship and they are happy together. Even years down the road into the marriage, they are still very loving with each other and always work through their problems.
• Honorary Aunt: She's "Auntie Shelagh" to little Colette Corrigan, who is just a bit older than her daughter Angela.
• Housewife: Was this for a bit after getting married before realizing she needs something more creative to do with her time. She eventually returns to nursing and midwifery again due to growing restless with her spare time. However, she still schedules work around her life as a mother and wife and puts her family first.
• Intergenerational Friendship: She is the closest of friends with Sister Julienne despite their sizable age difference; they turn to each other for comfort, solace, and support and trust each other completely.
• It's Personal: Shelagh is a cool, competent medical professional in the face of every crisis imaginable — except the ones where her own children are in genuine danger, where she tends to go to pieces. Fortunately, her husband knows how to calm her down.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: After getting married to Dr Turner, Shelagh desires to have a baby as soon as she can. After dealing with an irregular period and being examined, she learns tragic news. It's revealed that her previous tuberculosis affected her reproductive organs and pregnancy is likely not possible for her, leaving her devastated. She finally gets pregnant in series six, ironically after giving up hope for her own children, and is overjoyed at the "miracle". Despite suffering pregnancy complications due to her scarred organs, she gives birth to a healthy son in the series 6 finale.
• Mama Bear: Even before she marries Dr. Turner, her response when Tim is diagnosed with polio is to protect him as much as possible. Also applies to her other children as well when they come along for her as well.
• My Biological Clock Is Ticking: One of the core reasons she left the Order was because she felt a strong desire to be a mother and start a family. After marriage, she and Patrick begin trying for a child and Shelagh even begins making a baby's nightgown due to excitement in becoming a mother. However, after going to a doctor, she learns of her infertility. Upon this news, she's absolutely devastated that there's "no hope" for her own child. During her adoption of Angela, she commented that meeting the infant for the first time is "the closest [she's] going to get to giving birth". Of course, in season 6, upon realizing she beat the odds and is pregnant, she's utterly thrilled at achieving her original dream.
• Proper Lady: Shelagh stands out as an archetypal example: she's modest and petite with a Silk Hiding Steel demeanor and a gentle, fair-skinned blonde who, after leaving the convent, becomes a devoted wife and mother.
• Quitting to Get Married: Subverted. Shelagh initially does quit her job to be a stay-at-home mother (entirely by her own choice), but finds herself missing nursing terribly. Within eighteen months, she's back at it (albeit with some alterations to accommodate her family life) as a nurse. Patrick is neither surprised nor sorry about this, and it's implied that he rather saw it coming even before she did.
• Second Love: To Dr. Turner as his second wife. His first wife was Timothy's mother, who according to Word of God, died in 1957 some months before the series.

Jane Sutton

Auxiliary Nurse Jane Sutton

Played By: Dorothy Atkinson (Series 2)

• Abusive Parents: Jane's mother left her perfectly healthy daughter in an asylum as a child, giving her a lot of insecurity issues later in life.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears without mention after series 2.
• Composite Character: The real Jane does not appear in the original Call the Midwife novels, but in another book of Jennifer Worth’s, Shadows of the Workhouse. Both Janes were abandoned by their parents as children (Call the Midwife’s Jane in an asylum, Shadows of the Workhouse’s Jane in a workhouse) and both grew confident after finding love with the Reverend Appleby-Thornton.
• Demoted to Extra: Jane worries aloud that Chummy’s return will cause the other girls to realize she was only there to “fill a gap” and abandon her, but everyone reassures her she’s part of Nonnatus now. And then the trope happens.
• Shrinking Violet: Starts off as a shy woman, but grows in confidence throughout her time as Nonnatus. This culminates when she runs onstage to announce Sister Monica Joan the replacement judge for the baby contest, and encouraging Fred to face his fear of heights and get Sister Monica Joan out of a locked bathroom.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Jane is never seen or mentioned again after series two. A deleted scene from that year's Christmas special revealed what happened to her: she went to nursing school.

Patsy Mount

Nurse Patience "Patsy" Mount

Played By: Emerald Fennell (Series 2-6)

• Armored Closet Gay: She starts off like this, hiding her sexuality and her relationship with Delia because she is terrified of the consequences if they are found out. The door is becoming looser through Delia’s influence, and Patsy passionately kisses Delia in semi-public when they reunite at the end of the series six finale.
• But Not Too Gay: Patsy and Delia are rarely seen doing anything other than briefly touching and holding hands, with a few cuddles and interrupted kisses thrown in. They finally get a proper kiss during the series six finale.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Very feminine, often sporting colorful dresses when out of uniform and is rarely seen without red lipstick.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Introduces herself as Patience, but everyone calls her Patsy or Pats.
• Put on a Bus: Leaves Nonnatus at the start of series six to care for her father, who is dying in Hong Kong. She came back at the end of the series six finale, but left again in the 2017 Christmas Special. The first episode of the series seven revealed that she had gone traveling with Delia, and the 2018 Christmas Special reveals she and Delia have settled in Scotland with their puppy, Garbo.
• Sexual Euphemism: When Trixie asks where Patsy had been one evening, she replied that she was in Delia's room, and the latter was "teaching [her] a new card game."
• Sole Survivor: Patsy, along with her mother and sister, was put into a Japanese internment camp after the invasion of Singapore. Only Patsy survived the ordeal.

Barbara Hereward

Nurse Barbara Hereward (née Gilbert)

Played By: Charlotte Ritchie (Series 4-7)

• Back for the Dead: After leaving in season six, she and Tom return for three episodes in season seven just so she can contract and die of septicaemia.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: On Barbara's first night at Nonnatus she gets absolutely smashed where Trixie and Patsy don't even get tipsy.

• Kill the Cutie: She's adorable, and her death leaves her heartbroken True Companions behind.
• Nice Girl: Very kind and compassionate, with a sweet disposition.
• Put on a Bus: She temporarily relocates to Birmingham with Tom in the series 7 Christmas Episode.

Phyllis Crane

Nursing Sister Phyllis Crane

Played By: Linda Bassett (Series 4-Present)

• Apron Matron: Takes over this role at Nonnatus House when Sister Evangelina dies, being rather gruff and focused on her work at first. Off-duty, though, she's more of a Cool Aunt to the younger nurses, all of whom she cares about deeply (especially Barbara).
• Bastard Angst: Inverted. Phyllis reveals to a young expectant father that she was born out of wedlock but never allowed it to stop her from achieving and making something of herself. She makes use of this in the 2019 Christmas special to give a pep-talk to a teenage girl struggling with some Bastard Angst of her own.
• Battleaxe Nurse: Butts heads with Sister Evangelina from the first day, but Subverted: brusque as she is when work is concerned, she's extremely caring to her patients and soon unwinds around her colleagues - but woe betide anyone who interferes with her duties.

• Heroic BSoD: Has a brief one when she hits and injures a child with her car. For maximum irony, she hit the kid because she was distracted by chiding Sister Winifred over her bad driving, which just makes things worse. When told to provide a urine sample by police to see if she was drinking, she takes the private moment to sob to herself. Despite being cleared of any wrongdoing when the boy's brothers confirm he ran into the road without looking, she still feels awful.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Very caught up with procedure and can come across as rude. However, Sister Evangelina's suspicions of her being an unfeeling nurse and midwife are revealed to be false when she's seen comforting Barbara over the delivery of a stillborn baby and giving a cup of tea to the baby's devastated father.

• Old Maid: Has never been married, and unabashedly describes herself as a spinster.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: With Sergeant Woolfe, a windbag traffic officer. Phyllis considers him a nuisance, and her repeated insistence that she is a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists is usually directed at him.
• Soapbox Sadie: She is both a vegetarian and a teetotaler, and will mention such with minimum prompting.
• Team Mom: She unreservedly mothers all the young nurses at Nonnatus and takes a leadership role among them.
• Working-Class Hero: Comes from a poorer background than the other nurses and mentions at one point how her mother single-handedly worked to provide for her.

Delia Busby

Nurse and Trainee Midwife Delia Busby

Played By: Kate Lamb (Series 4-6)

• Affectionate Nickname: "Cariad", it means "darling" or "sweetheart" in Welsh.
• Amnesiac Lover: Loses her memory of Patsy after being run down with a car, she soon recovers gladly.

• But Not Too Gay: Patsy and Delia are rarely seen doing anything other than briefly touching and holding hands, with a few cuddles and interrupted almost-kisses thrown in. They finally get a proper kiss during the series 6 finale.
• My Beloved Smother: Delia's mother has to be reminded that Delia is a fully grown woman who can make her own decisions, not her.
• Open-Minded Parent: Delia's mother is an inversion of this. While Delia stresses that her mother doesn't know about her and Patsy she appears to have a certain dislike of Patsy for no particular reason and isn't comfortable with her daughter being in London on her own.
• Put on a Bus: She and Patsy are missing from the 2017 Christmas Special. The first episode of the seventh series reveals that they're on holiday in Africa, and the 2018 Christmas Special she and Patsy send Nonnatus House a Christmas card from Scotland.

Valerie Dyer

Nurse Valerie Dyer

Played By: Jennifer Kirby (Series 6-9)

• All of the Other Reindeer: During her Army service, she was treated with disdain by the other nurses for being from Poplar and faced discrimination and career sabotage. She eventually left because she couldn't deal with the persecution anymore.

• Beware the Nice Ones: She's nice, but illegal abortions make her go berserk. After having to tend to a woman who had a back alley abortion, and the string of them that followed, any mention of them sparks a short temper in Valerie as she's seen the brutality of them. Made all the worse when she finds out who has been performing them.
• Big Damn Heroes: This is more or less how she's introduced, joining a stunned Shelagh in the middle of a dock explosion and summarising her qualifications before jumping into the fray to help.
  Valerie: Valerie Dyer. I'm a nurse — Queen Alexandra's, Army Corps. Tell me what you need.
• Brainy Brunette: She has brown hair and is one of the most skilled midwives Nonnatus has. She remembers everything from her Army nursing days, despite being years out of practice — and only the best of the best of UK nurses are accepted into the QARANC^note Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps in the first place.
• Jumped at the Call: When Nonnatus House desperately needs a new midwife, she eagerly shows up, ready to work. Before, she had been working at her aunt's bar.
• Nerves of Steel: Valerie has a steel spine and is impossible to rattle in a crisis. Part of it seems to be her natural temperament, but her time in the Army certainly helped.
• Put on a Bus: Leaves Nonnatus house between the end of Season 9 and the 2020 Christmas Special. In the Special, Sister Julienne reveals that Valerie came to her in distress after her Grandmother's death and attempted to hand in her resignation, and after Sister Julienne refused to accept it, she agreed to go work at the Hope Clinic in South Africa (from the 2016 Christmas Special).
• Working-Class Hero: A working-class nurse in a cast of upper and middle-class people (only Phyllis is from the same background during her time on the show).^note Sister Evangelina was also working-class, but she died before Valerie returned to nursing. She was an Army nurse who left the QARANC after becoming frustrated with the prioritization of efficiency over caring. Valerie later mentions to Lucille that the other nurses from more upper-class backgrounds believed that nurses from Valerie's lower-class background, the East End, shouldn't be nurses and one of the sisters even bullied her.

Lucille Robinson

Nurse Lucille Robinson (née Anderson)

Played by: Leonie Elliott (Series 7-12)

• All Women Are Prudes: Lucille doesn't appear to agree with Valerie's sexual health classes that teach teenage girls about pregnancy and menstruation, believing it to be improper. She is noticeably uncomfortable when she suggests tampons the girls (implied due to tampons being vaginally inserted), pushing for them to use pads instead. When Trixie gently calls out her out on her attitude, Lucille reminds her how she said she isn't comfortable with the subject. She moves past this particular holdup later on, but remains fairly conservative as far as appearance and behavior go.
• Brainy Brunette: Dark hair, bookish, levelheaded, and has an excellent memory. According to Valerie, she passed all her exams at nursing school with flying colors.
• Cute Bookworm: She's very sweet-natured and worked as a librarian before training as a nurse. She bonds with Sister Monica Joan because of their mutual love of literature.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: When a woman suffers a stroke uncharacteristic for someone her age, the mother points the finger at Lucille, saying it would never have happened had her daughter been tended to by an English midwife.
• Good Parents: She has a good relationship with her mother (who's still in Jamaica) and misses her immensely. They write to each other frequently.
• There's No Place Like Home: A major part of her storyline is her trying to adjust to life in England while hanging on to her roots.
• Token Minority: Hailing from the West Indies, Lucille is the first permanent black nurse at Nonnatus House.

Nancy Corrigan

Nurse Ann "Nancy" Corrigan

Played by: Megan Cusack (Series 10-Present)

• Brutal Honesty: She's working on balancing honesty and tact.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: The nuns at her own orphanage arranged for Colette to be put in another orphanage, and for Nancy to be able to visit, under the guise that the two were sisters. Colette is school-aged at the time Nancy starts in Poplar, so this ruse has been going on for quite awhile. Nancy is eventually able to tell Colette the truth, which she takes remarkably well.
• Forgetful Jones: Part of her character arc in seasons 10/11 is becoming more responsible and gaining more self-discipline in terms of time management, attention, and responsibilities as a midwife.
• Odd Friendship: On the surface, bubbly, brutally honest Nancy is an unlikely friend for Trixie's rather staid, reserved barrister fiancé Matthew, but he finds himself turning to her for advice on wooing Trixie, and later asks her to secretly get hold of Trixie's ring size so he can propose. Somehow she also talks him into doing a rather sweet duet at a Poplar talent show, where he acquits himself quite well.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She's only referred to by her actual name of Ann a handful of times, mostly during her introduction to the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus; otherwise, she's always called Nancy. It got to the point that Miss Higgens, secretary extraordinaire, forgot this fact and had to be reminded of it by Nurse Crane when digging up Nancy's past.
• Playing Cyrano: She ends up the go-between in Trixie and Matthew's relationship, listening to Trixie vent about her frustrations and then telling Matthew what he needs to do to make her happy. It usually works, and culminates in Matthew asking Nancy to sneakily obtain Trixie's ring size so he can propose.
• Teen Pregnancy: Had her daughter Colette when she was just 16.

The Sisters of St. Raymond Nonnatus

Sister Julienne

Sister Julienne

Played By: Jenny Agutter (Series 1-Present)

• A Father to His Men: Or more of a Mother to Her Girls. She is not only the head of Nonnatus but provides warm, motherly kindness to anyone under her care (which, as far as she is concerned, is everyone associated with Nonnatus, full stop).
• Badass Bureaucrat: While fully qualified as a nurse and midwife, she has the self-described lightest load when it comes to the clinical aspect of work at Nonnatus House. Her work is primarily administrative; managing the convent's finances and such. That said, the few deliveries she is involved in prove her to be perhaps the best midwife Nonnatus House has, or tied with Shelagh for the distinction.^note While Trixie is also a superb midwife, the extra years of experience Sister Julienne and Shelagh have give them the edge.
• The Chains of Commanding: To most of Nonnatus, she is the unflappable Sister-in-Charge who leads with unquestioned authority, but as the show goes on it becomes clear that always having to be a source of strength for everyone else has taken its toll on her. After the death of Sister Evangelina, Shelagh Turner becomes the only person she can truly unburden herself to.
  Julienne: I have so often had to be the wise one.
• Given Name Reveal: In the series, she's referred to as Sister Julienne. Her pre-Order name is revealed as Louise in series 4.
• Good Shepherd: As the spiritual leader of Nonnatus, she personifies God Before Dogma and treats everyone in her charge — her Sisters, her staff, her patients, and the entirety of Poplar — with kindness, gentle counsel, and selfless compassion.
• The Heart: She is the heart and soul of Nonnatus and a touchstone for everyone associated with it.
  Phyllis: You're the heart and soul of this place.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Her closest friend and confidante is Shelagh Turner, despite an age gap best measured in decades between them. The two have tremendous love and respect for each other and the affection between them is palpable in every scene they share.
• Meaningful Name: Her religious name, Julienne, is a feminine form of 'Julian'. This alludes both to Saint Julian the Hospitaller and, more importantly, to Dame Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth-century Christian mystic (who, confusingly, was a woman) and author of Revelations of Divine Love, a personal favourite of Sister Julienne's and source of solace and guidance for her.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • The always calm and collected Julienne is thrown completely out of sorts when an old flame of hers makes contact to donate to the convent. She even removes her wimple out of distress, though she is alone in her room when she does.
  • Sister Julienne finds that a baby born without arms or legs has been left to die in the hospital sluice room, still breathing. She is unusually emotional and distraught as she prays over and comforts the child as it passes away. Her voice breaks when she realizes she ought to have baptized the baby but didn't think of it in the moment.
  • When Sister Julienne loses her composure over trying to erase Barbara's name from the call board. She breaks down crying.
  • When she's faced with the prospect of being elected Mother Superior of the Order, a job which she absolutely does not want but cannot refuse due to her vow of obedience. She finds herself turning to Shelagh for comfort and advice.
• Parental Substitute: Seems to be a substitute mother to Shelagh. At her wedding, Julienne was sitting in the aisle seat of the front left pew — the place traditionally reserved for the mother of the bride. And Shelagh even says that she should be the one giving her away and walking her down the aisle.
• Quickly-Demoted Leader: Sister Julienne is usurped by Sister Ursula as the sister-in-charge when the former is on a mission to South Africa, to the fury of everyone at Nonnatus. She is eventually reinstated.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She is the working head of Nonnatus and a beloved, well-respected member of the community. When conflict arises, she remains cool, calm, and collected — even if she disagrees.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Always armed with a kind word and a sweet smile. She isn't often crossed but when she is Sister Julienne makes it clear why she's the sister-in-charge.
• Stepford Smiler: Though not nearly to Trixie's extent, Julienne almost never truly loses her composure and always puts an optimistic spin on everything, even when the world seems to be crumbling down around her — she truly will smile even while her heart is breaking. Fortunately, she is able to unburden herself to Sister Evangelina and, after she leaves the Order, Shelagh Turner.
• Team Mom: She's very caring towards all the nurses and midwives at Nonnatus House, and does her best to make sure everything runs smoothly.
• The One That Got Away: In series four, it's revealed that she was the woman who the wealthy Charles Newgarden originally wanted to be with. She cared about him deeply, but couldn't resist the call to the religious life.

Sister Evangelina

Sister Evangelina

Played By: Pam Ferris (Series 1-5)

• Apron Matron: She's strict and no-nonsense with both her patients and the young nurses she supervises.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: When Sister Monica Joan becomes ill and refuses to take her medicine, Sister Evangelina can barely hold back the tears as she determines that Sister Monica Joan will get better all else be damned.
• Battleaxe Nurse: Good-hearted but not afraid to be firm with patients if it's needed.
• Deadpan Snarker: Contrasting with the prim and proper nurses from well to do families, Sister Evangelina comes from a working-class background and has an attitude similar to those of the people of Poplar.

• Good Old Ways: Very much a traditionalist when it comes to childbirth practices, not believing in such things as gas and air, birthing hospitals, and baby formula as opposed to breast milk. This sometimes comes back to bite her on the ass.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Brusque and often short with the midwives Sister Evangelina truly cares not only about the girls and the other nuns but the whole of Poplar, coming from a similar background.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has two serious ones. The first is when she accidentally swaps the babies of two sets of parents during a fire emergency, which has devastating consequences for the parents. The second is when a baby almost dies of dehydration because the mother, who cannot breastfeed, refuses to use formula at Sister Evangelina's insistence (since she's strongly against formula). The latter prompts her to leave Nonnatus temporarily to reconnect with her faith.
• Passed in Their Sleep: Tragically dies in the season five finale after a second stroke while she slept.
• Shipper on Deck: Helps to set up Chummy and Peter when the two of them have trouble doing so themselves. She gets tired of watching them go nowhere with dead-end flirting and finally asks Peter if he wants to take Chummy to the movies and asks Chummy if she'd like to go; they both agree.

Sister Monica Joan

Sister Monica Joan

Played By: Judy Parfitt (Series 1-Present)

• Afraid of Doctors: Sister Monica Joan doesn't put a lot of trust in modern medicine. Most of all, she shrinks at the idea of surgery. She eventually admits that it is because she dreads the day that a doctor will declare her mentally unfit and have her confined to the Mother House for the rest of her life. She's forced to face it in Season 7, when she undergoes surgery to prevent going blind.
• The Conscience: Despite her mental irregularities, she's usually the first to realize when something is wrong, and the most insistent to see it righted. Like when she realizes the hospital Sister Mary Cynthia was sent to is a Bedlam House.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Dreamy and often in another world. Also prone to quoting Keats.

• Large Ham: Tends to spout quotes from various works in a dramatic fashion. Often combines with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness if she's trying to win an argument or disguise her own guilt over some minor bit of mischief.
• Missing Mom: Despite being estranged from her earlier in life, Sister Monica Joan has said that she misses her mother. This is partially brought on by knowing that she herself is nearing the end of her life.
• Retired Badass: Downplayed. She is one of the first women in England to qualify as a midwife; even though she's now mostly removed to administrative duties, she's still quite active in Nonnatus House. Sister Julienne even states that taking care of her is a privilege.
• Riches to Rags: Voluntarily. She gave up a privileged life to live a life of poverty, sacrifice, and hard work as a nun and midwife.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Sister Monica Joan is aware of her state, suggested to be senile dementia, and knows that she isn't as "useful" to Nonnatus as she once was. Mother Jesu makes mention that Sister Monica Joan's mother was mentally unstable, imply she may have inherited it from her.
• Sticky Fingers: The series one finale deals with Sister Monica Joan's petty thefts, useless knickknacks like ribbons and eggcups, but the situation becomes serious when valuable jewellery is found in her bag. They turn out to be family heirlooms left to Sister Monica Joan by her mother.
• Sweet Tooth: If there are treats of any kind of Nonnatus House, chances are Sister Monica Joan will get her hands on them first. She has a particular fondness for cake.
• Troll: Sister Bernadette believes that some of Sister Monica Joan's eccentricities are caused less by her senility and more by wilful mischief.

Sister Bernadette

Sister Bernadette

Played By: Laura Main (Series 1-Present)

See Shelagh Turner

Sister Winifred

Sister Winifred

Played By: Victoria Yeates (Series 3-8)

• Deliberate Values Dissonance: In contrast to Sister Monica Joan's more accepting views on homosexuality and unmarried mothers, Sister Winifred's views are more conservative and in keeping with both the time and her position as a nun. Like all Nonnatuns she certainly tries not to allow it to affect the care she gives her patients, however.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Experiences one of these when her judgment towards a young, unmarried teacher engaging in an affair with a married man indirectly causes the woman to attempt to self-abort with dire consequences.
• Put on a Bus: When her attentive care of a disabled child helps his progress immensely, the newly elected Mother Superior Mildred sees this and chooses for Winifred to remain at the Mother House. Yeates asked to be written off of the show when she was told her character in the Fantastic Beasts franchise would have an expanded role going forward.

Sister Mary Cynthia, formerly Cynthia Miller

Sister Mary Cynthia

Played By: Bryony Hannah (Series 1-6)

• Beware the Quiet Ones: Often timid and quiet in nature, but when push comes to shove, Cynthia is not afraid to speak her mind. This is specifically shown when a diabetic patient verbally abuses his wife, causing Cynthia to tell him off.
• Brainy Brunette: She has light brown hair and, being a qualified nurse and midwife, is quite intelligent.
• Break the Cutie: She is violently attacked and beaten while out in town, which weighs heavily on her and prompts her exit from the series. She first returns to the Mother House to recover, and then to a special clinic picked out for her by Dr. Turner as her PTSD lingers.

• Despair Event Horizon: She falls into a deep, crippling depression after a patient's abusive husband's threats trigger memories of her own attack. She is unable to work or take care of herself, and is sent first to a mental asylum, and later to a specialized clinic.
• Hates Being Touched: After her attack, she cannot bear anyone touching her.
• Nice Girl: Unfailingly sweet and kind.
• Put on a Bus: Her entering a good mental hospital staffed by sympathetic therapists is the end of her storyline.
• Shower of Angst: A bath in her case. It's made worse in that she's too traumatized to even wash herself; Sister Monica Joan has to come in and help her as she breaks down in tears.
• The Quiet One: She's timid and barely speaks. More obvious when next to the more outgoing Trixie.
• Tranquil Fury: Shown very prominently after her attack. She states that she's not sad, but instead angry.
• Taking the Veil: Finds her vocation and becomes a nun.

Sister Ursula

Sister Ursula

Played By: Harriet Walter (Series 6)

• Alas, Poor Villain: Sister Ursula was the matron of the Order's cottage hospital when it closed. This is the reason for her almost manic insistence on reforming Nonnatus House. Timothy suggests at one point that the hospital may have closed because of her.
• Hated by All: Universally disliked among the other midwives and more tellingly among the otherwise all-loving nuns.

• Inferiority Superiority Complex: She starts unilaterally making reforms to the House as though she knows its business better than those who have worked there for years. She eventually admits that she considers herself to have failed at her last placement, and to be hoping to redeem herself at Nonnatus.
• Jerkass: Truly seems to only care about efficiency rather than the actual needs of the patients and mothers. This insistence on efficiency causes Barbara's failure to notice a baby suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning due to only having 20 minutes with the family instead of the usual 40. When confronted about this after said-incident, Sister Ursula insists that 20 minutes is a reasonable amount of time for patient care. However, Nurse Crane remarks that's based on her experience in a qualified hospital with proper equipment; not a poorer and disadvantaged place like Poplar.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When her new policies nearly resulted in the death of an infant, she's quietly devastated; especially since she was warned that her policies weren't suitable for proper patient care.
• Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: Despite all her many, many unsavory characteristics, when a battered housewife and her son arrive at Nonnatus, she's kind to the boy and even offers him chocolate biscuits to ease his trauma.
• Stern Nun: Docks Patsy's wages for going the extra mile for a patient when she specifically told the nurses not to, even though it paid off for the woman. She also reduces the meal sizes at Nonnatus House and won't let nurses snack under her watch. This gives her extra Jerkass points because the nurses are on their feet working all day and need big, filling meals and snacks as fuel.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is only around for four episodes before she returns to the Mother House.

Sister Hilda

Sister Hilda

Played By: Fenella Woolgar (Series 8-11)

• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: She's a sunny, upbeat, gregarious sort, but while very well-liked, sometimes speaks before she thinks and accidentally says something tactless. She's always quick to apologise for it, though.

Sister Frances

Sister Frances

Played By: Ella Bruccoleri (Series 8-11)

• His Own Worst Enemy: Frances is a very capable nurse and midwife but she's only just taken the veil and began working in Poplar. What really hampers Frances however is her lack of confidence. During her first solo birth it's the mother (who is fortunately not a first-timer!) encouraging Sister Frances rather than the other way round.

Sister Veronica

Sister Veronica

Played By: Rebecca Gethings (Series 12-Present)

• Contrasting Replacement Character: Unlike the other nurses and nuns who joined Nonnatus House, Sister Veronica is introduced as a health visitor, and mostly handles district rounds, such as visiting families with young children to talk about vaccinations; she is a trained midwife, as all members of the Order are, but unlike previous nuns it's not her primary focus, and she only gets involved in deliveries when they come by surprise.

Other Medical Staff

Patrick Turner

Dr. Patrick Turner

Played By: Stephen McGann (Series 1-Present)

• Can't Spit It Out: Played with. He admits to having an inability to say what he's truly feeling, particularly personal feelings. This is first seen when he has a hard time admitting his romantic feelings for Shelagh upfront (averted when he sends her love letters, but even then admits to questioning whether he "said too much or not enough"). Played with again during his and Shelagh's adoption process and he avoids admitting his past in a mental hospital due to stress from war service; only admitting it when it's mentioned during their interview. He confesses to Shelagh how he has a hard time expressing his feelings and apologizes, admitting he needs to be more honest.
• Family Man: He was already a good single dad with Timothy. But, after he and Shelagh gain several more children, he shows what a true family man he is with his large family. Despite having a time-demanding job, he still very much loves his wife and children and is the best husband and father he can be. Whenever he can, he often supports and spends time with his children and Shelagh. During one midwife case, he comments on the unconventional way he gained his children and how, despite some chaos, his life works out nicely and he wouldn't change it.
• Friendship as Courtship: He knew he wanted to marry Shelagh before they ever officially courted due to falling in love with her while working alongside her. Though he formally proposes a bit later on, they admit their feelings and confirm that they want to get married in more or less the same breath.
• Geeky Turn-On: One of the reasons he falls in love with Shelagh is her skill as a nurse and midwife. And the first time he sees her in a nurse's uniform, he rather looks like he wants to take her back to bed that minute. Another time she wears the uniform before leaving for work, he comments an appreciative "Hello, Nurse!"
• Good Parents: He and Shelagh love their children immensely. Even before he married Shelagh, he tried to be available for Timothy (his child from his first marriage) as much as he could, despite being endlessly busy with his patients. He was sure to teach him responsibility and independence for whenever he was away. During his wedding to Shelagh, he also makes Timothy his best man.
• Happily Married: He has a loving and happy relationship with his wife Shelagh. He was also, by all accounts, very happy with his first wife before she passed away and still wore his ring long after her death.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Prior to the series, he suffered a mental break down due to being a doctor during the war and personally witnessing the graphic violence soldiers endured. He had to go to a mental hospital in order to cope with the trauma and brutality he saw in many war victims and soldiers. This proves to be a possible problem during his and Shelagh's attempt to adopt, but it all works out.
  • Goes through this again when he misdiagnoses an infant patient, resulting in the child being taken from his parents and briefly put into foster care. Even after he corrects the problem and realizes the child had a rare disease, he feels horrible for the pain the parents suffered. He has a brief mental break down and needs to take time off from work to emotionally heal and re-gain his confidence.
  • He feels miserable during the Thalidomide crisis when babies with deformed limbs start being born in Poplar. After he realizes it's due to Distaval/Thalidomide he prescribed expectant mothers without knowing its consequences, he feels guilt-ridden. He admits that not a day goes by when he doesn't think of the children who are still suffering from it.
• Hot for Preacher: Hot for a nun, and a younger one at that. He fell in love with Shelagh when she was still a nun by the name of Sister Bernadette. During this time, he impulsively made a move on her as he tended to a minor hand-wound she had. He quickly apologized, but still makes it clear that he's romantically interested in her. After she leaves for several months to recover from TB, he begins sending her what are essentially love letters. Once learning she left the Order, meaning they can be together, he all but immediately chases after her.
• Mr. Exposition: The programme's go-to character for an infodump about the malady or social ill exemplified by the Patient of the Week. He's not the only character who does this, but he usually is. It's only slightly jarring given his general nerdiness.
• Papa Bear: Very protective of his children, as well as child patients when deeming their safety threatened.
• Parent with New Paramour: He falls in love with Shelagh as a single dad, having lost his first wife to chronic illness (implied to be cancer) some months before the series. Fortunately, his son is a Shipper on Deck for them, even coming to call Shelagh "Mum" and (indirectly) being the one to ask her to marry his father.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a well-respected community figure who prioritizes common sense and decency while dealing with his patients' problems. He develops a fine reputation for himself as an excellent doctor and carries a small measure of weight around (which comes in handy at times). He's not overly strict with his own children either, but knows when to draw the line when necessary.
• Scare 'Em Straight: He was a regular smoker until season 5. Timothy tries telling him that new studies proved that smoking is a life-threatening habit, but Patrick simply dismisses him. When he personally sees the blackened lungs of a deceased smoker who died from lung cancer, and the attending examiner remarks how people naively believe smoking doesn't have health risks, he's absolutely shocked. When he sees Timothy (seemingly) smoking afterwards, he nearly loses it. He then declares that he's giving up smoking. After this, he is seen scarcely smoking unless it's a highly stressful situation (such as the Thalidomide crisis and May's jeopardized adoption).
• Second Love: After losing his first wife to illness, he was a widower content with life as a single working dad. However, he begins spending meaningful time with Shelagh and eventually realizes he's in love again. As soon as she leaves the Order and they mutually confirm their feelings for each other, he proposes the first chance he gets; making a fast but confident marriage.

Christopher Dockerill

Christopher Dockerill

Played By: Jack Hawkins (Series 6-7)

• Mistaken for Cheating: Trixie suspects Christopher of being unfaithful when she finds a woman's scarf in his car, only for it to belong to his daughter that he'd hesitated to tell her about.
• Parent with New Paramour: Him being a divorced man in a relationship with another woman is hard on his young daughter. In 1960s England, divorce wasn't nearly as commonplace as it was now, and being a child of divorced parents badly affects his daughter both socially and psychologically. This serves as part of the reason why Trixie breaks things off.

Miss Higgins

Miss Millicent Higgins

Played By: Georgie Glen (Series 8-Present)

• Almighty Janitor: She is the medical secretary for the maternity home and Dr Turner's surgery, and she is really good at her job. Her knowledge of patients' notes is a force to be reckoned with.
• Berserk Button: Messing with her notes or being unorganised/late.

Other Clergy

Tom Hereward

Reverend Tom Hereward

Played By: Jack Ashton (Series 3-7)

• Amicable Exes: He and Trixie aren't exactly best friends, but they get along okay after their engagement is called off.
• Good Shepherd: He's very involved in his community and is often called in to help resolve domestic conflicts in Poplar families. This is Truth in Television for members of the clergy; them being neutral and trusted by both parties makes it easy for them to mediate.

• Nice Guy: Very warm-hearted and considerate to others, which makes him well-suited for his job.
• Put on a Bus: Moves to Birmingham with Barbara in the 2017 Christmas Episode. It's stated to be a temporary move. But then The Bus Came Back and tragedy strikes for him and his wife...

Other Characters

Fred Buckle

Fred Buckle

Played By: Cliff Parisi

• December–December Romance: He married elderly Violet later in life, after his children are grown.
• Handyman: One of his many jobs is as the handyman for the ladies of Nonnatus House.

• Henpecked Husband: It's safe to say that when Violet asks Fred to do something, she expects it done.
• Second Love: His first wife died in the Blitz, leaving him to raise their daughters alone. He gets remarried to Violet over the course of the series and is shown to be very much in love with her.

Violet Buckle

Violet Buckle (formerly Gee)

Played By: Annabelle Apsion

• Full-Name Basis: While she does refer to Fred by his first name alone, Violet will often refer to him as Fred Buckle when she wants to get a point across.
• Parental Substitute: For Reggie after his mother dies, to the point where he affectionately starts calling her "Mum."

Reggie Jackson

Reggie Jackson

Played By: Daniel Laurie

• Conveniently an Orphan: His mother dies of a massive heart attack while attending church, leaving him to be looked after by Fred and Violet Buckle.
• Disappeared Dad: His father is never mentioned.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: His actor, Daniel Laurie, also has Down Syndrome.
• Straight Man: Often plays this to Fred's Bunny-Ears Lawyer, poking logic holes in all of his latest schemes.

Timothy Turner

Timothy "Tim" Turner

Played By: Max MacMillan

• Big Brother Instinct: He loves his younger siblings and can be quite protective of them. When his parents take in May as a foster child, he comes to see her as his sister and is upset when learning she will possibly leave for a new family.
• Boarding School: Revealed to be attending a boarding school in the series 9 premiere. This is both entirely in-character, as he's been shown to be extremely intelligent and academic (he attended a grammar school and wants to be a doctor), and convenient for writing purposes as it gives actor Max MacMillan an excuse for reduced screentime as he focuses on his own exams.
• Character Development: Initially comes across as a bratty teen before revealing himself to be rather precocious.
• Deadpan Snarker: He gets snarkier with each season, and is always ready to make a clever remark about his parents' foibles.
• Delicate and Sickly: Develops a case of polio in the 2013 Christmas Special. Luckily, he recovers, but he has to wear leg braces for a while before regaining his walking ability.
• Ivy League for Everyone: Well, the British version, anyway; in series 10 he is accepted into the University of Edinburgh's medical school. Just short of Oxbridge, Edinburgh is among the most prestigious universities in the country, on par with world-class institutions like the University of St Andrews and the University of London. This is entirely in character, as he went to a grammar school for secondary school and a prestigious public boarding school for his A-levels.
• Like Father, Like Son: Very much a chip off the old block. Like his dad, he reads The Lancet for fun, and it's quite obvious he's going to be an excellent doctor someday. (He also figured out that his stepmother was pregnant well before he was officially told about it, much to his parents' sheepish startlement.)
• Missing Mum: Though he adores his stepmother Shelagh and easily calls her 'mum', he is shown to dearly miss his late mother (his father's first wife), who died just before the start of the first series.
• Nice Guy: Timothy is a very kind, good-natured and caring young man.
• Parent with New Paramour: Is somewhat of a Shipper on Deck for his Dad and Shelagh, having no issue with his father pursuing her as he was already quite fond of her. He starts calling her "Mum" after the marriage with ease and is visibly happy when overhearing her say how she loves him like her own child.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Doesn't particularly want to see his Dad and stepmother kissing or doing "mushy stuff", his shipping of them notwithstanding. Said parents find this highly amusing.
• Scare 'Em Straight: How he gets his parents to quit smoking. He tried telling his father how new studies proved that smoking is a life-threatening habit, only be dismissed and left frustrated. He then uses reverse psychology and pretends to be smoking one of his dad's cigarettes while at home, making his father nearly lose it with him for doing so. Afterwards, his parents decide to give up smoking to set a good example. It's only after this that Patrick realizes Timothy never actually smoked and simply wanted to scare him into giving up smoking for his own health. Timothy simply smirks at his father as he realizes his used psychology tactic.
• Shipper on Deck: Supports his dad and stepmother's relationship. He was a key part of his father's proposal, writing the note that his dad uses to propose (asking her "Will you please marry my dad?" as his dad presented the ring) and easily begins calling her his mother.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Despite his young age, Timothy is shown to be very knowledgeable on things such as biology and medicine, likely due in part to his father and his own desire for learning. He's also mentioned several times his desire to someday go to medical school and follow in his father's footsteps. He also displays strong skill in psychology; able to successfully use reverse psychology to get his parents to stop smoking, teach his father how to use it to seal a business deal for the clinic and, despite being a young boy at the time, was able to tell his father was in love (or at least acting similar like with his late mother) based on his behavior.

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