Alderman Oldphart
Character
Wispy-bearded municipal elder and enemy of vacancy. Moves Hawksmoor’s removal and proposes Ian Corby as replacement, thereby allowing Bristol’s entelechy to continue at public expense.
Appears in
- Pretty Poli chapters:
From the books (2 passages)
…last, upon the conclusion of all this drab and mundane procedural business, that wispy-bearded mundane and drab emeritus Alderman Oldphart got up upon his legs, and proposed the removal of the Mayor,
…any case must assume the ultimate responsibility; moreover I have recently learnt from my esteemed colleagues,” and here Alderman Oldphart deigned to gesture with an exquisite courtesy of thumb in the direction of Messrs Justice Shallow and Justice Silent, “that is to say that I recently learned that our esteemed colleague the Mayor had many years ago a wife and egg whom he abandoned, which was most shameful and unbecoming…