Description
Tall and wiry with a salt-and-pepper beard and a perpetually furrowed brow, Edwin Fairchild is a man who speaks little but sees much. His rough hands tell of years hauling ropes, and his weathered face carries the deep lines of a man accustomed to storms — both at sea and in his own life.
Background
A former sailor turned publican, Edwin keeps The Fox & Hound in Portsmouth with his wife Margaret. Where Margaret is the warmth of the inn, Edwin is its quiet watchman. He keeps a careful eye on strangers, quick to size up a man’s intentions with a single glance. He tolerates no nonsense, but as long as a guest keeps their head down and pays their coin, they’ll find no safer place to rest.
He was present when Marina Garrick arrived at the inn half-dead in the summer of 1813, and kept his silence about it afterwards — see Marina Recruitment Portsmouth.
Connections
- Location: Fox and Hound Portsmouth, Portsmouth
- Family: Mrs Margaret Fairchild (wife)
Relationships
- Spouse of Mrs Margaret Fairchild — Husband and wife, keepers of The Fox & Hound