# Captain Hawdon — Bleak House character guide

> Captain Hawdon in Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Nemo

**First appearance:** 0010-ix-signs-and-tokens

## Who they are

A former soldier who dies in poverty, later revealed as Esther's father.

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