# Sir Godwin Lydgate — Middlemarch character guide

> Sir Godwin Lydgate in Middlemarch by George Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Sir Godwin Lydgate, Godwin, Sir Godwin, Godwin Lydgate

**First appearance:** 0015-xii

## Who they are

Lydgate's wealthy uncle, a baronet who disapproves of his nephew's marriage.

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