Characters in Gentlemen & Players
- Roy Straitley – unmarried Classics master, called "Quaz" by his pupils. Highly intelligent, defiantly old-fashioned, very observant, devoted to his pupils and the School, he is totally unambitious, dislikes being told what to do, despises all innovations in teaching and has the habit of swearing in Latin at people who don't know the language.
- Pat Bishop – the Second Master, also unmarried, a keen sportstman devoted to St Oswald's.
- Bob Strange – the Third Master, a bureaucrat unpopular with the pupils; ambitious, narrow-minded and unscrupulous.
- Geoff and Penny Nation – a married couple, part of the German department.
- Tony Beard – head of computer science.
- Isabelle Tapi – a part-time French teacher, "rather useless in a leggy, Gallic kind of way"
- Jeff Light – a Games master. Boorish and lazy.
- Chris Keane – a young man who teaches English but wants to be a novelist.
- Dianne Dare – an attractive young woman who teaches French.
- The New Head: headmaster of St Oswald's. A born administrator, still referred to as the "New Head" by Straitley, even though he has been at St Oswald's for fifteen years.
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