Franklyn Bivatt, father of Margaret in A Job of Work, is an unpleasant little millionaire with a weak digestion, a taste for dogmatic speech, and the personal appearance of a pterodactyl. Small and shrivelled, lives on hot water, triturated biscuit, and pepsin tabloids. Promises to let Freddie Bingham marry Margaret if he can hold down a job long enough to earn $500. Has an idle son named Twombley.