Old Heppenstall (Rev. Francis), vicar of Twing and umpire in the annual village school treat in The Purity of the Turf; uncle of James Bates, to whom he lends a sermon in The Great Sermon Handicap; uncle of Mary Burgess in The Metropolitan Touch, where we learn that his second son (unnamed) is home from Rugby.

• The Purity of the Turf
• The Great Sermon Handicap
• The Metropolitan Touch