Gabriel Carter

Gabriel Carter is an extremely rich banker and universally hated miser. He featured in The Lunatic, The Doctors, and The Daemonologist.

His chief clerk is Benjamin Davies. Patience Martins is his maid, whom he treats with cruelty.

Peter Carter is his nephew and Sarah Carter his niece.

Gabriel has been guardian to Sarah for some time, and lately has been feeling her a burden. He bribed the then-head doctor of York asylum, Dr. Best, to diagnose her with melancholia, and then arranged with Magistrate Matthew Murrey to have her forcibly admitted to the asylum, and for a mix-up with her identity to occur such that the asylum staff came to know her under a different name. He told everyone that Sarah had gone to stay with her aunt Audrey in Scarborough.

He was shot inside the minster just before evensong by Catherine Allesbury, in a fit of madness.