Mansfield Park
Dr. Grant
The Mansfield clergyman
The comfortable, self-indulgent clergyman of Mansfield Parsonage and husband of Mrs. Grant. He likes his dinner and does not like it delayed.
Dr. Grant holds the living at Mansfield Parsonage and lives there with his wife. He is a respectable, pompous churchman who cares about his dinner and gets irritable when it is late.
He represents the comfortable, older kind of clergyman, which makes a sharp contrast with Edmund's serious view of the church. Edmund is the one who will take on a clergyman's duty in earnest. He is a creature of comfort, and when the dinner is late, he is not shy about letting the house know.
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Dr. Grant is mostly in the background of the story, as the head of the household where the Crawfords stay. His Parsonage is the place where Mary and Henry settle in among the Bertrams.
At the end Edmund and Fanny take over the Mansfield Parsonage as their home, and the clergyman's duty that Edmund prizes becomes theirs to carry on.
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