Hendreary Clock

Hendreary Clock is Arrietty's uncle. He is identified as a member of the Clock family in The Borrowers, but in The Borrowers Afield, Homily says that he is her brother. Poor Stainless seems to contradict this, as Homily does not count Hendreary among her siblings, and mentions "your Uncle Hendreary's father" rather than "your grandfather."

His wife died, leaving him with two sons and a daughter named Eggletina. He then married Lupy, who was a widow with two children, according to Homily. (However, when the Clocks meet them, they are living with only four children – Eggletina and three boys.)

He was a good borrower, but a maid saw him on April 23, 1892 when he was trying to borrow a liver pill for Lupy. Afterwards, a cat was brought to the house and Eggletina disappeared. Subsequently, he moved his family out of the house, to a badger’s set in the field Parkin’s Beck under a hawthorn hedge. He soon moved again, living in Spiller's stove for two years, and later in the home of the gamekeeper, in the walls by the chimney. After that, they moved again, this time to a church.

Description
He has a beard, walks with a limp and suffers from gout.