Mr Searle used the names of all the Y5 children in his story:
Shakespeare Smith (Shay)- main character
Travis - Shay's best mate
Uncle Earnshaw - Shay's uncle
Mr Whybrew - Shay's teacher
Mrs Hindle - Shay's teacher in Y4
Charloton Museum of String
Brisland - name of Obadiah Grenville's house in Stratford
Campbell - one of Shay and Trav's school friends
W W Thomson - secretary of the Cheltenham Local History Society
Dr Ebbs - a curator at Cheltenham Museum
Johnson Strangefellow MBE - an expert on the sixteenth century
Stafford - museum security guard
Colley Farthingale - owner of Colley's Collectables, an antique shop in Cheltenham
Afseth Turnpike - best friend of Shay's younger brother, Darwin
Miss Painter - Darwin and Afseth's teacher
Suica - a Y6 boy at Shay's school
Suzi Sharpe - a friend of Uncle Earnshaw, owner of the White Pearl
Underhill Earthcuddle - a friend of Uncle Earnshaw, builder of the Rainbow Fish
Captain Erasmus Blackwell - a friend of Uncle Earnshaw, builder of a pirate galleon
Seaman Sid - works with Captain Blackwell on Queen Anne's Revenge
Arthur Kenann - a guide at Nash's House Museum in Stratford
Williams Bryn - presenter of the TV show, History Team
Hemphill Aldersworth - writer of a book found in Stratford Library
Mr and Mrs Baker - Underhill's ducks
Lena - Underhill's green iguana
Olga - Underhill's Angora goat
Barnard Collins - Victorian founder of the theatre in Stratford
Priya - paramedic who treated Shay after his fall from a tree
Constable He - local police officer
Dame Astringea Gaby - owner of the houseboat used by Johnson and Colley
Professor Cwiklak Svenyonsson - retired Oxford don and biographer of Barnard Collins
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Duncan Cook - curator of the RSC collection
Mrs Pope - Professor Svenyonsson's housekeeper