Martin Chuzzlewit sweet and good, like her brother. At first she works as a governess to a wealthy family with several nasty brats. Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together. She falls in love with, and marries, Tom's friend John Westlock. Mark Tapley, the good-humoured employee of the Blue Dragon Inn and suitor of Mrs Lupin (the Dragon's owner), leaves that establishment to find work that's more of a credit to his character: that is, work sufficiently miserable that his cheerfulness will be more of a credit to him. He eventually joins Young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo Haut-Ton" becomes a candidate for British Parliament based on Monboddo's theories. Charles Dickens, in his novel "Martin Chuzzlewit", refers to "the Manboddo doctrine touching the probability of the human race having once been monkeys". In his 1981 dystopian novel "Lanark", Alasdair Gray names the head of the mysterious Institute Lord Monboddo. He makes the connection explicit in a marginal note, adding that it is not a literal depiction. Lord Monboddo's descendant, Jamie Burnett of Leys, has sponsored a stage work "Monboddo – The Musical" which is a biographical re-enactment of the life of his ancestor. It received a first run