List of The Vicar of Dibley characters

Councillor David Francis Matthew Horton MBE, MA (Cantab), FRCS, born on 3 September in an unknown year, is chairman of the parish council, gentleman farmer, pillar of the community and District Councillor for Dibley and Whitworth. He is the main opponent of the vicar, yet as the series progresses, he comes to respect her. A notorious bully, he controlled the parish council without any opposition until Geraldine's arrival, and is consequently disliked by many, being rigid, old-fashioned, efficient, callous and punctual, yet as the show progresses, becomes lovable and endearing. Apart from the vicar, he is the only sane person in the village. Despite regularly complaining about the council, he has never missed a meeting. In fact, in one episode Jim and Owen reminisce about when David's wife went into labour with Hugo, and David held the meeting in the maternity ward. His wife left him prior to the show's beginning due to his obnoxious nature (although he mistakenly believes she left him because he was a bad cook). In later episodes of the series, David comes to fall for the vicar and even proposes to her (she accepts his proposal but later decides to back out). He is a Conservative, though he joins the Labour Party in 2000 as part of his attempt to persuade Geraldine to marry him; by the 2004-05 episode "Happy New Year" he is a Conservative Party supporter again. After initial reluctance, he supported the Make Poverty History campaign in 2004-05. Hugo mentions that people used to call him "Dirty David" due to his collection of Victorian pornography. David was an unloving father to Hugo, and even threatened to disinherit him if he married Alice, whom David detests. However he changed his mind and later admitted to the vicar that he accepted Alice and Hugo are happy together. In December 2020 it was revealed that David had moved to Monaco that summer, where he had married a baroness, with 600 guests at the wedding.

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