Squire William Thornwall Brockhollow

Squire William Thornwall Brockhollow, called Squire Badger, is first mentioned by Catherine McCabbage as "the good squire" MM E1·00:13:53, and a newspaper reports accusations of negligence against William Brockhollow MM E1·00:30:28. He is the squire of Tufting Meadows and lord of Loam Hall, a badger who is about to turn 60 MM E1·01:28:02 MM E1·01:29:17 MM E1·01:34:48. In a note he asks Sylvester to attend his 60th birthday party at Loam Hall instead of asking for a refund MM E1·00:36:00. In his speech he says that his guests have committed "the rather inadvisable act of attending the 60th birthday celebration of a known bore" MM E1·01:34:48. Brennan calls him an old military soul who does not get rattled very easily MM E1·01:38:52.

Squire Badger is a badger and old soldier who hosts his 60th birthday at Loam Hall and, in a note, asks Sylvester to attend because his presence would help with the negative attention over the hiring MM E1·00:36:00 MM E1·01:38:52. At the party he flips a poker table over at Buckster MM E2·01:13:48. He shouts "nothing lives but legacy, you stupid pig!" MM E2·01:15:20. Mrs. Molesly, who says she was his nanny, is in the study with him when the party arrives, and the squire has a bloody knife in his hand and an open wound over his heart; she claims he did it to himself MM E2·01:43:42 MM E2·02:21:52 MM E2·02:22:11.

In MM_05 Sylvester pulls a fragment of metal out of the squire's heart, which Brennan says is Bavarian shrapnel from the Schnauzer War, and says "This is not the wound that killed him." MM E5·00:31:34 MM E5·00:32:02 MM E5·00:33:56. In the seance room Brennan tells Daisy that Squire Badger's eyes are identical to those of the Badger Lord in the portrait MM E5·00:49:26. In the cellar morgue Gangie finds a body that Brennan says is a decoy with a shard of shrapnel in the chest MM E9·01:03:24 MM E9·01:04:21. Buckster's reading of the ledgers is that the squire was deeply in debt MM E9·01:26:21, while from the stolen Bavarian art on the walls he concludes "We're talking treason here." MM E9·01:26:57. Brennan tells the players they know the squire's motives to help Fletcher Cottonbottom, to whom he was deeply indebted MM E9·01:58:08.

In MM_10 Constance says her father told her the murders were an elaborate con that had already tricked Sylvester, that she told him to go to Sylvester Cross, and that he said he would write Sylvester a letter in his study MM E10·00:49:12 MM E10·00:50:38. Lars tells her that Squire Badger went against the plan and paid with his life, and that the body found in the house is his actual body, not the unused decoy MM E10·00:52:18. Fletcher says that Squire Badger "got cold feet and tried to ruin everything" MM E10·02:04:02. Jeremy says that at the last moment his father changed his mind MM E10·02:28:08 MM E10·02:28:25.