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|name= Winstanley
|image= Winstanley2.jpg
|alias=
|species = Human
|image= winstanley.jpg
|spouse=Josephine Bingley
|species=Human
|origin= [[Earth]]
|origin= [[Earth]]
|only= The Dæmons
|first= The Dæmons (TV story)
|appearances = [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Poppet (home video)|The Poppet]]''
|actor= Rollo Gamble
|actor= Rollo Gamble
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|other actor = Alan Phizacklea
'''Winstanley''' was the Squire of [[Devil's End]]. When the Third Doctor and Jo Grant asked for directions to the Devil's Hump, he asked the Doctor whether he was ''One of the television chaps'', much to the Doctor's resentment. The Master wanted Winstanley to ''Start behaving like the squire'' and arrange a meeting, and Winstanley said that he would thank the Master not to take that tone with him. The Master used powers that had been used in the recent hours at Devil's End to prove to Winstanley that he controlled the powers in Devil's End, and Winstanley briskly arranged a meeting with some of the villagers. He was killed by [[Bok]] when he refused to serve {{Delgado}}. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'')
|job=Squire|aka=Monmorency Vere de Vere Winstanley, Cedric Winstanley|alias=}}'''Winstanley''' was the [[squire]] of [[Devil's End]] in the [[1970s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')
 
By one account, his full name was '''Monmorency Vere de Vere Winstanley'''; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dæmons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Dæmons]]'') by another, it was '''Cedric Winstanley'''. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Poppet (home video)|The Poppet]]'')
 
== Biography ==
Winstanley gave the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] directions to the [[Devil's Hump]], and asked the Doctor whether he was one of "those television chaps", much to the Doctor's resentment.
 
{{Delgado|c}} met Winstanley in the vicarage and told him to start behaving like the squire and arrange a meeting of the villagers, but Winstanley refused. The Master then caused a wind to sweep through the house, proving to Winstanley that he controlled the powers that had been released in Devil's End over the last few hours. Winstanley agreed to do anything the Master said.
 
He attended the meeting, but was vapourised by [[Bok]] when he refused to serve the Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
* In the [[Doctor Who and the Daemons|novelisation]], he is given the full name of Montmorency Vere de Vere Winstanley.
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Latest revision as of 20:56, 24 June 2023

Winstanley was the squire of Devil's End in the 1970s. (TV: The Dæmons)

By one account, his full name was Monmorency Vere de Vere Winstanley; (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Dæmons) by another, it was Cedric Winstanley. (HOMEVID: The Poppet)

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Winstanley gave the Third Doctor and Jo Grant directions to the Devil's Hump, and asked the Doctor whether he was one of "those television chaps", much to the Doctor's resentment.

The Master met Winstanley in the vicarage and told him to start behaving like the squire and arrange a meeting of the villagers, but Winstanley refused. The Master then caused a wind to sweep through the house, proving to Winstanley that he controlled the powers that had been released in Devil's End over the last few hours. Winstanley agreed to do anything the Master said.

He attended the meeting, but was vapourised by Bok when he refused to serve the Master. (TV: The Dæmons)