Lesser house / family
Alkham family
Also called the Alkhams
A Dover house that spreads across both shores without becoming a corporation, owning relationships rather than the most tonnage.
Named with it
- Mary Alkham (agent
- keeps the crossing ledger)
- Peter Alkham
- Jacob Alkham (cousin
- customs house interpreter)
Ties
- members work at the Britannian factory at Blanchefleur and the Dover customs house
- Mary Alkham is an agent of the Kentish company houses
At the table
Mary acts for several Kentish principals. Peter knows which clerk of the syndic will answer once the harbour bell has gone. Jacob keeps his customs work so scrupulously apart from the family's business that it has become a common joke; nor has anyone ever proved that he did the family a favour.
- Kind
- Lesser house / family
- Region
- Kent and the Narrow Sea
- Founded
- c. 4450 A.C.
- Standing
- Present day
- Seat and places
- Dover and Blanchefleur
- Named in
- Book V
- Spoken of
- 13 times in the volumes
