THOMAS LYNLEY
I got this info from the novels (A Great Delivery, Payment in Blood, Well-schooled in murder and A Suitable Vengeance). More info and details may (and will) be added as I read more books.
Name: Thomas 'Tommy' Lynley
Title: 8th Earl of Asherton
Age: 34 (at the start of the series)
Spouse: Lady Helen Clyde
Father: ??
Mother: Lady Dorothy 'Daze' Asherton
Siblings: brother Peter Lynley and sister Judith 'Judy' Lynley
Hair color: blonde
Eye color: brown
Profession: Detective Inspector
Other: wears reading spectacles
SHORT BIO - still a rough sketch but I'm slowly getting there eventually-
Tommy seems to be everything that every man would ever want to be. He is handsome, charismatic, smart and he has the title and the money. Yet underneath that seemingly "perfect" outside there is a much deeper story on the inside.
He fled from his family at Howenstow when he discovered his mother having sex with another man (Roderick Trenarrow), whilst his father was on his death-bed. Tommy felt that his mother had betrayed his father and their family name, and he made sure that she and Trenarrow would suffer. Tommy had not expected Trenarrow to wanting to marrying his mother, but later it is revealed by Peter, Tommy's brother, that Tommy had caused the pair not to marry because of his constant drama.
It was because of Tommy leaving the house that young Peter started to go downhill. He looked up to his brother as his role model and thought that he should be like him. Thomas gets a rough ordeal when he is faced with the ongoing drug abuse of his brother and later with his possible involvement in a serious murder crime and/or drug smuggling. Tommy feels guilty for his brother's fall and tries to get him out of it, but Peter says that he only does that so that Peter will stop hurting the family name and more importantly, Tommy's good name. While Tommy's act may be selfish in the beginning, once he understands Peter, he can be there for him and help him in every way he can.
Tommy and Simon Allcourt St. James go way back. They are best friends. Their friendship suffered greaty from time to time. First they got in a car accident whilst Tommy was driving. This cost St. James one of his legs. He has been walking with a cane ever since and has an artifical leg. St. James never blamed Tommy for anything, yet at times he couldn't help but feel a little jealous over the nearly perfect Tommy. Another point at which their friendship was in jeopardy was when Tommy got engaged to St. James' love of his life, Deborah Cotter. St. James and the much younger Deborah had been in a relationship shortly before she departed for the USA to study. Whilst St. James never wrote or visited Deborah (which made her think that he didn't love her as much as she did him), Tommy did. He visited her a couple of times and that is when they became a couple. It is later revealed that Deborah got pregnant by him but she had an abortion. This is never revealed to Tommy. When they returned to the UK they got engaged.
Tommy and Simon shared another woman; lady Helen Clyde. Simon had a relationship with her once and Tommy ended up marrying her whilst Simon married Deborah. Happily ever after?