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The first member of The Spectator Club is Sir Rodger De Coverley, a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent. He was a baronetcy, Rodger appears as such a gentleman who is very different in his behaviour and his singularities proceed from his good sense. Rodger always things that the world is in the wrong and his manners are found contradictory to the manager of the world. Sir Rodger has never created any enemy for heaters nothing with sourness of obstinacy. He is never confined to the laws and regularities of the society and always makes himself a ready person, capable to you please and oblige all who knew him.
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| Sir Roger De Coverley |
Sir Roger was a man of keen observer, sharp intellectual and vivid understanding kind of person. He chose his profession rather to obey the direction of his father than to incline to his own aptitude. He took to the study of law in his higher education to be obedience toward his old father. He was more interested in the study of literature specifically drama and dramatic criticism. The philosophers on this sphere of literary art like Aristotle and Longinus were well appreciated by him. His father keep vigilance upon him to ensure his son’s progress in legal studies.
Sir Roger De Coverley heading disappointment in love because one beautiful widow had betrayed him and from that day onwards he remained very serious for a year and half. In his appearance Rodger continued to wear a coat and doublet of the some cut. In the essay Rodger is found in his 56th year always cheerful gay and heart keeping a good house both in Town and Country. Sir Rodger is a great lover of mankind and there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour that is always believed then esteemed. Rodger had a great property of his own and he used to call the servants by their names and talked all the way upstairs to a visit to any house. And finally in the essay we are told that Sir Rodger become a justice of the quorum and filled, the chair of a quarter session with great ability and also gained universal applause for his explanation of a passage in the Game Act.