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Mr. Groat
Tolliver Groat, as drawn by Matt Smith
Name	Tolliver Groat
Age	over 50
Race	Human
Occupation	Postman
Looks	old, bearded, smelly. Wears an abysmal wig which made several valiant independent attempts to escape from hospital custody.
Residence	Ankh-Morpork Post Office
Death	Once feared dying as the oldest Junior Postman ever, but can now go to his ancestors with pride at being Deputy Postmaster-General.
Parents	Comes from one of those long-standing Post Office families.
Relatives	all appear to have been Sorted and Delivered to the Dead Letter Box.
Children	none, but in a very real sense he did adopt Stanley Howler and helped ease his transition from the world of peas to the world of people.
Marital Status	single, but in Wintersmith we learn of the existance of a possible soon-to-be-Mrs. Groat.
Books	Going Postal, Wintersmith, Making Money
Cameos	{{{cameos}}}

One of the last two postmen remaining at the beginning of Going Postal. Severely distrusts doctors, so he brews his own medicine and has his own little cures to keep himself in good condition. Paradoxically, several years' worth of an application of bread pudding and goose grease to his chest (Tolliver is not a believer in baths) actually did save his life when he was attacked by a wild banshee who mistook him for Moist von Lipwig because he was wearing the Hat at the time. This meant that the long killing claws merely gashed his chest and did not penetrate any deeper.

His trousers, permeated as they were with charcoal, nitre and sulphur to keep disease at bay, were the only known subject of a controlled detonation in a medical environment. As he resisted all attempts to give him a bath while in the care of the Lady Sybil Free Hospital, Dr John Lawn was more than happy to discharge him into the care of Moist.

He is fluent in the only known rhyming slang known to the Discworld that does not actually rhyme.

In Making Money, Groat is elevated to Acting Postmaster, with full Hat-wearing privileges, to cover for Moist von Lipwig while he is busy with the Bank and Mint. Not bad for a man who we first met as the oldest Junior Postman in town... and things continue to look up for Mr. Groat, as in Wintersmith we learn that he is "walking out" with a widow who has the same attitude to self-medication that he has. Evidently she has no sense of smell, and certainly the Deputy Postmaster-General is a more desirable catch than a mere Senior Postman?

The name, the character description, and the Gormenghast-like Post office building, are straight out of Mervyn Peake: Tulliver Groat's personal take on the grotesque means that he could walk in to Peake's fantasy virtually as is. Possible annotation, or just something to refer to in passing?

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