He spends his last days in the care of Whittle who he had earlier mistreated and he returns to present his daughter with a goldfinch at her wedding. His former employee, Jopp, uses knowledge of Lucetta's activities in Jersey as blackmail and reads his love letters to her in the local inn, triggering her subsequent death through a miscarriage. He informs Richard Newson that (*) Susan and Elizabeth-Jane are dead and earlier mistakenly claims to be Elizabeth-Jane's father. He goes into bankruptcy after receiving bad advice from a weather profit and loses out to man who had shown him how to restore grain, his former manager Farfrae. For 10 points, name is this grainmerchant who, while at a village fair in Upper Wessex, 
He spends his last days in the care of Whittle who he had earlier mistreated and he returns to present his daughter with a goldfinch at her wedding. His former employee, Jopp, uses knowledge of Lucetta's activities in Jersey as blackmail and reads his love letters to her in the local inn, triggering her subsequent death through a miscarriage. He informs Richard Newson that (*) Susan and Elizabeth-Jane are dead and earlier mistakenly claims to be Elizabeth-Jane's father. He goes into bankruptcy after receiving bad advice from a weather profit and loses out to man who had shown him how to restore grain, his former manager Farfrae. For 10 points, name is this grainmerchant who, while at a village fair in Upper Wessex, sold his wife and daughter to a sailor for five guineas in Thomas Hardy novel.
He spends his last days in the care of Whittle who he had earlier mistreated and he returns to present his daughter with a goldfinch at her wedding.
The {Mayor of Casterbridge} [or Michael Henchard, accept either or both names]