Patrick Harper

Regimental Sergeant Major Patrick Augustine Harper is a large, fierce-seeming man from Donegal, Ireland, described in Sharpe's Company as being blue eyed, sandy haired, six foot four inches of muscle and contentment. Harper is the trusted right hand of Richard Sharpe with whom he was initially antagonistic, not quite trusting a man who is uncomfortable being an officer (Sharpe's Rifles) but Harper eventually becomes Sharpe's best friend and most reliable companion, rising in rank to sergeant and later to regimental sergeant-major.