A wealthy unmarried young man newly expected to settle near the Bennets.
Mr. Bingley is reported by Mrs. Long to have leased Netherfield Park. He is a young man of large fortune from northern England who arrived in a chaise and four, liked the estate at once, and agreed with its owner, Mr. Morris, to take it before Michaelmas.
Though he has not yet appeared directly, his being single and worth four or five thousand a year makes him the immediate object of Mrs. Bennet's matrimonial hopes for one of her daughters.
He is a young man from northern England. The text has not yet described his face, build, hair, complexion, or dress.
His arrival at Netherfield begins the Bennets' pursuit of a promising local connection.