In 'The Woman in Black', what is the name of the solicitor?

The solicitor in Susan Hill’s “The Woman in Black” is Arthur Kipps.

Kipps is a young London solicitor sent to the remote village of Crythin Gifford to attend the funeral of Alice Drablow and settle her estate. Drablow lived at Eel Marsh House, an isolated property accessible by the tidal Nine Lives Causeway. What begins as routine legal work becomes a terrifying encounter with a supernatural figure.

The novel is structured as Kipps’s recollection of events from his youth. Years later, he remains deeply distressed by what happened and writes the story as a way of confronting his past. His professional rationality contrasts with the ghostly phenomena surrounding Eel Marsh House, including the apparition known as the Woman in Black.

Arthur Kipps is sometimes confused with Arthur Kidd, the altered name used for the protagonist in the 1989 television film adaptation. The original 1983 novel, the stage play, and the 2012 film use Kipps. The story was written by English author Susan Hill and became a long-running West End stage production.