What is the name of Scrooge's deceased business partner in A Christmas Carol?

The deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol is Jacob Marley.

Marley had been Scrooge’s partner in the counting-house, but he died seven years before the story begins. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sees Marley’s face appear on the brass door knocker, then encounters his ghost inside the house. Marley is wrapped in chains, cashboxes, keys, and ledgers, symbols of the selfish business life he pursued when alive.

Marley explains that he forged these chains through years of neglecting human need. He warns Scrooge that three spirits will visit him and urges him to change before suffering the same fate. The ghost’s intervention begins Scrooge’s moral transformation.

A common mix-up is treating Marley as another name for Scrooge. They are separate characters: Marley is the dead former partner, while Ebenezer Scrooge is the living miser whose future Marley hopes to save.