What is the name of the protagonist in Lovecraft's "The Tomb"?

“What is the name of the protagonist in Lovecraft’s ‘The Tomb’?” — Jervas Dudley. He is the story’s first-person narrator, a young man whose intense imagination becomes focused on a locked mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family.

As a child, Dudley discovers the tomb near the ruins of a mansion destroyed by fire. Although he cannot open its padlocked entrance, he begins sleeping beside it and waiting for the day when he believes he will be allowed inside. His fascination deepens through reading, dreaming, and increasingly uncertain perceptions of the past.

Lovecraft wrote “The Tomb” in 1917, but it was not published until the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. The story is an early example of his interest in hereditary memory, forbidden spaces, and narrators whose accounts may not be reliable. The alternative names are characters from other Lovecraft works: Randolph Carter recurs across several stories, Walter Gilman stars in “The Dreams in the Witch House,” and Robert Olmstead narrates “The Shadow over Innsmouth.”