What is the name of the vicar in the village of Highbury in 'Emma'?

The vicar in the village of Highbury in Jane Austen’s Emma is Mr. Elton. More fully, he is Reverend Philip Elton, the young clergyman responsible for the parish and its religious duties.

Mr. Elton becomes central to Emma Woodhouse’s misguided matchmaking. Emma imagines that he would make a suitable husband for her friend Harriet Smith, but she misreads his attention. Elton is actually interested in Emma herself, partly because of her social position and substantial fortune. When he proposes and discovers that Emma thought he loved Harriet, he is offended and quickly leaves for Bath.

Elton’s ambition is revealed more clearly when he returns married to Augusta Hawkins, soon known as Mrs. Elton. She brings money and social confidence, but her self-importance makes her an uncomfortable presence in Highbury. The episode also exposes Emma’s class assumptions and her tendency to confuse her own theories with other people’s feelings.

Readers sometimes confuse Mr. Elton with Mr. Knightley, Emma’s neighbour and eventual husband, or with Mr. Woodhouse, Emma’s father. Neither is the village vicar.