Who is Will Ladislaw in George Eliot’s Middlemarch?

Will Ladislaw is a central character in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch. He is depicted as a young, headstrong idealist who serves as a foil to his older, more pedantic cousin, Edward Casaubon. Both men are attracted to Dorothea Brooke, the novel's heroine. Ladislaw eventually falls in love with Dorothea and marries her after Casaubon's death. He later becomes a politician.123