Proper noun
Jacob Marley
A fictional man who appears as a ghost in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, warning his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge against being greedy and selfish.
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserable penny-pinching London businessman, is visited on Christmas Eve by Jacob Marley, his deceased partner. Source: Internet
Other people think they are clever in remembering the ghost of Scrooge’s old partner, Jacob Marley, and they’ll tell you A CHRISTMAS CAROL has four ghosts in it. Source: Internet
The tortured spirits of those who lived like Scrooge crawl on the floor in agony while the ghost of Jacob Marley explains what his fate was when he died to Scrooge. Source: Internet