Asides - People Mentioned But Not Seen
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Ackerman - friend of Dr Hasdi who refers him to the mercenary company that Jamie and Ian serve with (Virgins)
Agnes - Ned Gowan refers to case law relating to the trial of Goody Agnes for witchcraft when he attempts to delay the witch trial at Cranesmuir (Exile, chapter 9) 'Goody' is a form of address for women, a shortened version of the word 'Goodwife'
Alec Hays - one of Jamie's smugglers present during the ambush at Arbroath. Alec had searched the rocks beforehand but found no sign of excisemen (V, chapter 30)
Alex MacDonald of Scotus - brother of Angus MacDonald of Scotus (DIA, chapter 37)
Alex MacGregor - The name of the man whose Bible was given to Jamie when he was about to be flogged for the second time. His full name is Alexander William Roderick MacGregor (Outlander only, chapter 22) Alex McGregor was arrested for cattle lifting when he was 18. Two weeks before his sentence ended he had a 'private conversation' with Jack Randall and a week later he hung himself. Jamie vows that he will kill Randall and send Alex McGregor's Bible back to his mother (Outlander, chapter 31)
Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch - the chieftain of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch. He is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34) He charged the field at Culloden with his brother Donald and was cut down by cannon fire (DIA, chapter 47)
Alexander MacKenzie Fraser - one of the names on Claire's list of Lallybroch men. Roger found this name listed in the death rolls but it turned out to be a man from a different regiment (DIA, chapter 2)
Alexander the Great - ten of the coins in the seals treasure were tetradrachms with twin heads of Alexander the Great (V, chapter 40)
Alfonse - Brother Alfonse is one of the Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupre and the one in charge of the laundry (DIA, chapter 6)
Alick MacGregor - the name used for Alex MacGregor in Cross Stitch. (Cross Stitch only, chapter 22) Refer to Alex MacGregor
Amyas Kettrick - a neighbour at Lallybroch. He warns Jenny that Hobart MacKenzie is on his way to Lallybroch (V, chapter 38)
Andrzej Kolodziewicz - a Polish airman and friend of Jerry MacKenzie. They served in the same squadron but Andrzej was shot down a month before Jerry was recruited for his top secret mission. Jerry learnt to speak a bit of Polish from Andrzej (Leaf)
Angus MacDonald of Scotus - the chieftain of Clan MacDonald of Scotus. Angus MacDonald is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34) He is brother to Alex MacDonald of Scotus (DIA, chapter 37)
Antoine Walsh - an ex-slaver who provided Charles Stuart with two small frigates to cross the Channel to Scotland (DIA, chapter 35) Antoine Walsh's father had taken James Stuart safely to Europe on his ship after James's failed 1715 Jacobite rebellion. James Stuart named Antoine Walsh, Earl Walsh, for his part in escorting Charles Stuart to Scotland
Archie - the cousin of Jenny Cameron who led 300 men of her clan to join Prince Charles (DIA, chapter 36)
Armando Alcantara - the cuckolded husband of Father Fogden's lover, Ermenegilda (V, chapter 50)
Agnes - Ned Gowan refers to case law relating to the trial of Goody Agnes for witchcraft when he attempts to delay the witch trial at Cranesmuir (Exile, chapter 9) 'Goody' is a form of address for women, a shortened version of the word 'Goodwife'
Alec Hays - one of Jamie's smugglers present during the ambush at Arbroath. Alec had searched the rocks beforehand but found no sign of excisemen (V, chapter 30)
Alex MacDonald of Scotus - brother of Angus MacDonald of Scotus (DIA, chapter 37)
Alex MacGregor - The name of the man whose Bible was given to Jamie when he was about to be flogged for the second time. His full name is Alexander William Roderick MacGregor (Outlander only, chapter 22) Alex McGregor was arrested for cattle lifting when he was 18. Two weeks before his sentence ended he had a 'private conversation' with Jack Randall and a week later he hung himself. Jamie vows that he will kill Randall and send Alex McGregor's Bible back to his mother (Outlander, chapter 31)
Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch - the chieftain of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch. He is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34) He charged the field at Culloden with his brother Donald and was cut down by cannon fire (DIA, chapter 47)
Alexander MacKenzie Fraser - one of the names on Claire's list of Lallybroch men. Roger found this name listed in the death rolls but it turned out to be a man from a different regiment (DIA, chapter 2)
Alexander the Great - ten of the coins in the seals treasure were tetradrachms with twin heads of Alexander the Great (V, chapter 40)
Alfonse - Brother Alfonse is one of the Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupre and the one in charge of the laundry (DIA, chapter 6)
Alick MacGregor - the name used for Alex MacGregor in Cross Stitch. (Cross Stitch only, chapter 22) Refer to Alex MacGregor
Amyas Kettrick - a neighbour at Lallybroch. He warns Jenny that Hobart MacKenzie is on his way to Lallybroch (V, chapter 38)
Andrzej Kolodziewicz - a Polish airman and friend of Jerry MacKenzie. They served in the same squadron but Andrzej was shot down a month before Jerry was recruited for his top secret mission. Jerry learnt to speak a bit of Polish from Andrzej (Leaf)
Angus MacDonald of Scotus - the chieftain of Clan MacDonald of Scotus. Angus MacDonald is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34) He is brother to Alex MacDonald of Scotus (DIA, chapter 37)
Antoine Walsh - an ex-slaver who provided Charles Stuart with two small frigates to cross the Channel to Scotland (DIA, chapter 35) Antoine Walsh's father had taken James Stuart safely to Europe on his ship after James's failed 1715 Jacobite rebellion. James Stuart named Antoine Walsh, Earl Walsh, for his part in escorting Charles Stuart to Scotland
Archie - the cousin of Jenny Cameron who led 300 men of her clan to join Prince Charles (DIA, chapter 36)
Armando Alcantara - the cuckolded husband of Father Fogden's lover, Ermenegilda (V, chapter 50)
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Balhaldy - a seedy-looking Jacobite in Paris. His real name is William MacGregor, or Drummond of Balhaldies (DIA, chapter 7)
Bart Clancy - the grandson of one of the secretaries in Frank's History faculty who was brought to work for a month by his grandmother when his mother was sick and who spent his time running up and down the halls shrieking and spilling ink (V, chapter 7)
Bayard Murray Fraser - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 2)
Benedict - Pope Benedict XIV. Jamie notes that Pope Benedict continues to support James Stuart (DIA, chapter 7)
Benjamin Franklin - Claire uses one of Benjamin Franklin's proverbs while she is in Edinburgh and reflects that he probably doesn't have a wide readership in that city (V, chapter 26)
Berta - the housekeeper in Louise de la Tour's country house at Fontainebleu. Berta is a Huguenot (DIA, chapter 26)
Bob McNab - one of Grannie McNab's 16 grandsons, three of whom are named Robert and possibly the same person as Bobby McNab below (Outlander, chapter 28)
Bobby McNab - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart, and possibly the same person as Bob McNab above (DIA, chapter 36)
Bogle - the man who was Governor of Ardsmuir Prison before Harry Quarry (V, chapter 8)
Bolton - Gordon Dunsany was a captain in Bolton's regiment (V, chapter 14) This possibly refers to the 52nd Regiment of Foot (9th Marines) raised in 1740 by Sir Charles Powlett, nephew of the second Duke of Bolton, although he would not have been known as Bolton himself
Breadalbane/Breadalbin - a man Colum sold a horse to. Spelt the first way in Cross Stitch and the second in Outlander (ch. 24)
Brendan Kirby - the son of one of the Lallybroch tenants (DIA, chapter 35)
Butcher Billy - nickname of the Duke of Cumberland - refer below (V, chapter 8)
Bart Clancy - the grandson of one of the secretaries in Frank's History faculty who was brought to work for a month by his grandmother when his mother was sick and who spent his time running up and down the halls shrieking and spilling ink (V, chapter 7)
Bayard Murray Fraser - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 2)
Benedict - Pope Benedict XIV. Jamie notes that Pope Benedict continues to support James Stuart (DIA, chapter 7)
Benjamin Franklin - Claire uses one of Benjamin Franklin's proverbs while she is in Edinburgh and reflects that he probably doesn't have a wide readership in that city (V, chapter 26)
Berta - the housekeeper in Louise de la Tour's country house at Fontainebleu. Berta is a Huguenot (DIA, chapter 26)
Bob McNab - one of Grannie McNab's 16 grandsons, three of whom are named Robert and possibly the same person as Bobby McNab below (Outlander, chapter 28)
Bobby McNab - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart, and possibly the same person as Bob McNab above (DIA, chapter 36)
Bogle - the man who was Governor of Ardsmuir Prison before Harry Quarry (V, chapter 8)
Bolton - Gordon Dunsany was a captain in Bolton's regiment (V, chapter 14) This possibly refers to the 52nd Regiment of Foot (9th Marines) raised in 1740 by Sir Charles Powlett, nephew of the second Duke of Bolton, although he would not have been known as Bolton himself
Breadalbane/Breadalbin - a man Colum sold a horse to. Spelt the first way in Cross Stitch and the second in Outlander (ch. 24)
Brendan Kirby - the son of one of the Lallybroch tenants (DIA, chapter 35)
Butcher Billy - nickname of the Duke of Cumberland - refer below (V, chapter 8)
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Caitlin Maisri Murray - Jenny and Ian's stillborn daughter. She was born prematurely on December 3rd, 1749. Lallybroch was raided by English soldiers the day before and Jamie suspects that the stress of the raid, plus malnutrition due to shortage of food may have caused her premature birth and death (V, chapter 5)
Captain Bledsoe - the commanding officer of Private Dobbs, the English soldier who takes Claire to Colonel Campbell after she is 'rescued' from Dougal's men at the Battle of Falkirk Muir (DIA, chapter 44)
Captain Manson - the supply officer at Claire's field hospital who used to punch the wall when his frustrations became too much to bear (Outlander, chapter 11)
Charles II - the King who commissioned Jacob de Witt to paint the portraits hanging in the Great Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. His portrait is one of the ones that hangs there (DIA, chapter 37)
Charles Gauloise - the young man Jamie fought a duel with over Annalise de Marillac and who married her (DIA, chapter 11)
Charlie Marshall - one of Claire's patients from Pembroke. Charlie Marshall was an American sergeant in the K-9 corps and he told Claire what to do if she should ever be attacked by a dog. Claire puts this knowledge to use when she confronts the wolf outside Wentworth Prison (Outlander, chapter 35)
Clanranald - the chief of the Scottish clan, Clan MacDonald of Clanranald. Clanranald is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34)
Clement - Pope Clement XII. Jamie notes that Pope Clement supported James Stuart for many years (DIA, chapter 7)
Cluny MacPherson - Jacobite Chief of Clan Chattan whose real name was Ewen MacPherson of Cluny. After Culloden, Cluny's house was burnt down and he hid from the English in a well concealed cave which became known as Cluny's cage. Bonnie Prince Charlie hid in the cave with Cluny for about five months, but Cluny lived in the cave for about nine years, eventually escaping to France in 1765. When Jamie shows Claire and Ian a small cave on their way to Lallybroch, Ian wants to know if it's like Cluny's cage (V, chapter 32)
Collinses - When Frank and Claire find the blood on the doorstep in Inverness Frank notes that there is another stain on the Collinses doorstep (Outlander, chapter 1)
Comte de Palles - a French nobleman (DIA, chapter 14)
Comte Medard - the man who owns the land where the hanged Huguenots were strung up (DIA, chapter 26)
Corporal Chisholm - the Scottish soldier Claire treated in WWII who was cowardly about injections (Outlander, chapter 1)
Croesus - Jamie tells Claire that Lord Lovat's third wife, Primrose Campbell, would never have willingly married him, even though he was rich as Croesus (DIA, chapter 40) Croesus was the king of Lydia (in modern day Turkey) from 560-547 BCE and he was extremely wealthy
Currans - Tenants at Lallybroch who arrive for Quarter Day (Outlander, chapter 31)
Captain Bledsoe - the commanding officer of Private Dobbs, the English soldier who takes Claire to Colonel Campbell after she is 'rescued' from Dougal's men at the Battle of Falkirk Muir (DIA, chapter 44)
Captain Manson - the supply officer at Claire's field hospital who used to punch the wall when his frustrations became too much to bear (Outlander, chapter 11)
Charles II - the King who commissioned Jacob de Witt to paint the portraits hanging in the Great Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. His portrait is one of the ones that hangs there (DIA, chapter 37)
Charles Gauloise - the young man Jamie fought a duel with over Annalise de Marillac and who married her (DIA, chapter 11)
Charlie Marshall - one of Claire's patients from Pembroke. Charlie Marshall was an American sergeant in the K-9 corps and he told Claire what to do if she should ever be attacked by a dog. Claire puts this knowledge to use when she confronts the wolf outside Wentworth Prison (Outlander, chapter 35)
Clanranald - the chief of the Scottish clan, Clan MacDonald of Clanranald. Clanranald is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34)
Clement - Pope Clement XII. Jamie notes that Pope Clement supported James Stuart for many years (DIA, chapter 7)
Cluny MacPherson - Jacobite Chief of Clan Chattan whose real name was Ewen MacPherson of Cluny. After Culloden, Cluny's house was burnt down and he hid from the English in a well concealed cave which became known as Cluny's cage. Bonnie Prince Charlie hid in the cave with Cluny for about five months, but Cluny lived in the cave for about nine years, eventually escaping to France in 1765. When Jamie shows Claire and Ian a small cave on their way to Lallybroch, Ian wants to know if it's like Cluny's cage (V, chapter 32)
Collinses - When Frank and Claire find the blood on the doorstep in Inverness Frank notes that there is another stain on the Collinses doorstep (Outlander, chapter 1)
Comte de Palles - a French nobleman (DIA, chapter 14)
Comte Medard - the man who owns the land where the hanged Huguenots were strung up (DIA, chapter 26)
Corporal Chisholm - the Scottish soldier Claire treated in WWII who was cowardly about injections (Outlander, chapter 1)
Croesus - Jamie tells Claire that Lord Lovat's third wife, Primrose Campbell, would never have willingly married him, even though he was rich as Croesus (DIA, chapter 40) Croesus was the king of Lydia (in modern day Turkey) from 560-547 BCE and he was extremely wealthy
Currans - Tenants at Lallybroch who arrive for Quarter Day (Outlander, chapter 31)
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Daphne - one of the prostitutes in Madame Jeanne's brothel in Edinburgh. She is about the same size as Claire (V, chapter 26)
Davie Beaton - the last healer resident at Castle Leoch before Claire arrived. A member of Clan Beaton, a clan of travelling healers of some renown throughout the Highlands, Davie Beaton had died of a fever (Outlander, chapter 7)
Dean of St. Giles College - Frank jokingly tells Claire not to get arrested as the Dean of St. Giles College wouldn't like it (Outlander, chapter 1)
Derick Gowan - a drunken parishioner of the Reverend Wakefield's who drowns in the River Ness (DIA, chapter 4)
Donald Donn - Frank and Claire are told the story of Donald Donn, poet son of McDonald of Bohuntin and lover of Mary Grant, the daughter of the laird of Urquhart Castle, while on their boat trip on Loch Ness (Outlander, chapter 2)
Donald MacDonald - the brother of Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch. He charged the field at Culloden with his brother and was cut down by cannon fire (DIA, chapter 47)
Donald Murray - one of the names on Claire's list of Lallybroch men. Roger found this name listed in the death rolls but it turned out to be a man from a different regiment (DIA, chapter 2)
Dr Bartholomew - the doctor who cared for Claire after she returned through the stones (DIA, chapter 4)
Dr Linklater - when Roger is doing research to find out what happened to Jamie after Culloden he contacts a Dr Linklater (V, chapter 3) This may be a reference to Eric Linklater, the author of the book The Prince in the Heather, in which Roger found the passage that led him to believe that Jamie had survived, although Eric Linklater did not have a doctorate degree.
du Carrefours - a man well known in Paris for being the organiser and leader of a group of people who engaged in acts of vice and depravity associated with the occult. He was tried, imprisoned and burned for his crimes about twenty years before Claire arrived in Paris. Du Carrefours corresponded with Raymond while he was alive, and within weeks of his death, Raymond had set up shop in Paris and was rumoured to have taken over some of du Carrefour's clandestine activities (DIA, chapter 26)
Duchesse de Rouen - a French noblewoman (DIA, chapter 9)
Duke of Argyll - Jack Randall tells Jamie he cannot be released on bond without written clearance from the Duke of Argyll (Outlander, chapter 22)
Duke of Clarence - John Grey notes that Harry Quarry is the Duke of Clarence's nephew (V, chapter 8) The Duke of Clarence is a title awarded to junior members of the English Royal family, but no-one actually held this title in 1753 when John makes this remark
Duke of Cumberland - the soldier in charge of the English forces at Culloden (DIA, chapter 1) He was nicknamed Butcher Billy because of the merciless way he terrorised the Highlanders after their defeat at Culloden (DIA, chapter 4)
Duke of Gordon - the Duke of Gordon's younger brother, Lord Lewis Gordon, came to Edinburgh to pay homage to Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 39)
Duke of Perth - nominally the second Commander in Chief of Charles Stuart's Highland Army (DIA, chapter 36) The Duke of Perth's name was James Drummond
Duncan Joseph Fraser - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 1)
Duncan Gibbons - a Lallybroch tenant who Jenny plans on marrying to the widowed Mrs Murray (V, chapter 5)
Davie Beaton - the last healer resident at Castle Leoch before Claire arrived. A member of Clan Beaton, a clan of travelling healers of some renown throughout the Highlands, Davie Beaton had died of a fever (Outlander, chapter 7)
Dean of St. Giles College - Frank jokingly tells Claire not to get arrested as the Dean of St. Giles College wouldn't like it (Outlander, chapter 1)
Derick Gowan - a drunken parishioner of the Reverend Wakefield's who drowns in the River Ness (DIA, chapter 4)
Donald Donn - Frank and Claire are told the story of Donald Donn, poet son of McDonald of Bohuntin and lover of Mary Grant, the daughter of the laird of Urquhart Castle, while on their boat trip on Loch Ness (Outlander, chapter 2)
Donald MacDonald - the brother of Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch. He charged the field at Culloden with his brother and was cut down by cannon fire (DIA, chapter 47)
Donald Murray - one of the names on Claire's list of Lallybroch men. Roger found this name listed in the death rolls but it turned out to be a man from a different regiment (DIA, chapter 2)
Dr Bartholomew - the doctor who cared for Claire after she returned through the stones (DIA, chapter 4)
Dr Linklater - when Roger is doing research to find out what happened to Jamie after Culloden he contacts a Dr Linklater (V, chapter 3) This may be a reference to Eric Linklater, the author of the book The Prince in the Heather, in which Roger found the passage that led him to believe that Jamie had survived, although Eric Linklater did not have a doctorate degree.
du Carrefours - a man well known in Paris for being the organiser and leader of a group of people who engaged in acts of vice and depravity associated with the occult. He was tried, imprisoned and burned for his crimes about twenty years before Claire arrived in Paris. Du Carrefours corresponded with Raymond while he was alive, and within weeks of his death, Raymond had set up shop in Paris and was rumoured to have taken over some of du Carrefour's clandestine activities (DIA, chapter 26)
Duchesse de Rouen - a French noblewoman (DIA, chapter 9)
Duke of Argyll - Jack Randall tells Jamie he cannot be released on bond without written clearance from the Duke of Argyll (Outlander, chapter 22)
Duke of Clarence - John Grey notes that Harry Quarry is the Duke of Clarence's nephew (V, chapter 8) The Duke of Clarence is a title awarded to junior members of the English Royal family, but no-one actually held this title in 1753 when John makes this remark
Duke of Cumberland - the soldier in charge of the English forces at Culloden (DIA, chapter 1) He was nicknamed Butcher Billy because of the merciless way he terrorised the Highlanders after their defeat at Culloden (DIA, chapter 4)
Duke of Gordon - the Duke of Gordon's younger brother, Lord Lewis Gordon, came to Edinburgh to pay homage to Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 39)
Duke of Perth - nominally the second Commander in Chief of Charles Stuart's Highland Army (DIA, chapter 36) The Duke of Perth's name was James Drummond
Duncan Joseph Fraser - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 1)
Duncan Gibbons - a Lallybroch tenant who Jenny plans on marrying to the widowed Mrs Murray (V, chapter 5)
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Edward Randall - the elder brother of Jack and Alex Randall. He lives on the family estates in Sussex and is married to Stella Adams. They have three daughters - Elizabeth, Daria and Marion (Outlandish Companion) When Alex Randall asks for help after losing his job, Edward sends him a small amount of money but refuses to let him live with his family (DIA, chapter 38)
Edward Teach - Roger wonders if he would look piratical like Edward Teach or Henry Morgan if he had long hair, a beard and an earring (DIA, chapter 2)
Egalabalus - Roman Emperor from 218-222. Some of the coins in the seal's treasure had the head of Egalabalus on them (V, chapter 40)
Elise - Madame Elise is the owner of the brothel where Fergus was born and raised (DIA, chapter 12)
Ellen Fraser - Jamie and Jenny's mother, and sister to Colum, Dougal and Jocasta. She died in childbirth when Jamie was 8 years old. Ellen ran off with Brian Fraser during the Great Gathering called to choose her father's successor. This caused great trouble with the Grant Clan as Malcolm Grant thought he was her suitor. Ellen and Brian hid in a cottage on the edge of the Fraser lands until Ellen was obviously pregnant and nothing could be done to stop their marriage. Ellen is described as being tall, with hair like fire and grey eyes like Colum (Outlander, chapter 24) Ellen was an accomplished painter and many of her paintings hung on the walls of Lallybroch (Outlander, chapter 27)
Ermenegilda Ruiz Alcantara y Meroz - daughter of Mamacita, wife of Don Armando Alcantara, and lover of Father Fogden. Ermenegilda died two years after eloping with Father Fogden and is buried under the bougainvilleas by their hacienda. No villagers will go near the hacienda as they believe it to be haunted by Ermenegilda's ghost (V, chapter 50)
Ewan Fraser - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Ewan MacDonald - Gwyllyn the bard tells a tale of the Wee Folk who tried to steal Ewan MacDonald's wife (Outlander, chapter 8)
Ewan the Armourer - the man at Castle Leoch who made Claire's silver wedding ring (Outlander, chapter 23)
Edward Teach - Roger wonders if he would look piratical like Edward Teach or Henry Morgan if he had long hair, a beard and an earring (DIA, chapter 2)
Egalabalus - Roman Emperor from 218-222. Some of the coins in the seal's treasure had the head of Egalabalus on them (V, chapter 40)
Elise - Madame Elise is the owner of the brothel where Fergus was born and raised (DIA, chapter 12)
Ellen Fraser - Jamie and Jenny's mother, and sister to Colum, Dougal and Jocasta. She died in childbirth when Jamie was 8 years old. Ellen ran off with Brian Fraser during the Great Gathering called to choose her father's successor. This caused great trouble with the Grant Clan as Malcolm Grant thought he was her suitor. Ellen and Brian hid in a cottage on the edge of the Fraser lands until Ellen was obviously pregnant and nothing could be done to stop their marriage. Ellen is described as being tall, with hair like fire and grey eyes like Colum (Outlander, chapter 24) Ellen was an accomplished painter and many of her paintings hung on the walls of Lallybroch (Outlander, chapter 27)
Ermenegilda Ruiz Alcantara y Meroz - daughter of Mamacita, wife of Don Armando Alcantara, and lover of Father Fogden. Ermenegilda died two years after eloping with Father Fogden and is buried under the bougainvilleas by their hacienda. No villagers will go near the hacienda as they believe it to be haunted by Ermenegilda's ghost (V, chapter 50)
Ewan Fraser - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Ewan MacDonald - Gwyllyn the bard tells a tale of the Wee Folk who tried to steal Ewan MacDonald's wife (Outlander, chapter 8)
Ewan the Armourer - the man at Castle Leoch who made Claire's silver wedding ring (Outlander, chapter 23)
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Farquharsons - Jamie discusses with Lord Lovat the prospects of the Farquharsons joining Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 40)
Father Beggs - the priest at the church that Frank attends in Boston. Claire doesn't go with him (V, chapter 3)
Father Hayes - when Ian thinks he's killed the man in Jamie's print shop, Jamie tells Ian that he will take him to Father Hayes to say his confession (V, chapter 27)
Father MacMurtry - a priest who visits the Lallybroch tenants. Mary MacNab called him out to drive the devils out of her son Rabbie after he had an epileptic fit (DIA, chapter 31)
Father McMurtry - the priest who prays over Mrs Coker, the Lallybroch housekeeper when she dies (V, chapter 5) Probably the same person as Father MacMurtry above.
Fergus nic Leodhas - Ian Senior tells Claire he lost his leg in France with Fergus nic Leodhas (Outlander, chapter 26)
Francis MacLean of Dunweary - the man who Horrocks now works for. He has connections with the MacKenzies and sent word of Horrocks to Colum (Outlander, chapter 16)
Father Beggs - the priest at the church that Frank attends in Boston. Claire doesn't go with him (V, chapter 3)
Father Hayes - when Ian thinks he's killed the man in Jamie's print shop, Jamie tells Ian that he will take him to Father Hayes to say his confession (V, chapter 27)
Father MacMurtry - a priest who visits the Lallybroch tenants. Mary MacNab called him out to drive the devils out of her son Rabbie after he had an epileptic fit (DIA, chapter 31)
Father McMurtry - the priest who prays over Mrs Coker, the Lallybroch housekeeper when she dies (V, chapter 5) Probably the same person as Father MacMurtry above.
Fergus nic Leodhas - Ian Senior tells Claire he lost his leg in France with Fergus nic Leodhas (Outlander, chapter 26)
Francis MacLean of Dunweary - the man who Horrocks now works for. He has connections with the MacKenzies and sent word of Horrocks to Colum (Outlander, chapter 16)
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General McAuliffe - when Claire sees Jamie approaching at the witch trial she says she feels the same way General McAuliffe must have felt seeing Patton's army arrive during the Battle of the Bulge (Outlander, chapter 25)
General Hawley - Jack Randall tells Claire he can deliver General Hawley into her hands (DIA, chapter 38) General Henry Hawley was made commander-in-chief of the English forces in December 1745 and led the cavalry at Culloden. The brutality of his dragoons led to him being nicknamed 'Hangman Hawley'
Geoff Murray - a Lallybroch tenant who was shot by the English on his doorstep after Culloden without any formal accusation (V, chapter 4)
Geoffrey McClure - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Geordie McNab - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
George II - Protestant King of Great Britain from 1727-1760, also referred to as the Elector of Hanover
George D'Amerd Fraser Shaw - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 2)
Gerard - Father Gerard is a friar at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupre (Outlander, chapter 40)
Gobelins - French bankers. One of the Gobelin sons may be willing to help Charles Stuart if his investment in the port shipment with the Comte St Germain is successful (DIA, chapter 22)
Gordon Dunsany - the only son of Lord and Lady Dunsany and brother to Isobel and Geneva. Gordon was killed at Prestonpans (V, chapter 14)
Gordons - the surname of some of Jamie's smugglers who were present during the ambush at Arbroath. Presumably brothers and presumably two of them (V, chapter 30)
Grant o' Grants - the chieftain of clan Grant and Lord Lovat's second father-in-law (DIA, chapter 40)
Grisel - when Rupert remarks that he's never heard a woman swear like Claire, one of the other men says that he's never met his Auntie Grisel (Outlander, chapter 3)
General Hawley - Jack Randall tells Claire he can deliver General Hawley into her hands (DIA, chapter 38) General Henry Hawley was made commander-in-chief of the English forces in December 1745 and led the cavalry at Culloden. The brutality of his dragoons led to him being nicknamed 'Hangman Hawley'
Geoff Murray - a Lallybroch tenant who was shot by the English on his doorstep after Culloden without any formal accusation (V, chapter 4)
Geoffrey McClure - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Geordie McNab - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
George II - Protestant King of Great Britain from 1727-1760, also referred to as the Elector of Hanover
George D'Amerd Fraser Shaw - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 2)
Gerard - Father Gerard is a friar at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupre (Outlander, chapter 40)
Gobelins - French bankers. One of the Gobelin sons may be willing to help Charles Stuart if his investment in the port shipment with the Comte St Germain is successful (DIA, chapter 22)
Gordon Dunsany - the only son of Lord and Lady Dunsany and brother to Isobel and Geneva. Gordon was killed at Prestonpans (V, chapter 14)
Gordons - the surname of some of Jamie's smugglers who were present during the ambush at Arbroath. Presumably brothers and presumably two of them (V, chapter 30)
Grant o' Grants - the chieftain of clan Grant and Lord Lovat's second father-in-law (DIA, chapter 40)
Grisel - when Rupert remarks that he's never heard a woman swear like Claire, one of the other men says that he's never met his Auntie Grisel (Outlander, chapter 3)
H
Hadrian - the 14th emperor of Rome who built Hadrian's Wall (Leaf)
Harry - an employee of The World's End tavern who gives Mr Willoughby some brandy (V, chapter 25)
Harty Kepple - the cook's mate on the Porpoise who dies from typhoid (V, chapter 47)
Hector - John Grey's first love. He was a Lieutenant in Hal's regiment and 20 years old when he met John. He is dark haired and blue eyed. John describes him as tall, muscular, fearless and always smiling. Hector was killed at Culloden, hacked to pieces by a Highland broadsword (V, chapter 8)
Henri de la Tour de Rohan - the baby son of Louise de la Tour and probably the son of Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 31)
Henry Montmorency Beauchamp - Claire's father. Jamie suggests that they could name their first child after Claire's father if he is a boy (DIA, chapter 11)
Henry Morgan - Roger wonders if he would look piratical like Edward Teach or Henry Morgan if he had long hair, a beard and an earring (DIA, chapter 2)
Henry of York - Charles Stuart's younger brother. Claire muses that if Charles died there would be little chance of Henry taking his place (DIA, chapter 46)
Hippocrates - Claire feels like bashing Jamie over the head when he won't respond to any of her treatments for seasickness but she thinks Hippocrates would frown on it (V, chapter 41)
Hoechstein - a medical student in the same year as Claire and Joe Abernathy. He coined the nickname 'Lady Jane' for Claire because of her British accent (V, chapter 18)
Horrocks - an English deserter who was an eyewitness to the murder of the garrison soldier that Jamie was accused of and who knows who actually did it (Outlander, chapter 16)
Hugh Cameron - a Cameron chieftain and the brother of Jenny Cameron who led the 300 men of his clan in the march to join Charles Stuart, as Hugh was away at the time. Hugh caught up with his clan later and tried to send his sister back home but she refused to go (DIA, chapter 36)
Hugh Kirby - a Lallybroch tenant who was shot by the English on his doorstep after Culloden without any formal accusation (V, chapter 4)
Hugh MacKenzie of Muldaur - Laoghaire's first husband. Hugh was one of Colum's tacksmen (DIA, chapter 37) Hugh was killed at Culloden (V, chapter 37)
Hugo - Father Hugo was a French priest with the French army when Jamie served with it (DIA, chapter 36)
Harry - an employee of The World's End tavern who gives Mr Willoughby some brandy (V, chapter 25)
Harty Kepple - the cook's mate on the Porpoise who dies from typhoid (V, chapter 47)
Hector - John Grey's first love. He was a Lieutenant in Hal's regiment and 20 years old when he met John. He is dark haired and blue eyed. John describes him as tall, muscular, fearless and always smiling. Hector was killed at Culloden, hacked to pieces by a Highland broadsword (V, chapter 8)
Henri de la Tour de Rohan - the baby son of Louise de la Tour and probably the son of Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 31)
Henry Montmorency Beauchamp - Claire's father. Jamie suggests that they could name their first child after Claire's father if he is a boy (DIA, chapter 11)
Henry Morgan - Roger wonders if he would look piratical like Edward Teach or Henry Morgan if he had long hair, a beard and an earring (DIA, chapter 2)
Henry of York - Charles Stuart's younger brother. Claire muses that if Charles died there would be little chance of Henry taking his place (DIA, chapter 46)
Hippocrates - Claire feels like bashing Jamie over the head when he won't respond to any of her treatments for seasickness but she thinks Hippocrates would frown on it (V, chapter 41)
Hoechstein - a medical student in the same year as Claire and Joe Abernathy. He coined the nickname 'Lady Jane' for Claire because of her British accent (V, chapter 18)
Horrocks - an English deserter who was an eyewitness to the murder of the garrison soldier that Jamie was accused of and who knows who actually did it (Outlander, chapter 16)
Hugh Cameron - a Cameron chieftain and the brother of Jenny Cameron who led the 300 men of his clan in the march to join Charles Stuart, as Hugh was away at the time. Hugh caught up with his clan later and tried to send his sister back home but she refused to go (DIA, chapter 36)
Hugh Kirby - a Lallybroch tenant who was shot by the English on his doorstep after Culloden without any formal accusation (V, chapter 4)
Hugh MacKenzie of Muldaur - Laoghaire's first husband. Hugh was one of Colum's tacksmen (DIA, chapter 37) Hugh was killed at Culloden (V, chapter 37)
Hugo - Father Hugo was a French priest with the French army when Jamie served with it (DIA, chapter 36)
J
Jacob de Witt - the Dutch artist who painted the portraits of 110 Scottish kings and queens hanging on the walls of the Great Gallery in the Palace of Holyroodhouse (DIA, chapter 37)
Jacob MacKenzie - father of Colum, Dougal, Ellen & Jocasta. Jamie's maternal grandfather. (Outlander, chapter 9) Ned Gowan describes him as a "wicked, red auld rascal" and says Jamie is very like him (Outlander, chapter 11)
James I - Ned Gowan refers to law relating to witchcraft during the reign of King James the First when he attempts to delay the witch trial at Cranesmuir (Exile, chapter 9)
James the Pretender - James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the Catholic James II of England, he claimed the throne of Scotland, England and Ireland following the death of his father in 1701. This claim was recognised by his cousin, Louis XIV of France and made him the focus of the Jacobite movement which wanted to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne of Great Britain. He was also referred to as the "King Over the Water", the "Chevalier St George" and the "Old Pretender", to distinguish him from his son, the "Young Pretender", Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Jane - Brianna goes shopping in Inverness for a gift for her friend Jane (DIA, chapter 3)
Jean Philippe Rameau - Jean Philippe Rameau is a French composer and friend of Mother Hildegarde's (DIA, chapter 15)
Jeffries - Tenants at Lallybroch who arrive for Quarter Day (Outlander, chapter 31)
Jensen - when Joe Abernathy says that the bones brought to him belong to a white woman, the man who delivered them is surprised that he can tell such a thing from bones, as he believed that the paper by Jensen on racial physical differences had been disproved (V, chapter 20) This refers to Arthur Jensen who was professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and who had controversial theories on the causes of racial differences in IQ
Jeremy - a boy that Bree has a fight with in her late teens. She breaks her big toe kicking his pick-up truck (V, chapter 42)
Jock - the man who told Ian Snr there was something wrong with the waterwheel up at the mill (Outlander, chapter 28)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Mother Hildegarde corresponds with Bach and has some of his handwritten manuscripts (DIA, chapter 15)
Joe Fraser - a Lallybroch tenant who escaped being shot by the English by living with Jamie for three weeks in his cave after being warned by his wife (V, chapter 4) Joe Fraser is the person Jamie asks to 'betray' him to the English after he decides to give himself up so that the people of Lallybroch can collect the reward for his capture (V, chapter 6) When Young Ian runs away to Edinburgh to join Jamie he gives Joe Fraser a letter for his parents telling them where he's gone but Joe doesn't deliver it until three days after Ian leaves causing great worry for Jenny and Ian (V, chapter 32)
Joe Orr - the person who tells Jenny & Ian that Jamie has married a Sassenach (Outlander, chapter 26)
John Cameron - mentioned by Jamie (Outlander, chapter 24)
John Campbell - leader of the infamous Glencoe Massacre (Outlander, chapter 10)
John Cope - the commander of the English forces who were roundly beaten by the Scots at the Battle of Prestonpans. Claire recalls this fact when relating what she remembers of Scottish history to Jamie (DIA, chapter 36) There is a Scottish folk song about John Cope's defeat called "Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye Waking Yet?"
John Fraser - when Roger is searching the records to find out what happened to the men from Lallybroch he finds six John Frasers on the death roll but can't tell if any of them were from Lallybroch (DIA, chapter 2)
John Graham Fraser - one of the names on Claire's list of Lallybroch men. Roger found this name listed in the death rolls but it turned out to be a man from a different regiment (DIA, chapter 2)
John Jaspers - an able seaman on the Porpoise who dies from typhoid (V, chapter 47)
John Munro - a potential suitor for Ellen MacKenzie whom she would have nothing to do with (Outlander, chapter 24). In Cross Stitch Jocasta is said to have married him but this is an error as she married John Cameron, as correctly stated in Outlander (chapter 24)
John Murray - Ian Snr's father (in Outlander he is named as William Murray, ch. 29) John Murray was an excellent swordsman. He convinced Brian Fraser to allow Jamie to use his sword left-handed and taught him his first strokes. John told his son Ian that his job was to stand to Jamie's right and guard his chief's weaker side in a fight (DIA, chapter 33)
John the cook-boy - mentioned by Jamie (Outlander, chapter 24)
John the stable lad - the boy who gave Hamish advice about the birds and the bees (Outlander, chapter 24)
John Wayne - Claire demands to know if Jamie thinks he's frigging John Wayne when he refuses to take laudanum while she resets his hand (Outlander, chapter 36)
John Wicklow - the man who sends the box of bones to Joe Abernathy for forensic analysis (V, chapter 20)
Josef - Brother Josef is one of the monks at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupre (Outlander, chapter 39)
Joseph Fraser Kirby - one of the Lallybroch tenants (DIA, chapter 35)
Josie - one of the prostitutes in Madame Jeanne's brothel in Edinburgh (V, chapter 25)
Julia Beauchamp - Claire's mother (OCI). Julia has warm golden eyes and a delicate mouth (V, chapter 42)
June Dundee - the daughter of two of the Reverend Wakefield's parishioners, Maggie Brown and William Dundee, who were hastily married a month before her birth (DIA, chapter 4)
Justice Gilliam - Ned Gowan refers to an argument of law relating to witchcraft made by Justice Gilliam when he attempts to delay the witch trial at Cranesmuir (Exile, chapter 9)
Jacob MacKenzie - father of Colum, Dougal, Ellen & Jocasta. Jamie's maternal grandfather. (Outlander, chapter 9) Ned Gowan describes him as a "wicked, red auld rascal" and says Jamie is very like him (Outlander, chapter 11)
James I - Ned Gowan refers to law relating to witchcraft during the reign of King James the First when he attempts to delay the witch trial at Cranesmuir (Exile, chapter 9)
James the Pretender - James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the Catholic James II of England, he claimed the throne of Scotland, England and Ireland following the death of his father in 1701. This claim was recognised by his cousin, Louis XIV of France and made him the focus of the Jacobite movement which wanted to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne of Great Britain. He was also referred to as the "King Over the Water", the "Chevalier St George" and the "Old Pretender", to distinguish him from his son, the "Young Pretender", Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Jane - Brianna goes shopping in Inverness for a gift for her friend Jane (DIA, chapter 3)
Jean Philippe Rameau - Jean Philippe Rameau is a French composer and friend of Mother Hildegarde's (DIA, chapter 15)
Jeffries - Tenants at Lallybroch who arrive for Quarter Day (Outlander, chapter 31)
Jensen - when Joe Abernathy says that the bones brought to him belong to a white woman, the man who delivered them is surprised that he can tell such a thing from bones, as he believed that the paper by Jensen on racial physical differences had been disproved (V, chapter 20) This refers to Arthur Jensen who was professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and who had controversial theories on the causes of racial differences in IQ
Jeremy - a boy that Bree has a fight with in her late teens. She breaks her big toe kicking his pick-up truck (V, chapter 42)
Jock - the man who told Ian Snr there was something wrong with the waterwheel up at the mill (Outlander, chapter 28)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Mother Hildegarde corresponds with Bach and has some of his handwritten manuscripts (DIA, chapter 15)
Joe Fraser - a Lallybroch tenant who escaped being shot by the English by living with Jamie for three weeks in his cave after being warned by his wife (V, chapter 4) Joe Fraser is the person Jamie asks to 'betray' him to the English after he decides to give himself up so that the people of Lallybroch can collect the reward for his capture (V, chapter 6) When Young Ian runs away to Edinburgh to join Jamie he gives Joe Fraser a letter for his parents telling them where he's gone but Joe doesn't deliver it until three days after Ian leaves causing great worry for Jenny and Ian (V, chapter 32)
Joe Orr - the person who tells Jenny & Ian that Jamie has married a Sassenach (Outlander, chapter 26)
John Cameron - mentioned by Jamie (Outlander, chapter 24)
John Campbell - leader of the infamous Glencoe Massacre (Outlander, chapter 10)
John Cope - the commander of the English forces who were roundly beaten by the Scots at the Battle of Prestonpans. Claire recalls this fact when relating what she remembers of Scottish history to Jamie (DIA, chapter 36) There is a Scottish folk song about John Cope's defeat called "Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye Waking Yet?"
John Fraser - when Roger is searching the records to find out what happened to the men from Lallybroch he finds six John Frasers on the death roll but can't tell if any of them were from Lallybroch (DIA, chapter 2)
John Graham Fraser - one of the names on Claire's list of Lallybroch men. Roger found this name listed in the death rolls but it turned out to be a man from a different regiment (DIA, chapter 2)
John Jaspers - an able seaman on the Porpoise who dies from typhoid (V, chapter 47)
John Munro - a potential suitor for Ellen MacKenzie whom she would have nothing to do with (Outlander, chapter 24). In Cross Stitch Jocasta is said to have married him but this is an error as she married John Cameron, as correctly stated in Outlander (chapter 24)
John Murray - Ian Snr's father (in Outlander he is named as William Murray, ch. 29) John Murray was an excellent swordsman. He convinced Brian Fraser to allow Jamie to use his sword left-handed and taught him his first strokes. John told his son Ian that his job was to stand to Jamie's right and guard his chief's weaker side in a fight (DIA, chapter 33)
John the cook-boy - mentioned by Jamie (Outlander, chapter 24)
John the stable lad - the boy who gave Hamish advice about the birds and the bees (Outlander, chapter 24)
John Wayne - Claire demands to know if Jamie thinks he's frigging John Wayne when he refuses to take laudanum while she resets his hand (Outlander, chapter 36)
John Wicklow - the man who sends the box of bones to Joe Abernathy for forensic analysis (V, chapter 20)
Josef - Brother Josef is one of the monks at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupre (Outlander, chapter 39)
Joseph Fraser Kirby - one of the Lallybroch tenants (DIA, chapter 35)
Josie - one of the prostitutes in Madame Jeanne's brothel in Edinburgh (V, chapter 25)
Julia Beauchamp - Claire's mother (OCI). Julia has warm golden eyes and a delicate mouth (V, chapter 42)
June Dundee - the daughter of two of the Reverend Wakefield's parishioners, Maggie Brown and William Dundee, who were hastily married a month before her birth (DIA, chapter 4)
Justice Gilliam - Ned Gowan refers to an argument of law relating to witchcraft made by Justice Gilliam when he attempts to delay the witch trial at Cranesmuir (Exile, chapter 9)
K
Kent - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
King of Prussia - Jamie and Ian hear rumours that the King of Prussia is gathering men and there may be jobs for mercenaries (Virgins) Frederick the Great became King of Prussia in 1740
Kirbys - Lallybroch tenants whom Claire visits (DIA, chapter 31)
Krasner - an apothecary with a store on the Place d'Aloes in Paris (V, chapter 40)
King of Prussia - Jamie and Ian hear rumours that the King of Prussia is gathering men and there may be jobs for mercenaries (Virgins) Frederick the Great became King of Prussia in 1740
Kirbys - Lallybroch tenants whom Claire visits (DIA, chapter 31)
Krasner - an apothecary with a store on the Place d'Aloes in Paris (V, chapter 40)
L
La Couelle - an actress seen in a play who is mentioned in discussion by a group of nobles at Versailles (DIA, chapter 9)
Lachlan Gibbons - a man whose death Maisri the Seer foresaw and was able to prevent (DIA, chapter 41)
Lady Everett - mother of George Everett (V, chapter 8)
Lady Hensley - a friend of Benedicta Grey's (V, chapter 11)
Lady Lovat - Lord Lovat's first wife, Amelia Murray, whom he abducted and forced into marriage (DIA, chapter 40)
Laird of Balnain - Gwyllyn the bard tells the tale of the wife of the Laird of Balnain (Outlander, chapter 8)
Laird of Donibristle - one of the Ardsmuir prisoners tells a long and scurrilous story about the Laird of Donibristle and the hogman's daughter (V, chapter 8)
Lamb - Claire's Uncle Lamb. see Quentin Lambert Beauchamp
LeJeune - a French swordmaster who trained the man Jamie duelled with over Annalise de Marillac (DIA, chapter 11)
Lenny Abernathy - Joe Abernathy's son. he changed his name to Muhammad Ishmael Shabazz III (V, chapter 20)
Leo - Old Leo is a remote relation of Jamie's who is also related to Murtagh (Outlander, chapter 31)
Lewis Gordon - Lord Lewis Gordon, the younger brother of the Duke of Gordon, came to Edinburgh to pay homage to Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 39)
Lieutenant Hanley - a soldier from WWII who was rumoured to be well endowed (DIA, chapter 25)
Lochiel - One of the most prominent Jacobite chieftains. Roger notes that Lochiel's real name was Donald Cameron, but he was known by his place-name so as to distinguish him from all the other Donald Cameron's (DIA, chapter 2) Lochiel escaped to France after Culloden (DIA, chapter 47) Jamie mentions gold being sent to Lochiel in France in the letter that Geneva intercepts and this allows her to blackmail Jamie as it is considered treason to give comfort to the King's enemies (V, chapter 14)
Lord Ancrum - a man who rescued Lord Kilmarnock from Cumberland's men on Culloden Field (DIA, chapter 47)
Lord Dundas - the warehouse in Edinburgh where Jamie stores his smuggled goods appears to be owned by Lord Dundas, but is actually jointly owned by Jamie and Madame Jeanne (V, chapter 41)
Lord Elcho - David Wemyss, Lord Elcho, was a Jacobite army officer. Lord Kilmarnock complains to Claire that Charles Stuart doesn't ask the advice of people like Lord Elcho (DIA, chapter 37)
Lord Ogilvie - David Ogilvie, the eldest son of the Earl of Airlie who arrived to support Charles Stuart with 600 men (DIA, chapter 39)
Lord Pitsligo - Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo was a Jacobite nobleman. Lord Pitsligo provided most of the cavalry in the Highland army (DIA, chapter 39)
Louis XIV - the French king before Louis XV. Jamie refers to him as the Old King (DIA, chapter 15)
Lachlan Gibbons - a man whose death Maisri the Seer foresaw and was able to prevent (DIA, chapter 41)
Lady Everett - mother of George Everett (V, chapter 8)
Lady Hensley - a friend of Benedicta Grey's (V, chapter 11)
Lady Lovat - Lord Lovat's first wife, Amelia Murray, whom he abducted and forced into marriage (DIA, chapter 40)
Laird of Balnain - Gwyllyn the bard tells the tale of the wife of the Laird of Balnain (Outlander, chapter 8)
Laird of Donibristle - one of the Ardsmuir prisoners tells a long and scurrilous story about the Laird of Donibristle and the hogman's daughter (V, chapter 8)
Lamb - Claire's Uncle Lamb. see Quentin Lambert Beauchamp
LeJeune - a French swordmaster who trained the man Jamie duelled with over Annalise de Marillac (DIA, chapter 11)
Lenny Abernathy - Joe Abernathy's son. he changed his name to Muhammad Ishmael Shabazz III (V, chapter 20)
Leo - Old Leo is a remote relation of Jamie's who is also related to Murtagh (Outlander, chapter 31)
Lewis Gordon - Lord Lewis Gordon, the younger brother of the Duke of Gordon, came to Edinburgh to pay homage to Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 39)
Lieutenant Hanley - a soldier from WWII who was rumoured to be well endowed (DIA, chapter 25)
Lochiel - One of the most prominent Jacobite chieftains. Roger notes that Lochiel's real name was Donald Cameron, but he was known by his place-name so as to distinguish him from all the other Donald Cameron's (DIA, chapter 2) Lochiel escaped to France after Culloden (DIA, chapter 47) Jamie mentions gold being sent to Lochiel in France in the letter that Geneva intercepts and this allows her to blackmail Jamie as it is considered treason to give comfort to the King's enemies (V, chapter 14)
Lord Ancrum - a man who rescued Lord Kilmarnock from Cumberland's men on Culloden Field (DIA, chapter 47)
Lord Dundas - the warehouse in Edinburgh where Jamie stores his smuggled goods appears to be owned by Lord Dundas, but is actually jointly owned by Jamie and Madame Jeanne (V, chapter 41)
Lord Elcho - David Wemyss, Lord Elcho, was a Jacobite army officer. Lord Kilmarnock complains to Claire that Charles Stuart doesn't ask the advice of people like Lord Elcho (DIA, chapter 37)
Lord Ogilvie - David Ogilvie, the eldest son of the Earl of Airlie who arrived to support Charles Stuart with 600 men (DIA, chapter 39)
Lord Pitsligo - Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo was a Jacobite nobleman. Lord Pitsligo provided most of the cavalry in the Highland army (DIA, chapter 39)
Louis XIV - the French king before Louis XV. Jamie refers to him as the Old King (DIA, chapter 15)
M
MacAlpine - a man Fergus sells Jamie's contraband brandy to in Edinburgh (V, chapter 28)
Machiavelli - Claire notes that Colum's mind would put Machiavelli to shame (DIA, chapter 9)
Madame de Perignon - a French noblewoman (DIA, chapter 9)
Madame Laserre - Louise de Rohan's personal groomer (DIA, chapter 11)
Madame Rouleaux - an abortionist in Paris. She tells Claire how to make a concoction to bring on a miscarriage (DIA, chapter 13)
Madame Verrue - an apothecary with a store near the Tuileries in Paris (V, chapter 40)
Madeleine - one of the prostitutes at Madame Jeanne's brothel in Edinburgh. Madeleine's sister is murdered by the Edinburgh Fiend (V, chapter 26)
Magdalen Wallace - a woman who lived near Laoghaire and her daughters, whose husband beat her every market day when he got drunk (V, chapter 46)
Maggie Brown - one of the Reverend Wakefield's parishioners who was hastily married to William Dundee (DIA, chapter 4)
Maimonides - a medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher. Jamie studied Maimonides while at university in Paris (Virgins)
Maisie - a friend of Marjorie MacKenzie's who uses fake tan with a pencil seam drawn up the back of her legs to simulate stockings (Leaf)
Manzetti - an Italian banker (DIA, chapter 15)
Margaret Grant - second wife of Lord Lovat (DIA, chapter 40)
Marian Jenkinson - a nurse from Pembroke Hospital who told Claire that the size and shape of a man's thumbs indicated the quality of his more intimate appendage (DIA, chapter 25)
Martin Elginbrod - a man buried in the grounds of the Kirk of the Cannongate in Edinburgh. Claire sits on the memorial atop his grave and finds his epitaph amusing (DIA, chapter 37)
Martin Mack - Jamie plans to see Martin Mack about buying a horse (Outlander, chapter 28)
Mary Grant - Frank and Claire are told the story of Mary Grant, daughter of the laird of Urquhart Castle while on their boat trip on Loch Ness (Outlander, chapter 2)
Mata Hari - Mother Hildegarde wonders who to pray to when Claire is about to ask King Louis to release Jamie from the Bastille, as Claire will be expected to lie with Louis. Claire thinks that Mata Hari could be an option (DIA, chapter 27) Mata Hari was an exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of spying for Germany during WWI and executed by firing squad
Mathilde - Jared Fraser's cook (V, chapter 40)
Maura MacKenzie - Dougal's wife to whom he was married for 24 years and had four daughters with. She dies from a sudden fever (Outlander, chapter 24)
Maurice - a servant at Louise de la Tour's country house in Fontainebleu. Maurice is a Huguenot (DIA, chapter 26)
May - Frank refers to his cousin May sending him a letter with genealogical information about Jack Randall in Outlander, chapter 1
McAllister - a history lecturer at Trinity at Cambridge who gives Roger some information when he is searching for Jamie in the past (V, chapter 7)
McHenry - Gillian Edgars upstairs neighbour in Inverness (DIA, chapter 48)
McMurdo - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Mildred - Mary Hawkins' aunt who lives in Edinburgh. Mary goes to stay with Aunt Mildred after Alex writes to her (DIA, chapter 42)
Monsieur Arouet - refer to Voltaire
Monsieur Clouseau - a prominent Parisian physician (DIA, chapter 27)
Monsieur Geyer - Jamie suspects the man referred to as 'the tailor from Vendome' in one of Charles Stuart's intercepted letters must be Monsieur Geyer (DIA, chapter 13)
Monsieur Parnelle - a French jeweller who also works as a urinoscopist at L'Hopital des Anges. (DIA, chapter 12) A urinoscopist examines urine in an attempt to make medical diagnoses
Mr Buchan - the tobacconist in Inverness (DIA, chapter 2)
Mr Cheesewright - one of Roger's old tutors from when he was at university (V, chapter 3)
Mr Donaldson - Mrs Graham borrows a peacock feather from Mr Donaldson when she dresses up to do fortune-telling at the church fete (Outlander, chapter 2)
Mr Grieves - the factor of Helwater Estate. He lent Jamie books to read (V, chapter 15)
Mr Harding - a representative of the Hand in Hand Assurance Society that had insured Alex Malcolm's printshop. Jamie meets with him after the fire (V, chapter 29)
Mr Haugh - owner of an apothecary shop in Edinburgh (DIA, chapter 38)
Mr Hunter - the surgeon aboard the Porpoise. He died from typhoid (V, chapter 46)
Mr Isaacson - a wealthy Jewish importer whom the Duke of Sandringham selects as a potential husband for Mary Hawkins after her original arranged marriage falls through because of her rape in Paris (DIA, chapter 44)
Mr MacIntosh - the Scotsman who invented the macintosh raincoat. Claire thinks he must have been quite a lily-livered Scot not to be able to endure rain (DIA, chapter 3)
Mr McLeod of Perth - not a real person, but a fictitious person that Jamie uses as a cover for his smuggling activities (V, chapter 27)
Mr Waterford - an Edinburgh banker who handled some of Lallybroch's business and investments (DIA, chapter 42)
Mrs Carson - in Cross Stitch, Frank and Claire are on their way to visit the Carsons when they find the cock's blood on the Carson's doorstep. Claire remarks that she sees Mrs Carson scrub the steps every morning. In Outlander the blood is on Mrs Baird's step. (Cross Stitch only, chapter 1)
Mrs Clancy - one of the secretaries in Frank's History faculty who brought her grandson to work for a month when his mother was sick (V, chapter 7)
Mrs Coker - Mrs Coker had been the housemaid and then housekeeper of Lallybroch from the time Brian and Ellen were married. She dies in November 1752 (V, chapter 5)
Mrs Gibson - a woman in the village of Broch Mordha who gave Jamie some honey balls (DIA, chapter 33)
Mrs Gibson - the Duke of Sandringham's housekeeper (DIA, chapter 44)
Mrs Grossman - Claire and Frank's weekly cleaning lady (V, chapter 3)
Mrs Lincoln - when Jamie tells Claire that he ordered her to stay away from the alcoves during the ball at the Palace of Versailles after having to rescue her from the Vicomte de Rambeau's unwanted advances by dunking him in the fountain, Claire quips "But aside from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" (DIA, chapter 9)
Mrs Munsing - the elderly neighbour who lives next door to Claire and Frank in Boston. When Frank goes looking for Claire after she storms off on the evening he has invited the Dean and his wife to dinner, Frank asks Mrs Munsing to keep an ear out for Brianna while she sleeps while he goes and looks for Claire (V, chapter 3)
Muhammad Ishmael Shabazz III - the name Joe Abernathy's son Lenny takes when he decides he will not have a slave name (V,chapter 20)
Mungo Grant - one of Mrs FitzGibbon's kitchen helpers at Castle Leoch. She worries he's burnt the eels for the oath-taking feast (Outlander, chapter 10)
Machiavelli - Claire notes that Colum's mind would put Machiavelli to shame (DIA, chapter 9)
Madame de Perignon - a French noblewoman (DIA, chapter 9)
Madame Laserre - Louise de Rohan's personal groomer (DIA, chapter 11)
Madame Rouleaux - an abortionist in Paris. She tells Claire how to make a concoction to bring on a miscarriage (DIA, chapter 13)
Madame Verrue - an apothecary with a store near the Tuileries in Paris (V, chapter 40)
Madeleine - one of the prostitutes at Madame Jeanne's brothel in Edinburgh. Madeleine's sister is murdered by the Edinburgh Fiend (V, chapter 26)
Magdalen Wallace - a woman who lived near Laoghaire and her daughters, whose husband beat her every market day when he got drunk (V, chapter 46)
Maggie Brown - one of the Reverend Wakefield's parishioners who was hastily married to William Dundee (DIA, chapter 4)
Maimonides - a medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher. Jamie studied Maimonides while at university in Paris (Virgins)
Maisie - a friend of Marjorie MacKenzie's who uses fake tan with a pencil seam drawn up the back of her legs to simulate stockings (Leaf)
Manzetti - an Italian banker (DIA, chapter 15)
Margaret Grant - second wife of Lord Lovat (DIA, chapter 40)
Marian Jenkinson - a nurse from Pembroke Hospital who told Claire that the size and shape of a man's thumbs indicated the quality of his more intimate appendage (DIA, chapter 25)
Martin Elginbrod - a man buried in the grounds of the Kirk of the Cannongate in Edinburgh. Claire sits on the memorial atop his grave and finds his epitaph amusing (DIA, chapter 37)
Martin Mack - Jamie plans to see Martin Mack about buying a horse (Outlander, chapter 28)
Mary Grant - Frank and Claire are told the story of Mary Grant, daughter of the laird of Urquhart Castle while on their boat trip on Loch Ness (Outlander, chapter 2)
Mata Hari - Mother Hildegarde wonders who to pray to when Claire is about to ask King Louis to release Jamie from the Bastille, as Claire will be expected to lie with Louis. Claire thinks that Mata Hari could be an option (DIA, chapter 27) Mata Hari was an exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of spying for Germany during WWI and executed by firing squad
Mathilde - Jared Fraser's cook (V, chapter 40)
Maura MacKenzie - Dougal's wife to whom he was married for 24 years and had four daughters with. She dies from a sudden fever (Outlander, chapter 24)
Maurice - a servant at Louise de la Tour's country house in Fontainebleu. Maurice is a Huguenot (DIA, chapter 26)
May - Frank refers to his cousin May sending him a letter with genealogical information about Jack Randall in Outlander, chapter 1
McAllister - a history lecturer at Trinity at Cambridge who gives Roger some information when he is searching for Jamie in the past (V, chapter 7)
McHenry - Gillian Edgars upstairs neighbour in Inverness (DIA, chapter 48)
McMurdo - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Mildred - Mary Hawkins' aunt who lives in Edinburgh. Mary goes to stay with Aunt Mildred after Alex writes to her (DIA, chapter 42)
Monsieur Arouet - refer to Voltaire
Monsieur Clouseau - a prominent Parisian physician (DIA, chapter 27)
Monsieur Geyer - Jamie suspects the man referred to as 'the tailor from Vendome' in one of Charles Stuart's intercepted letters must be Monsieur Geyer (DIA, chapter 13)
Monsieur Parnelle - a French jeweller who also works as a urinoscopist at L'Hopital des Anges. (DIA, chapter 12) A urinoscopist examines urine in an attempt to make medical diagnoses
Mr Buchan - the tobacconist in Inverness (DIA, chapter 2)
Mr Cheesewright - one of Roger's old tutors from when he was at university (V, chapter 3)
Mr Donaldson - Mrs Graham borrows a peacock feather from Mr Donaldson when she dresses up to do fortune-telling at the church fete (Outlander, chapter 2)
Mr Grieves - the factor of Helwater Estate. He lent Jamie books to read (V, chapter 15)
Mr Harding - a representative of the Hand in Hand Assurance Society that had insured Alex Malcolm's printshop. Jamie meets with him after the fire (V, chapter 29)
Mr Haugh - owner of an apothecary shop in Edinburgh (DIA, chapter 38)
Mr Hunter - the surgeon aboard the Porpoise. He died from typhoid (V, chapter 46)
Mr Isaacson - a wealthy Jewish importer whom the Duke of Sandringham selects as a potential husband for Mary Hawkins after her original arranged marriage falls through because of her rape in Paris (DIA, chapter 44)
Mr MacIntosh - the Scotsman who invented the macintosh raincoat. Claire thinks he must have been quite a lily-livered Scot not to be able to endure rain (DIA, chapter 3)
Mr McLeod of Perth - not a real person, but a fictitious person that Jamie uses as a cover for his smuggling activities (V, chapter 27)
Mr Waterford - an Edinburgh banker who handled some of Lallybroch's business and investments (DIA, chapter 42)
Mrs Carson - in Cross Stitch, Frank and Claire are on their way to visit the Carsons when they find the cock's blood on the Carson's doorstep. Claire remarks that she sees Mrs Carson scrub the steps every morning. In Outlander the blood is on Mrs Baird's step. (Cross Stitch only, chapter 1)
Mrs Clancy - one of the secretaries in Frank's History faculty who brought her grandson to work for a month when his mother was sick (V, chapter 7)
Mrs Coker - Mrs Coker had been the housemaid and then housekeeper of Lallybroch from the time Brian and Ellen were married. She dies in November 1752 (V, chapter 5)
Mrs Gibson - a woman in the village of Broch Mordha who gave Jamie some honey balls (DIA, chapter 33)
Mrs Gibson - the Duke of Sandringham's housekeeper (DIA, chapter 44)
Mrs Grossman - Claire and Frank's weekly cleaning lady (V, chapter 3)
Mrs Lincoln - when Jamie tells Claire that he ordered her to stay away from the alcoves during the ball at the Palace of Versailles after having to rescue her from the Vicomte de Rambeau's unwanted advances by dunking him in the fountain, Claire quips "But aside from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" (DIA, chapter 9)
Mrs Munsing - the elderly neighbour who lives next door to Claire and Frank in Boston. When Frank goes looking for Claire after she storms off on the evening he has invited the Dean and his wife to dinner, Frank asks Mrs Munsing to keep an ear out for Brianna while she sleeps while he goes and looks for Claire (V, chapter 3)
Muhammad Ishmael Shabazz III - the name Joe Abernathy's son Lenny takes when he decides he will not have a slave name (V,chapter 20)
Mungo Grant - one of Mrs FitzGibbon's kitchen helpers at Castle Leoch. She worries he's burnt the eels for the oath-taking feast (Outlander, chapter 10)
O
O'Brien - one of Charles Stuart's agents who has been making enquiries in Holland about opening negotiations for a shipment of broadswords (DIA, chapter 20)
Oliver Cromwell - Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England. When Claire asks Jenny if there is a priest's hole at Lallybroch, Jenny says no because it was built well after the Protector's time (Outlander, chapter 33)
Oliver Cromwell - Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England. When Claire asks Jenny if there is a priest's hole at Lallybroch, Jenny says no because it was built well after the Protector's time (Outlander, chapter 33)
P
Patton - when Claire sees Jamie approaching at the witch trial she says she feels the same way General McAuliffe must have felt seeing Patton's army arrive during the Battle of the Bulge (Outlander, chapter 25)
Paul Martan - a man in the mercenary company Jamie and Ian serve with in France who loses two fingers off his left hand (Virgins)
Penelope - one of Madame Jeanne's prostitutes who Fergus thinks may be suitable for Ian (V, chapter 28)
Philip of Spain - Philip V who is James Stuart's Bourbon cousin. Jamie notes that James Stuart expects Philip to aid him because of their blood ties (DIA, chapter 7)
Primrose Campbell - Lord Lovat's third wife whom he tricked into marrying. Murtagh is related to Primrose Campbell through his mother's side (DIA, chapter 40)
Paul Martan - a man in the mercenary company Jamie and Ian serve with in France who loses two fingers off his left hand (Virgins)
Penelope - one of Madame Jeanne's prostitutes who Fergus thinks may be suitable for Ian (V, chapter 28)
Philip of Spain - Philip V who is James Stuart's Bourbon cousin. Jamie notes that James Stuart expects Philip to aid him because of their blood ties (DIA, chapter 7)
Primrose Campbell - Lord Lovat's third wife whom he tricked into marrying. Murtagh is related to Primrose Campbell through his mother's side (DIA, chapter 40)
Q
Quentin Lambert Beauchamp - Claire's Uncle Lamb who became her guardian when she was orphaned at the age of 5. He was Claire's father's brother. Uncle Lamb was an archaeologist who worked at archaeological sites all over the world with Claire in tow. Best known for loathing hats on women. (Outlander, chapter 1). Uncle Lamb was killed in the Blitz in WWII (Outlander, chapter 2) He died at the age of 75 and remained trim and taut until the day of his death (V, chapter 19)
R
Reilly - an Irish prisoner who was in the same cell as Jamie at Wentworth (Outlander, chapter 35)
Richards - the Dunsany's butler (V, chapter 14)
Rob McNab - one of Grannie McNab's 16 grandsons, three of whom are named Robert (Outlander, chapter 28)
Robert Fraser - Jamie's stillborn younger brother who died when his mother died in childbirth. According to the Outlander family tree in MOBY his full name was Robert Brian Gordon MacKenzie Fraser
Robert the Bruce - Claire comments that the genealogical firm Scot-Search is "not the sort of place that gave you a family tree showing your relationship to Robert the Bruce and had done with it" (DIA, chapter 3) Robert the Bruce is one of the kings of Scotland whose portrait hangs in the Palace of Holyroodhouse (DIA, chapter 37) When Jamie and Lawrence Stern first met they got into a discussion about Robert the Bruce and spiders (V, chapter 50)
Rodney - a friend of Brianna's when she was about sixteen. He appears in one of the photos of Brianna that Claire took back to Jamie, and Jamie is a bit scandalised by it as the photo is taken at the beach and Bree is wearing a bikini and Jamie doesn't think she should be showing so much skin next to a male (V, chapter 42)
Rufus Murray - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Rutgers - a doctor who works with Joe Abernathy and Claire at Boston General (V, chapter 20)
Ruthven - one of the crewmen aboard the Porpoise (V, chapter 47)
Richards - the Dunsany's butler (V, chapter 14)
Rob McNab - one of Grannie McNab's 16 grandsons, three of whom are named Robert (Outlander, chapter 28)
Robert Fraser - Jamie's stillborn younger brother who died when his mother died in childbirth. According to the Outlander family tree in MOBY his full name was Robert Brian Gordon MacKenzie Fraser
Robert the Bruce - Claire comments that the genealogical firm Scot-Search is "not the sort of place that gave you a family tree showing your relationship to Robert the Bruce and had done with it" (DIA, chapter 3) Robert the Bruce is one of the kings of Scotland whose portrait hangs in the Palace of Holyroodhouse (DIA, chapter 37) When Jamie and Lawrence Stern first met they got into a discussion about Robert the Bruce and spiders (V, chapter 50)
Rodney - a friend of Brianna's when she was about sixteen. He appears in one of the photos of Brianna that Claire took back to Jamie, and Jamie is a bit scandalised by it as the photo is taken at the beach and Bree is wearing a bikini and Jamie doesn't think she should be showing so much skin next to a male (V, chapter 42)
Rufus Murray - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Rutgers - a doctor who works with Joe Abernathy and Claire at Boston General (V, chapter 20)
Ruthven - one of the crewmen aboard the Porpoise (V, chapter 47)
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Samuel Kettrick - a Lallybroch tenant and widower who Jenny plans to marry the Widow Kirby to (V, chapter 5)
Sarah Fraser - Lady Sarah Fraser is one of the Frasers buried at Beauly Priory (DIA, chapter 41)
Sarah Innes - William Buccleigh MacKenzie's adoptive mother (DIA, chapter 47)
Sarah Graham MacKenzie - one of Davie Beaton's patients who was recorded in his log book. She did not survive his treatment and died (Outlander, chapter 7)
Seaforth - Jack Randall wonders if Claire is one of Seaforth's Jacobites (Outlander, chapter 35)
Simenon - a soldier in the French army with Jamie (DIA, chapter 36)
Simon - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Simon MacKimmie - Laoghaire's second husband and the father of Marsali and Joan. Simon is arrested by the English in the years after Culloden and taken to an Edinburgh prison where he dies before coming to trial (V, chapter 37)
Sir Greville - the King's Commissioner on Antigua. Captain Leonard tells Claire that he intends to write to Sir Greville giving testimony to Claire's skill and kindness in nursing the sick men onboard the Porpoise (V, chapter 49)
Sophie - one of Madame Jeanne's prostitutes who Fergus asks to spend the night with (V, chapter 28)
Stella Randall - wife of Jack and Alex's elder brother Edward. She holds very extreme religious beliefs and will not allow Alex to live with them after he is dismissed from the Duke of Sandringham's employ (DIA, chapter 38)
Stewart of Appin - the chieftain of Clan Stewart of Appin. Stewart of Appin is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34) He arrives to join Charles Stuart with 400 men from the shires of Aberdeen and Banff (DIA, chapter 39)
Sarah Fraser - Lady Sarah Fraser is one of the Frasers buried at Beauly Priory (DIA, chapter 41)
Sarah Innes - William Buccleigh MacKenzie's adoptive mother (DIA, chapter 47)
Sarah Graham MacKenzie - one of Davie Beaton's patients who was recorded in his log book. She did not survive his treatment and died (Outlander, chapter 7)
Seaforth - Jack Randall wonders if Claire is one of Seaforth's Jacobites (Outlander, chapter 35)
Simenon - a soldier in the French army with Jamie (DIA, chapter 36)
Simon - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Simon MacKimmie - Laoghaire's second husband and the father of Marsali and Joan. Simon is arrested by the English in the years after Culloden and taken to an Edinburgh prison where he dies before coming to trial (V, chapter 37)
Sir Greville - the King's Commissioner on Antigua. Captain Leonard tells Claire that he intends to write to Sir Greville giving testimony to Claire's skill and kindness in nursing the sick men onboard the Porpoise (V, chapter 49)
Sophie - one of Madame Jeanne's prostitutes who Fergus asks to spend the night with (V, chapter 28)
Stella Randall - wife of Jack and Alex's elder brother Edward. She holds very extreme religious beliefs and will not allow Alex to live with them after he is dismissed from the Duke of Sandringham's employ (DIA, chapter 38)
Stewart of Appin - the chieftain of Clan Stewart of Appin. Stewart of Appin is one of the chieftains who signs his name to Charles Stuart's broadsheet declaring his intention to reclaim the throne (DIA, chapter 34) He arrives to join Charles Stuart with 400 men from the shires of Aberdeen and Banff (DIA, chapter 39)
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Thomas Fraser - one of the Frasers buried at Beauly Priory (DIA, chapter 41)
Thomas MacKenzie - the name of a man whose boat Geillis is accused of sinking at the witch trial (Outlander, chapter 25)
Tilly Lawson - the woman employed to look after Margaret Campbell before she moved to the West Indies (V, chapter 29)
Tom Gage - a customer of Jamie's at his print shop in Edinburgh who has Jacobite leanings and who suggests that Jamie start writing his own pamphlets. On the night of the print shop fire, there is a stack of newly printed pamphlets waiting for Tom Gage to collect the following morning. The pamphlets argue for the repeal of the Stamp Act and encourage civil opposition to it with violence if necessary (V, chapter 27)
Thomas MacKenzie - the name of a man whose boat Geillis is accused of sinking at the witch trial (Outlander, chapter 25)
Tilly Lawson - the woman employed to look after Margaret Campbell before she moved to the West Indies (V, chapter 29)
Tom Gage - a customer of Jamie's at his print shop in Edinburgh who has Jacobite leanings and who suggests that Jamie start writing his own pamphlets. On the night of the print shop fire, there is a stack of newly printed pamphlets waiting for Tom Gage to collect the following morning. The pamphlets argue for the repeal of the Stamp Act and encourage civil opposition to it with violence if necessary (V, chapter 27)
U
Uncle Lamb - see Quentin Lambert Beauchamp
V
Vicomte de Busca - rumoured to be part of Les Disciples (DIA, chapter 21)
Victoria - Claire notes that it was Queen Victoria's seal of approval that led to the Highlands becoming a popular tourist destination (DIA, chapter 3)
Voltaire - John asks Jamie if he has encountered the dramatic works of Voltaire and Jamie replies that he entertained Voltaire at his dinner table on more than one occasion (V, chapter 10) Voltaire was a French writer, philosopher and freemason. His real name was Francois-Marie Arouet
Victoria - Claire notes that it was Queen Victoria's seal of approval that led to the Highlands becoming a popular tourist destination (DIA, chapter 3)
Voltaire - John asks Jamie if he has encountered the dramatic works of Voltaire and Jamie replies that he entertained Voltaire at his dinner table on more than one occasion (V, chapter 10) Voltaire was a French writer, philosopher and freemason. His real name was Francois-Marie Arouet
W
Wally - one of Jamie's smuggling band in Edinburgh (V, chapter 26)
Walter Cronkite - Joe Abernathy tried to speak like Walter Cronkite at medical school to give himself an air of authority (V, chapter 18) Walter Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist and news anchorman
Wan-Mei - the second wife of the Imperial Emperor of China who wishes Yi Tien Cho to join her household, which would require him to become a eunuch (V, chapter 45)
Weston Frasers - Lallybroch tenants whom Claire visits (DIA, chapter 31)
Wicklow - a shopkeeper in Inverness who Brianna buys butter from (V, chapter 3)
Will Fraser - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
William Dundee - one of the Reverend Wakefield's parishioners who was hastily married to Maggie Brown (DIA, chapter 4)
William Chisholm Fraser - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 2)
William Fraser - Jamie and Jenny's elder brother who died from smallpox at the age of 11. According to the Outlander family tree published in MOBY his full name was William Simon Murtagh MacKenzie Fraser. He was red-headed like Jamie. Willy carved Jamie a small snake from cherrywood which he gave to him for his 5th birthday (Outlander, chapter 27)
William John MacKenzie - William Buccleigh MacKenzie's adoptive father (DIA, chapter 47)
William Buccleigh MacKenzie - the son of William John MacKenzie and Sarah Innes who died at the age of two months. William and Sarah then adopted Geillis and Dougal's son and gave him the name of their dead baby (DIA, chapter 47)
William Murray - the name of Ian Snr's father in Outlander (chapter 29). In DIA his name becomes John. Refer to John Murray
William Murray - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart and possibly the same person as Willie Murray below (DIA, chapter 36)
William of Orange - William III, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1689-1702. Jamie tells Claire that after Lord Lovat swore fealty to James Stuart, he turned round and went straight to William of Orange (DIA, chapter 40)
William Randall - Claire names William Randall as Jack Randall's elder brother in Outlander, chapter 40, but elsewhere he is called Edward. Claire may have been mis-remembering
William Watson - a man buried in the St Kilda kirkyard. Brianna and Roger stop to read the inscription on his gravestone which begins "For here lies Bailie William Watson". A bailie is a Scottish municipal magistrate (DIA, chapter 5)
Williamson - The American Claire treated during the war from whom she picked up the expression "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ" (Outlander, chapter 1)
Willie McNab - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Willie Murray/Willy Murray - a tenant at Lallybroch who arrives for Quarter Day (Outlander/Cross Stitch, chapter 31)
Winston Churchill - Joe Abernathy explains that the other medical students have nicknamed Claire 'Lady Jane' because she sounds like Winston Churchill, if Winston Churchill was a lady (V, chapter 18)
Wu-Xien - a Chinese Mandarin who recognises Yi Tien Cho's talents and takes him under his wing (V, chapter 45)
Walter Cronkite - Joe Abernathy tried to speak like Walter Cronkite at medical school to give himself an air of authority (V, chapter 18) Walter Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist and news anchorman
Wan-Mei - the second wife of the Imperial Emperor of China who wishes Yi Tien Cho to join her household, which would require him to become a eunuch (V, chapter 45)
Weston Frasers - Lallybroch tenants whom Claire visits (DIA, chapter 31)
Wicklow - a shopkeeper in Inverness who Brianna buys butter from (V, chapter 3)
Will Fraser - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
William Dundee - one of the Reverend Wakefield's parishioners who was hastily married to Maggie Brown (DIA, chapter 4)
William Chisholm Fraser - one of the men listed on the muster roll of the Master of Lovat's regiment (V, chapter 2)
William Fraser - Jamie and Jenny's elder brother who died from smallpox at the age of 11. According to the Outlander family tree published in MOBY his full name was William Simon Murtagh MacKenzie Fraser. He was red-headed like Jamie. Willy carved Jamie a small snake from cherrywood which he gave to him for his 5th birthday (Outlander, chapter 27)
William John MacKenzie - William Buccleigh MacKenzie's adoptive father (DIA, chapter 47)
William Buccleigh MacKenzie - the son of William John MacKenzie and Sarah Innes who died at the age of two months. William and Sarah then adopted Geillis and Dougal's son and gave him the name of their dead baby (DIA, chapter 47)
William Murray - the name of Ian Snr's father in Outlander (chapter 29). In DIA his name becomes John. Refer to John Murray
William Murray - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart and possibly the same person as Willie Murray below (DIA, chapter 36)
William of Orange - William III, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1689-1702. Jamie tells Claire that after Lord Lovat swore fealty to James Stuart, he turned round and went straight to William of Orange (DIA, chapter 40)
William Randall - Claire names William Randall as Jack Randall's elder brother in Outlander, chapter 40, but elsewhere he is called Edward. Claire may have been mis-remembering
William Watson - a man buried in the St Kilda kirkyard. Brianna and Roger stop to read the inscription on his gravestone which begins "For here lies Bailie William Watson". A bailie is a Scottish municipal magistrate (DIA, chapter 5)
Williamson - The American Claire treated during the war from whom she picked up the expression "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ" (Outlander, chapter 1)
Willie McNab - one of Jamie's Lallybroch men who accompanies him to join Charles Stuart (DIA, chapter 36)
Willie Murray/Willy Murray - a tenant at Lallybroch who arrives for Quarter Day (Outlander/Cross Stitch, chapter 31)
Winston Churchill - Joe Abernathy explains that the other medical students have nicknamed Claire 'Lady Jane' because she sounds like Winston Churchill, if Winston Churchill was a lady (V, chapter 18)
Wu-Xien - a Chinese Mandarin who recognises Yi Tien Cho's talents and takes him under his wing (V, chapter 45)