The Outlandish Companion - Diana Gabaldon [104]
Alexander Randall—younger brother of Jonathan Randall; a curate in the employ of the Duke of Sandringham. Mary Hawkins’s lover, and the father of her child. [Dragonfly]
Brianna Ellen Randall—daughter of Claire and Frank Randall—and of Claire and Jamie Fraser. Later married to Roger MacKenzie, mother of John Jeremiah Alexander Fraser MacKenzie. [Dragonfly, Voyager, Drums]
Claire Beauchamp Randall—wife of Frank Randall. A nurse during World War II, she later becomes chief of surgery at a large Boston hospital. Later widowed, but a successful doctor and mother, she brings her daughter to the Scottish Highlands, returning after an absence of twenty years, to reveal the secrets of the past. [All]
Franklin Wolverton Randall—Claire’s husband, Frank; a professional historian with a deep interest in the eighteenth century. [All]
Jonathan Wolverton Randall (“Black Jack”)—Frank Randall’s six-times great-grandfather, a captain in the English army; a man of violence and perverse desires. [Outlander, Dragonfly, Voyager]
William Randall (m)—eldest of the three Randall brothers; a minor baronet, from Sussex. [Voyager]
Mr. Ransom—a broker who handles the sale of indentured servants in Inverness. [Drums]
Dr. Daniel Rawlings—original owner of the medicine chest Jamie gives Claire as an anniversary present. Dr. Rawlings disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving his instruments and casebook behind. [Drums]
Master Raymond—a small, mysterious apothecary, who seems to know a great deal regarding secret matters, both political and occult. [Dragonfly]
Reilly the Leinsterman (m)—fellow prisoner with Jamie Fraser at Wentworth; expert in lock-picking. [Outlander]
Roberts—one of Stephen Bonnet’s associates, who with his companions, robs the Frasers on their way upriver to Cross Creek. [Drums]
Mme. Melisande Robicheaux—Geillis Duncan’s alias, while living in Paris following her escape from Cranesmuir. See also “Gillian Edgars,” “Geillis Duncan,” and “Mrs. Abernathy.” [Voyager]
Janet Robinson—witness at witch-trial. [Outlander]
Roderick (and Willie)—stable-lads. [Outlander]
Rodney (m)—a twentieth-century teenage acquaintance of Brianna’s, whose appearance in a photograph rouses Jamie’s fatherly suspicions. [Voyager]
†Jules de Rohan (m)—cuckolded husband of Louise, Princesse de Rohan. [Dragonfly]
†Princesse Louise de La Tour de Rohan (aka Marie-Louise-Henriette-Jeanne de La Tour d’Auvergne). Claire’s best friend in Paris; Charles Stuart’s lover, and mother of his (supposed) son, Henri. [Dragonfly]
Rollo—Young Ian’s dog. Rollo is a gigantic wolf-cross, acquired by Ian as a gambling prize in Charleston. Large, fierce, and devoted to his master, he thrives in the wilderness, and accompanies his master to a new life with the Iroquois. [Drums]
Sister Marie Romaine—Brianna’s fifth-grade teacher.13 [Drums]
Ross the smith—a blacksmith from Broch Mordha. [Dragonfly]
†Mayer Rothschild,14 15—A traveling numismatist and coin dealer from Frankfurt, who meets Jamie and Claire at the house on the Rue Tremoulins in Paris, where he gives them the clue (the gold tetradrachm) that connects the Duke of Sandringham with a Jacobite plot. [Voyager]
Duchesse de Rouen—a member of the French nobility. [Dragonfly]
Rufus—an obstreperous slave, frequently in trouble, whose calamitous career ends with a fight with Byrnes, the overseer. By the law of bloodshed, the slave is condemned to death, but he is lynched by Byrnes and his companions before the law can deal with him. Arriving too late to prevent the incident, and unable to save the man, Claire administers atropine, a deadly poison, to hasten his death and cut short his suffering. [Drums]
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Clarence Marylebone (Duke of Sandringham)—an acquaintance of Colum MacKenzie’s; an English noble whose political sympathies and sexual preferences are highly suspect; he dabbles in coin collecting, murder, and politics, and eventually pays the price of his chicanery, at the hands of Murtagh FitzGibbons Fraser.