The Outlandish Companion - Diana Gabaldon [90]
Father Beggs—pastor of St. Finbar’s, the parish church in Boston that Frank attends, and where Claire goes in the middle of the night, seeking peace and comfort. [Voyager]
† Pope Benedict—supporter of the Catholic Stuarts; succeeded Clement. [Dragonfly]
Father Benin—a priest accompanying the Jacobite troops at Prestonpans. [Dragonfly]
Hugh Berowne—a tax collector who, at the instigation of Sergeant Murchison, falsely accuses Fergus of nonpayment of tax, and confiscates his horse, saddle, and bridle in payment. [Drums]
Berta—one of Louise de Rohan’s servants at Fontainebleau; a secret Huguenot, and one of Pastor Laurent’s parishioners. [Dragonfly]
Berthe—Gabrielle’s daughter by her first husband, a French trapper. [Drums]
Betty—one of Jocasta Cameron’s house-slaves. [Drums]
“Black Jack” Randall (aka Jonathan Wolverton Randall)—see under “R.”
Colonel Bogle (m)—Harry Quarry’s predecessor as Governor of Ardsmuir Prison; put Jamie Fraser in irons. [Voyager]
Madame Bonheur (m)—a midwife at L’Hôpital des Anges. [Dragonfly]
Stephen Bonnet—an Irishman orphaned young, Stephen Bonnet made his way in life by any means possible, consulting no one’s desires save his own. Condemned to hanging for piracy, he escaped the gallows in Charleston, and fell in with the Frasers by hiding in the wagon bearing the body of Gavin Hayes. Prevailing upon their kindness to aid his escape, he later repaid their generosity by ambushing their party on the river, stealing both their gemstones and Claire’s gold wedding ring. Bonnet uses one of the gems to finance his acquisition of the Gloriana, a small cargo ship on which Roger MacKenzie later sails to America. He meets Brianna Randall Fraser in an inn in Wilmington, where she spots her mother’s ring. When Brianna goes to the Gloriana to try to buy back the ring—and learn what has happened to her mother—Bonnet gives her the ring, but at his own price—rape. Later, when Bonnet is captured, Brianna—believing him about to be executed—tells him that the child she is carrying is his; Bonnet escapes, giving Brianna a black diamond for the maintenance of the child he thinks is his. [Drums]
Gayle Bosworthy—Brianna’s best friend in college. A great admirer of men in kilts. [Drums]
† Bouassa—a notorious maroon; executed for rebellion. His loa comes, summoned by Ishmael, to give his blessing to the slaves who plot escape from Jamaica. [Voyager]
Comtesse de Brabant—member of the court at Versailles. [Dragonfly]
Edwina Briggs—dean of the college at Oxford where Roger Wakefield is employed. [Drums]
Bruno (aka Theobald)—doorkeeper and bouncer at Madame Jeanne’s brothel in Edinburgh. [Voyager]
Mrs. Buchanan—the Inverness postmistress; member of the dancing ladies on Craigh na Dun. [Outlander]
Corporal Brame2—one of Lord John Grey’s soldiers at Ardsmuir. [Voyager]
bridie seller—old woman who sells Brianna hot pasties (“bridies”) at the hiring-hall in Inverness. [Drums]
Brutus—the horse Brianna acquires after traveling through the stones, to carry her to Lallybroch. [Drums]
Ernie Buchan—Fiona’s fiancé, who views her relationship with Roger Wakefield MacKenzie with considerable suspicion. [Drums]
Maisri Buchanan.—A mother whom Claire counsels on nutrition, at the Gathering. [Drums]
Mr. Buchanan—a Scottish plantation owner in North Carolina, a social acquaintance of Jocasta Cameron. [Drums]
Vicomte de Busca (m)—young man rumored to be one of Les Disciples de Mal. [Dragonfly]
Davie Byrnes—the incompetent and drunken overseer of the timber camp and sawmill operations at River Run. Responsible for the gruesome lynching death of a slave at the sawmill, Byrnes dies himself of tetanus as a result of wounds sustained in the precipitating incident. [Drums]
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† Archie Cameron (m)—brother to Lochiel; a physician who attended the Highland army; later executed for his part in the Rising. [Dragonfly]
Ewan Cameron—a Jacobite soldier; one