The Outlandish Companion - Diana Gabaldon [92]
† William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (m)—leader of King George’s forces, bent on subduing the Jacobite Rising and stamping out its remains. [Dragonfly, Voyager]
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Daft Joey (m)—a witless beggarman, lured into the cellar of a great house being built in Inverness, crushed to death with the cornerstone to serve as a blood sacrifice for the foundation. [Outlander, Drums]
Myra Dalrymple (m)—resident gossip in Kingston. [Voyager]
Albert Danton—the Duke of Sandringham’s valet; leader of the gang that attacks Claire and Mary Hawkins in the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honoré. [Dragonfly]
Danu (m)—the Celtic goddess of luck. [Drums]
Daphne (m)—Edinburgh prostitute whose dress Claire borrows, after her own is damaged in a pub brawl. [Voyager]
Reverend Davis (m)—a Kingston minister. [Voyager]
Corporal Dawes (m)—the soldier at Ardsmuir, charged with flogging Jamie Fraser for possession of contraband tartan. [Voyager]
Mr. Dixon—paymaster of the Gloriana.
Mr. Justice Dodgson (m)—a corrupt justice, the victim of violence imposed by a gang of Regulators. [Drums]
Drusus—one of Jocasta’s slaves. [Drums]
Duff—a hand on the Gloriana. [Drums]
Arthur Duncan—the Procurator Fiscal in Cranesmuir; Geillis Duncan’s husband; a murder victim, he is poisoned with cyanide at Colum’s dinner party. [Outlander]
Geillis Duncan (aka Gillian Edgars)— wife of the Procurator Fiscal in Cranesmuir; Claire’s friend; a suspected witch. Sentenced to burning, she was temporarily reprieved by reason of pregnancy, and bore a child to Dougal MacKenzie. Later escaped to Paris with Dougal’s help, and made her way by various means to the West Indies, where her attempt to travel back to her own time led her to a final confrontation with Claire in the cave of Abandawe. [All]
† Dundas (m)—Sir Henry Dundas, an important figure in Scottish politics during the latter half of the eighteenth century. [Voyager]
Geneva Dunsany—eldest daughter of the Dunsany family of Helwater; taking a fancy to Jamie Fraser, she forces him to her bed by means of blackmail, and bears a son (William) to him, dying soon after giving birth. [Voyager]
Gordon Dunsany (m)—son of Lord Dunsany and heir to Helwater; killed in the Rising. A friend of Lord John Grey’s. [Voyager]
Isobel Dunsany—younger daughter of Lord and Lady Dunsany of Helwater, younger sister to Geneva Dunsany. Following the death of her sister in childbed, she becomes foster mother to her sister’s child, William, and later marries Lord John Grey, who thus becomes the boy’s stepfather and guardian. [Drums]
Lady Dunsany—mother of Geneva and Isobel, grandmother of Willie, whose parentage she may suspect. She offers to arrange Jamie’s pardon, so that he can leave Helwater. [Drums]
Lord Dunsany—a minor—and rather impoverished—aristocrat, who accepts Jamie Fraser (under the alias Alexander MacKenzie) as a groom on his estate, Helwater, as a favor to Lord John Grey. He arranged his daughter Geneva’s marriage to the elderly Earl of Ellesmere, hoping that this would ensure her shortly becoming a wealthy young widow— and a countess. [Drums]
Corporal Dunstable—one of John Greys soldiers at Ardsmuir, responsible for searching the prisoners’ quarters for contraband. [Voyager]
Mrs. Dunvegan (m)—wife of the minister of the Old Church in Inverness; an acquaintance of Roger Wakefield. [Drums]
† M. Duverney the elder—Louis XV’s Minister of Finance. [Dragonfly]
† M. Duverney the younger—son of Duverney the elder; a successful banker. [Dragonfly]
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Gillian Edgars (aka Geillis Duncan)—A mysterious young woman with a monomania, and the ability to travel through the stones. [All]
† Lord Elcho (m)—one of the Jacobite earls.
Madame Elise—proprietor of the brothel in which Fergus was born. [Dragonfly]
Lord Ellesmere—husband to Geneva Dunsany; putative father of William, Viscount Ashness. Killed by Jamie Fraser while threatening the life of the newborn infant whom he knows to be the result of cuckoldry. [Voyager]
Eutroclus—a black freeman, serving as hand on the riverboat Sally