Quiet Air—The sachem (a sort of under-chief) in one of the Cherokee villages; he sees potential in Jamie’s temperamental stallion, Gideon, and offers three deerskins for the chance to breed his spotted mare to him. [Ashes]
x Quincy, Josiah—(1744–1775) American Patriot and Boston lawyer. While he was outspoken against the British suppression and injustices to the American people, he, along with John Adams, defended Captain Preston and the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, securing an acquittal for the men by proving they fired upon the Boston mob in self-defense. Not all the accused were acquitted, though; Bobby Higgins was one of the soldiers convicted of murder and consequently branded in the face with the letter “M.” Later, Lord John writes to Jamie that he suspects Quincy of being the man who gave Jamie’s name to the Committees of Correspondence. [Ashes]
Quinn, Tobias (Tobias Mac Gréagair Quinn)—A mysterious Irishman and Jacobite, he knew Jamie during the time before the Rising of 1745 but escaped the tragedy of Culloden. He and others have kept alive the dream of Charles Stuart as the ruler of England, and he tries to draw Jamie back into plotting for another Jacobite uprising, an invitation Jamie wisely refuses to accept. His caution is for naught, though, when Hal (Duke of Pardloe) forces Lord John and Jamie to go together to Ireland to arrest Gerald Siverly. Tobias, delighted by this development, meets them in Ireland, where he tries repeatedly to lure Jamie into pursuing his schemes. [SP]
Quinton, Lady—One of London’s society matrons and hostess of a party that Olivia, Lord John’s young cousin, attends. [PM]
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Racket, Granny—Local (Northumbrian) healer and herb woman. [MOBY]
Rains Hard—One of the Montauk Five, a group of twentieth-century Native American purists who disappeared in 1968. [Fiery Cross]
Raintree, Mr.—A resident of Cross Creek, he purchases the apothecary’s wagon horse, Jack, the particular pet of Miranda Bogues, daughter of the apothecary. [Ashes]
Rakoczy, Paul—An RAF pilot who has trained with Jerry; he is surprised by an aerial move and exchanges Polish curses with Jerry over the maneuver. [LW]
Rakoczy, Paul—The name used by the mysterious Comte St. Germain while in Paris during 1778; the family name appears again during the 1940s, but we don’t know whether these are two different men with the same name or perhaps the time-traveling Comte in a new adventure. [LW]
Ramsay, Captain—One of General Howe’s senior staff. He is to debrief William regarding his intelligencing expedition after William reveals key information regarding the Continental forces on Long Island in a staff meeting. [Echo]
Randall, Alexander—Younger brother of Black Jack Randall. Lover of Mary Hawkins; he dies of consumption before their son, Denys, is born. [Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber]
Randall, “Black Jack”—See “Jonathan Wolverton Randall.”
Randall, Denys—See “Denys Randall-Isaacs.”
Randall, Franklin Wolverton; Frank—Claire’s first husband; former WWII agent of Britain’s MI6 and a professional historian with a deep interest in the eighteenth century; stepfather to Claire’s (and Jamie’s) daughter, Brianna. Originally disbelieving Claire’s story after her return from the past, he later has Claire swear not to tell Brianna anything of her life in the past or of Brianna’s biological father—at least not until after his own death. He leaves Brianna a clue to her real father’s identity and also writes her letters that tell the truth—about a lot of things. [All]
Randall, Jonathan Wolverton, Captain (aka Black Jack)—Frank Randall’s five-times great-grandfather, a captain in the English army, and a man of violence and perverse desires, with a special place in his black heart for Jamie Fraser. He marries Mary Hawkins, the pregnant lover of his dying brother, Alex, in Paris, with Jamie and Claire as witnesses. Black Jack dies at Culloden Moor on April 16, 1746. [All]
Randall-Isaacs, Denys, Captain (aka Denys Randall)—A young British officer William is assigned to accompany to Canada but who has his own agenda. He is the child of Mary Hawkins and Alex Randall, though Jonathan (Black Jack) Randall marries the pregnant Mary while Alex is dying of consumption and so becomes Denys’s stepfather. After Black Jack is killed at Culloden, Mary marries a Jewish merchant named Robert Isaacs. Denys adopts his stepfather’s name as a mark of respect but drops it after his stepfather’s death, as a Jewish name is a handicap to an up-and-coming young officer. [Echo, MOBY]
Ransom, William Clarence Henry George; Ninth Earl of Ellesmere; Viscount Ashness; Baron Derwent—The heir of Lords Ellesmere and Dunsany; illegitimate son of James Fraser and Geneva Dunsany. William was raised by his stepmother/aunt Isobel Dunsany and stepfather Lord John Grey. He harbors fond memories of the Scottish groom, “Mac,” who was his friend and mentor through early childhood. These memories are substantially impaired when William meets Jamie face-to-face in Philadelphia and is struck—as everyone who sees them together is—by the startling resemblance. All Is Made Clear—or so William thinks, and he’s both shocked, humiliated, and enraged when he realizes that not only is he not carrying the noble blood of the Ellesmere line—rather, that of a Scottish criminal and traitor—but that everyone he’s ever trusted has been lying to him his entire life. His efforts to get a grip on his temper and his perspective and decide what the bloody hell to do about the situation are further disturbed by conflict with his newfound cousin Ian, who is betrothed to Rachel Hunter, a Quaker girl that William is strongly attracted to. One distraction from his troubles, though, comes in the form of a young whore named Jane Pocock and her younger sister, Frances (Fanny). William’s attempts to protect the girls and see them to safety come to naught when Jane is arrested for the murder of Captain Harkness (a sadistic brothel customer who threatened Fanny). Desperate, William appeals to the last resource he has—his father. Jamie instantly joins William in an attempt to rescue Jane, but they arrive too late; despairing and unable to face the prospect of hanging, Jane has cut her wrists. Grimly desolate, William entrusts Fanny to the care of Jamie and Claire, and he leaves, presumably to pick up the pieces of his life. [All, SP]
Rastus—One of Farquard Cambell’s slaves. Claire treats the hand he burns badly while removing grilled fowl from a skewer during Jocasta and Duncan’s wedding feast. [Fiery Cross]
Raven, Mrs.—The childless wife of a New Hampshire militia officer, she becomes Claire’s “assistant” while the Continental army is at Ticonderoga; she has a ghoulish fascination with the morbid side of Claire’s medical duties but is competent enough not to faint or become sick while Claire is operating. She takes her own life out of morbid fear when she thinks Indians are attacking. [Echo]
Rawlings, Daniel, Dr.—Original owner of the medicine chest Jamie gives to Claire. He disappears under mysterious circumstances; it is later discovered that he was murdered and placed in Hector Cameron’s tomb after finding the stash of gold Jocasta Cameron had kept hidden for thirty years. [Fiery Cross, Ashes, Echo]
Rawlings, David, Dr.—Twin brother to Daniel Rawlings. Claire meets him after the Battle of Bemis Heights, where he was a British doctor in attendance at the death of General Simon Fraser. [Echo]
Raymond—A great shaman reputed to have the ability to transform himself into birds or animals, and one who could walk through time; he taught the Montauk Five about traveling through time, warning them that some sort of gemstone would aid as protection during their passage; Claire suspects he could be Master Raymond (Maître Raymond), whom she met in Paris prior to Culloden. [Fiery Cross, Ashes, MOBY]
Rendill, Lieutenant—Soldier helping William on the quay during the evacuation of Philadelphia. [MOBY]
Rennie, Andrew—See “Raphael Wattiswade.” [SP]
Rennie, Mina—Minnie Grey’s alias during the Rising, when she was a Jacobite spy. [SP]
Ricasoli, Signor—One of the slave buyers expected to attend the special sale, which included Brianna, at Stephen Bonnet’s coastal hideout on Ocracoke Island. [Ashes]
Richards, Johanna—A young mother on the Ridge who has lost
two children to croup; Brianna is very concerned when Jem comes down with croup at River Run during Jocasta’s wedding celebration. [Fiery Cross]
Richardson, Ezekiel, Captain—A British spy, Richardson asks William if he would like to be a special messenger to carry special dispatches to General Howe, dangling a chance for inclusion on Howe’s staff upon his arrival in Halifax. William sees the mission as one filled with adventure, but in a letter, Hal warns William that he really shouldn’t be involved with Richardson. He shouldn’t: Richardson sends him on a mission to Dismal Town (in the center of the Dismal Swamp) that nearly gets him killed—and would indeed have gotten him killed, had he actually got there. He later tries to inveigle William into further intelligence work, but William wisely resists. Richardson reappears unexpectedly in Savannah, wearing a Continental uniform, and tries to suborn Claire with various threats, among these the revelation that he knows what Lord John is—i.e., a homosexual. Claire rejects his overtures emphatically but is obliged to tell John of the threat. [Echo, MOBY]
Richardson, Governor—A fictional character based on a factual incident; during the uproar regarding the Stamp Acts of 1765, an effigy of Boston’s Stamp Commissioner Andrew Oliver was hung from the Liberty Tree near Boston Common and burned. [Fiery Cross]
x Richelieu, Duc de—(1696–1788) Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, diplomat, statesman, and soldier. Richelieu rose in his military career to become marshal of France; after taking command of the French forces during the Seven Years’ War, he failed to conquer Hanover, retreating instead, and was relieved of his command. [BL]
Richie and Jed—Two of Wendigo Donner’s henchmen, they are helping him ransack the Big House, looking for a cache of jewels, when fire breaks out and destroys the house on Fraser’s Ridge. [Ashes]
x Richmond, Private Billy—(1763–1829) A former slave assigned the duty of securing the hangman’s rope for Nathan Hale’s execution. At only thirteen years of age, Richmond may not have realized that the new rope would stretch, preventing a hard drop and clean break of the neck. Instead, Hale suffered death by suffocation while the crowd watched. [Echo]
Ridley—Young man who shows Roger and Buck the location of the standing stones that they suspect Jerry MacKenzie came through when his Spitfire crashed during a training exercise in WWII. [MOBY]
Rigby, Captain Gilbert—One of Benedicta’s suitors after the apparent suicide of Lord John’s father, Gerard Grey, the Duke of Pardloe, and now the supervisor of a foundlings home. Lord John meets him in the course of investigating Gerard Grey’s death. [BL]
Roarke, Captain—The skipper of the fishing boat Jamie hires to look for Bonnet’s hideout on Ocracoke Island; while sharing a beer with Claire, he imparts some important information regarding the tides in the inlet and how the various channels will be affected as the tide goes out. [Ashes]
Robert—Michael Murray’s valet in Paris. [SB]
Roberts, George—Senior footman at Helwater and ardent admirer of Betty, Isobel’s lady’s maid. [SP]
Roberts, Melisande; Melly—One of Lady Joffrey’s unmarried relations, whom she attempts to pair with Lord John’s new stepbrother, Percival Wainwright. [BL]
Roberts, Trustworthy, Captain—Captain of the Tranquil Teal, the small American ship that is to take Jamie, Claire, Ian, and Rollo back to Scotland. [Echo]
Robertson, Jimmy—One of the men in Jamie’s militia unit, who prepares a warm stew on the cold winter march to meet the Regulators. [Fiery Cross]
Robinson, Mr. Jno.—Former proprietor of the New Bern Intelligencer; due to the kidnapping and transporting of Mr. Robinson at the hands of the local Committee of Safety, Fergus is able to purchase and take over as sole proprietor and editor in chief of L’Oignon–Intelligencer. [Ashes]
Rodham, Lieutenant—The British soldier in New York who brutally beats a whore, then sets her on fire when he discovers that she is infected with the pox (syphilis). [Echo]
Rodrigo—One of the footmen at the governor’s home in Jamaica, he is young and handsome, but due to bad decisions of a personal nature, island justice has rendered him zombie-like. [PZ]
Rogers—A member of White’s who lays a two-guinea wager that the person lying in the gutter outside is dead. [BL]
x Rogers, Robert, Major—(1731–1795) Veteran of the French and Indian War and one of the originators of “irregular” or guerrilla-type warfare, Rogers was brilliant at recruiting and leading men in “ranging” parties; those units earned the title “Roberts Rangers.” Rogers uses William—who saw Nathan Hale at a checkpoint he was supervising and could therefore identify him—to find and capture the inept American spy. [Echo]
Rollo—Young Ian’s gigantic part-wolf dog, acquired as a gambling prize in Charleston shortly after arriving in the colonies. Rollo is large, fierce, and devoted to his master; he thrives in the wilderness and accompanies Ian everywhere. A good thing for Ian that he does: among other things, he saves Ian’s (and Rachel’s) lives when Arch Bug attacks them with an ax and defends his master from threats ranging from sea pirates to his own cousin William. Rollo is so much a part of Ian’s life that when Ian marries Rachel, Rollo follows Ian up to the front of the church, causing Lord John to remark to his brother (in Claire’s hearing), “And here, of course, is the best man.” Despite his very adventurous life, Rollo lives to a ripe old age and dies peacefully next to his master’s bed. [All]
Ronson, Captain—One of the officers at the Continental encampment at Middlebrook, the American settlement where William goes in hopes of gaining information regarding his cousin Benjamin, who was reported to have died there as a prisoner of war. [MOBY]
Roscoe—Lord John’s dachshund. [MOBY]
Rosenwald—A Jewish goldsmith in Paris, he is contracted to engrave a chalice to be donated to the chapel at le Couvent des Anges by the family of Jared Fraser and Michael Murray. [SB]
Roswell, Lady—An apparently prudish friend of Benedicta Grey. [PM]
Roswell, Lieutenant—Young British army officer sent by General Clinton to Lord John’s house in search of him. Failing to find his lordship, he escorts Claire to Clinton’s office. [MOBY]
Rowbotham, Honorable Helene—A lesser member of the peerage and a beautiful London socialite in attendance at Lady Joffrey’s salon, where Lord John recognizes both her beauty and her ability to use it to her advantage. [BL]
Royce—Trevelyan’s chief man of business for his shipping firm. [PM]
Running Fox—Second-in-command to Tsisqua (Bird-who-sings-in-the-morning), leader of one of the Snowbird Cherokee villages. On a raid, Fox captures a young Tuscaroran woman, wife to Light on Water, a young Tuscaroran brave who is determined to retrieve his wife or die trying. [Ashes]
x Rush, Dr. Benjamin—(1746–1813) Prominent physician in Philadelphia whom Lord John seeks to treat Henry’s severe stomach wounds. A Patriot and Founding Father, Rush was elected to the Continental Congress and served briefly as the surgeon general of the middle department. He promoted bloodletting—often several times a day—to cure disease, to the extreme that his contemporaries objected, stating that he had killed more patients with this method than he had cured. He studied mental illness and campaigned for more-humane housing conditions for the mentally ill, as well as occupational therapy for those institutionalized. [Echo, MOBY]
x Rutherford, Captain Griffith Loch—(1721–1805) A captain of the North Carolina militia, a resident of the Salisbury area, and head of a unit that fought the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance. [Fiery Cross]
x Rutherford, John, the Honorable—(1724–1782) Receiver general of the quit rents and member of the Royal Council of North Carolina, under Governor Tryon. [Fiery Cross]
Ruysdale, Colonel—Commander of the combined forces of England’s Thirty-fifth and Fifty-second Foot regiments stationed in Gundwitz, Prussia, during the Seven Years’ War. [SU]
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Sally-Sarah—Phillip’s Patriot sister, requiring amputation of the arm after a grenade blast. [MOBY]
Sampson—The printer
’s helper, or “devil,” working for Amos Crupp, owner of the Gazette, the Wilmington newspaper that prints the notice of a deadly fire on Fraser’s Ridge. [Ashes]
Samson—A young Prussian artilleryman who has a romantic liaison with Franz, another young soldier, but is experienced enough to hide his emotions—and the truth—when taunted by his peers. [SU]
Samson and Delilah—Samson—a small noisy dog with long brown hair—and Delilah—a large, white mixed-breed hound with a languid temperament—were presented to Jocasta by her husband, Duncan, for protection and to keep her company. [Ashes]
Sanders, Mr.—A friend of Lord John and William’s, who resides in Philadelphia and is a point of contact for them. [Echo]
Sanderson, Mr.—While dealing with arguing factions in Brownsville, Roger draws upon on the image of Mr. Sanderson, one of his schoolmasters—an especially fearsome man, who often lifted quaking students off their feet for infractions—in order to calm the Browns and keep them from shooting his men. [Fiery Cross]
x Sandwich, Fourth Earl of; John Montagu—(1718–1792) A British statesman who held several high military offices. He was notoriously associated with Sir Francis Dashwood’s Hellfire Club, where he panicked when he mistook a baboon—dressed as the devil by another member—for the real devil. [HF]
Sansom, Corporal—Lord John’s aide on the trail to the Twelvetrees and Rose Hall plantations. [PZ]
Sapp, Sergeant-Major—One of General Ruysdale’s men who was to show Lord John where to deliver the body of Private Bodger, but Sapp was not in camp. [SU]
Sassenach—While typically a Gaelic word for an “English person,” this is the name Jamie has affectionately called Claire since they met. [All]
Scanlon, Finbar—An Irish apothecary who marries the widow O’Connell; he also tries to help Trevelyan and his lover with an innovative medical treatment—using the high fevers of malaria to burn out syphilis. [PM]
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