The Reverse of The Medal - Characters

Characters

  • Jack Aubrey - Captain of HMS Surprise.
  • Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and intelligence officer.
  • Sir Joseph Blaine - Maturin's associate in the intelligence service, and confidant.
  • Sophie Aubrey - Jack Aubrey's wife
  • Mrs. Williams - Sophie's mother
  • Sir William Pellow - Admiral of the West Indies Squadron
  • Samuel Panda - Jack Aubrey's illegitimate black son
  • Mr Martin - a Royal Navy parson
  • William Mowett
  • Padeen Colman
  • Joe Plaice - an old able seaman on the Surprise
  • Mr Palmer - gives Aubrey false information about purchasing shares
  • General Aubrey - a Radical MP and Jack Aubrey's father
  • Andrew and Fanny Wray
  • William Babbington - Captain of the Tartarus
  • Mr Pratt - a private investigator
  • Mr Lawrence - Jack's defence lawyer, and a fellow Trinity College man (like Maturin)
  • Parker - a Bow Street Runner hired by Blaine and Maturin to investigate Jacks case and find Palmer
  • Davies - an Able Seaman on the Surprise
  • Duhamel - a disillusioned French secret agent
  • Heneage Dundas - Captain of the Eurydice and a close friend of Aubrey; also younger brother of Lord Melville, Head of the Admiralty

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