Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain of the Surprise.
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer.
- Sophie Aubrey - Jack's wife.
- Philip Aubrey - Jack's younger half-brother.
- Diana Maturin (née Villiers) - Stephen's estranged wife.
- Sir Joseph Blaine
- Mr Nathaniel Martin
- Preserved Killick
- Barret Bonden
- Padeen Colman - Stephen's Irish servant; loblolly-boy on the Surprise
- Captain Tom Pullings - a volunteer King's officer on board the Surprise.
- Captain William Babbington - Captain of HMS Tartarus; commander of the St Martin blockading squadron; made Post Captain; lover of Fanny Wray.
- Fanny Wray - daughter of Admiral Harte and wife of Andrew Wray.
- Andrew Wray - works for the Admiralty; a French agent.
- Charlotte, Fanny and George Aubrey - Jack's three children.
- The Duke of Clarence - the Regent's younger brother.
- Ledward - works for the Treasury; a French agent.
- Mrs Broad - landlady of The Grapes.
- Mr Davidge and Mr West - officers on the Surprise.
- Slade - a follower of Seth and crew member of the Surprise.
- Colonel Gedymin Jagiello - a Colonel in the Swedish armed forces.
- Countess Tessin - Jagiello's grandmother.
Read more about this topic: The Letter Of Marque
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga—stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Children pay little attention to their parent’s teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)