# Catriona — Character guide

> Key figures in Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- [David Balfour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/david_balfour.md): A young Lowlander of stubborn honor, David Balfour narrates his own perilous coming-of-age, caught between loyalty to a Jacobite outlaw and his own conscience.
- [Alan Breck Stewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/alan_breck_stewart.md): A Jacobite swordsman and outlaw with a merry tongue, Alan Breck Stewart is David's fierce ally, forever certain he understands women better than his baffled friend.
- [Catriona Drummond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/catriona_drummond.md): Proud, quick-witted, and poor, Catriona Drummond leaps from a ship's bulwark for David, yet confesses her heart may not be true to anyone.
- [James More Macgregor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/james_more_macgregor.md): Catriona's father, a Jacobite schemer and former soldier of Gladsmuir, whose polished letters and genteel lies keep his daughter trapped in beggary.
- [Lord Advocate Prestongrange](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/prestongrange.md): Scotland's Lord Advocate, a powerful Whig who wields friendship like a net, offering David discretion and favors while quietly arranging his fate.
- [Barbara Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/barbara_grant.md): The Advocate's sharp-tongued daughter, Barbara Grant teases David about Catriona's grey eyes, slipping jesting messages into her father's official letters.
- [Charles Stewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/charles_stewart.md): Known in one house as Mr. Jamieson and in France as the Chevalier Stewart, he is a man so privileged that, as one hostess jokes, he might set fire to her corn-barn and still be welcomed back. His ease among enemies and h
- [Black Andie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/black_andie.md): Andie is the kind of keeper who will bait a young man one minute and shield him the next, calling David 'Saxpence' while quietly steering him toward Catriona. His matchmaking is as blunt as his seamanship, and his suspic
- [Tam Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/tam_dale.md): Boatman and associate of Black Andie, involved in the Bass Rock escape.
- [Mr. Balfour of Pilrig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/mr_balfour_of_pilrig.md): Pilrig moves easily between the law courts and the private chambers where Jacobite bargains are struck, and he is candid enough to tell David that Catriona's imprisonment is serious in a sense. His loyalty to family is r
- [Symon Fraser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/symon_fraser.md): Fraser is the quiet power behind other men's plots, a man who can appear at Shaws by night in a scratchwig and wraprascal and be gone before anyone thinks to ask his business. His courage is not in question, but neither 
- [Lady Allardyce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/lady_allardyce.md): Elderly, eccentric noblewoman who shelters David.
- [Neil of the Tom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/neil_of_the_tom.md): Highlander and associate of James More, involved in the abduction plot.
- [Sprott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/sprott.md): Witness in the Appin murder case, a shady character.
- [Neil Duncanson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/neil_duncanson.md): Highlander and accomplice of James More.
- [Tod Lapraik](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/tod_lapraik.md): Warlock-like figure in Black Andie's tale on the Bass Rock.
- [Rankeillor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/rankeillor.md): Lawyer and friend of David's family.
- [Miss Tibbie Ramsay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/catriona_se/characters/miss_tibbie_ramsay.md): Edinburgh landlady and friend of David.

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