# Kidnapped — Character guide

> Key figures in Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- [David Balfour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/david_balfour.md): A ragged young Lowlander who walks into a lawyer's office with Latin on his tongue and a claim to the estate of Shaws, determined to be believed.
- [Alan Breck Stewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/alan_breck_stewart.md): A Jacobite swordsman with a price on his head and a king's name forever on his lips, who turns a shipwrecked stranger into a sworn companion.
- [Ebenezer Balfour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/uncle_ebenezer.md): The miser of Shaws, who stares from his own doorstep like a man turned to stone when the nephew he sold to kidnappers comes home to collect.
- [Captain Hoseason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/captain_hoseason.md): A grave, well-spoken sea captain who offers a curious lad a friendly bowl aboard his brig — and a berth in the hold instead.
- [Mr. Rankeillor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/mr_rankeillor.md): A sharp Edinburgh lawyer who tests a muddy stranger with a scrap of Horace, then quietly sets about undoing a decade of family fraud.
- [Cluny Macpherson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/cluny_macpherson.md): A hunted Jacobite chieftain who lives hidden like a heather-cat, sheltering fugitives in a cage while the redcoats comb the hills for him.
- [James Stewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/james_stewart.md): James Stewart of the Glens is the steady hand behind Appin's exiled chief, funneling the hard-wrung guineas of crofters and farmers overseas while keeping peace with the Crown's factor, Colin Roy Campbell. Where Alan's t
- [Mr. Riach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/mr_riach.md): First mate of the Covenant, sometimes sympathetic to David.
- [Mr. Shuan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/mr_shuan.md): Second mate of the Covenant, a violent man.
- [Ransome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/ransome.md): A brutalized cabin boy on the Covenant.
- [Mr. Campbell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/mr_campbell.md): Minister of Essendean who sends David to his uncle.
- [Colin Roy Campbell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/colin_roy_campbell.md): The Red Fox, King's factor whose murder sparks the manhunt.
- [Mr. Henderland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/mr_henderson.md): A catechist who gives David shelter and news.
- [Neil Roy Macrob](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/neil_roy_macrob.md): A Highland outlaw who guides David and Alan.
- [Robin Oig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/robin_oig.md): A son of Rob Roy MacGregor encountered in Balquhidder.
- [Torrance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/torrance.md): A servant at the House of Shaws.
- [Mrs. Stewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/mrs_stewart.md): James Stewart's wife, who aids David and Alan.
- [John Breck Maccoll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kidnapped_se/characters/john_breck_maccoll.md): A Highland guide who helps David and Alan cross the Forth.

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