# Moonfleet — Character guide

> Key figures in Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner.

- [John Trenchard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/john_trenchard.md): An orphan boy in Moonfleet whose hunger for buried treasure and a smuggler's secrets draws him from boyhood into a life of danger, loyalty, and hard-won manhood.
- [Elzevir Block](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/elzevir_block.md): The grim, grief-scarred innkeeper of the Mohune Arms, whose fierce loyalty to a dead son and a hunted boy makes him both protector and outlaw.
- [Grace Maskew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/grace_maskew.md): The magistrate's daughter, tawny-haired and quietly steadfast, whose loyalty to John survives her father's cruelty and the village's contempt for her name.
- [Mr. Maskew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/mr_maskew.md): The miserly magistrate who bought the ruined Mohune estate and set every smuggler and neighbor against him by hunting contraband and trespassers alike.
- [Ratsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/ratsey.md): A weathered Moonfleet smuggler and loyal friend, whose flasks, gossip, and steady nerve keep John and Elzevir tethered to the village they can no longer enter.
- [Blackbeard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/blackbeard.md): The legendary Colonel John Mohune, called Blackbeard, whose ghost, buried treasure, and unfinished penance haunt Moonfleet's vaults and every fortune-hunter who enters them.
- [Reverend Mr. Glennie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/reverend_mr_glennie.md): Glennie keeps a ragged school in the old almshouse hall, where John Trenchard learns his letters and watches the parson stand his ground against the bullying magistrate Maskew. When Maskew storms in to rage over verses c
- [John Mohune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/john_mohune.md): The historical Colonel John Mohune, whose treasure is sought after.
- [Mr. Aldobrand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/mr_aldobrand.md): A Dutch merchant involved in the smuggling trade.
- [Aunt Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/aunt_jane.md): John's aunt who takes him in after his parents' death.
- [David Block](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/david_block.md): Elzevir's son, who dies early in the story.
- [Mr. Bailiff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/mr_bailiff.md): The local bailiff who enforces the law.
- [Damen of Ringstave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/damen_of_ringstave.md): A smuggler from Ringstave.
- [Master Turnkey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moonfleet_se/characters/master_turnkey.md): The jailer at the local prison.

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