The Custom of the Army (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• John Grey: the protagonist, Lieutenant-Colonel
• Lucinda Joffrey: the hostess at the electric-eel party
• Caroline Woodford: a friend of Lord John
• Edwin Nicholls: a participant of the eel party
• John Hunter: surgeon and anatomist
• Horace Suddfield: electric-eel's owner
• Tom Byrd: Lord John's valet
• Hal: the Duke of Pardloe, Lord John's brother
• Dottie (Dorothea Jacqueline Benedicta Grey): Lord John's niece, daughter of Hal and Minnie
• Minnie: the Duchess of Pardloe, wife of Hal, sister-in-law of Lord John
• Gerard Grey: Lord John and Hal's deceased father
• Lord Enderby: Caroline Woodford's brother
• Nathaniel Twelvetrees: a dead, the man who seduced Hal's first wife, and was killed in a duel with Hal, not an active character in this story.
• Bernard Donald Adams: an former Jacobite, British army officer in prison for past crimes, a foe of the Grey family
• Charlie Carruthers: An army friend of Lord John's, now being charged with "failure to supress a mutiny" and facing court-martial in Canada.
• James Wolfe: General, in charge of the British Army in Canada, a real historical character
• Gerald Siverly: Charlie Carruther's senior officer, the subject of the mutiny Charlie is charged
• Simon Fraser: Brigadier, a real historical character
• Manoke: an "Indian Scout" (Native Canadian) attached to Wolfe's troops
• Malcolm Stubbs: Lord John's cousin-by-marriage, Married to Olivia, an officer in the British Army, stationed in Canada under Wolfe
• Olivia: Lord John's cousin, married to Malcolm Stubbs
• Aloysius Cutter: a Sargeant in the British Army, stationed in Canada with Wolfe's troops
• Holmes: Admiral, third in command after Wolfe
• Montcalm: Wolfe's "enemy" who holds Quebec for the French

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1. Diana Gabaldon (Author)

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