Catriona (novel) the 3rd duke of Argyll, Simon Fraser of Lovat, Prophet Peden and Hugh Palliser were real people and the frigate HMS "Seahorse" actually existed. However, the heroine who gives her name to the novel is a fictional character. The real James MacGregor had seven sons and six daughters, none of them named Catriona. The 1971 film "Kidnapped" was based on "Kidnapped" and the first half of "Catriona". Catriona (novel) Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel "Kidnapped" (1886). It was first published in the magazine
Graham Balfour Graham Balfour Sir Graham Balfour (2 December 1858 – 26 October 1929) was a noted educationalist and son of Surgeon General Thomas Graham Balfour, who worked closely with Florence Nightingale. Sir Graham Balfour (born Chelsea, London 1858), christened Thomas Graham Balfour, was an educationist and wrote a well-received biography of his cousin Robert Louis Stevenson. He lived in Vailima, Samoa, with the Stevenson family during the last two and a half years of Stevenson's life. He was born to Thomas Graham Balfour (senior) and Georgina Prentice. He married Rhoda Brooke in 1896, and the couple had two sons, one of