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The squire is a well-travelled man and the best shot amongst the crew. He also shows effective leadership qualities and keeps a cool head throughout the adventure. Squire Trelawney may have been named for Edward Trelawny , Governor of Jamaica from 1738 to 1752.
Squire Trelawney immediately plans to outfit a sailing vessel to hunt the treasure down, with the help of Dr. Livesey and Jim. When Jim goes to Bristol and visits Long John Silver at the Spy Glass tavern, his suspicions are immediately aroused: Silver is missing a leg, like the man Bones warned him about. But Silver manages to win Jim's trust.
Dr. David Livesey (/ ˈ l ɪ v s i /) is a fictional character from the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.As well as doctor, he is a magistrate, an important man in the rural society of southwest England, where the story opens; his social position is marked by his always wearing a white wig—even in the harsh conditions of the island on which the adventure takes place.
Mr. Hawkins dies early in the story. John Hunter: A manservant of Squire Trelawney. Dr. Livesey considers him to be the most steady and capable of Livesey's servants to have in a fight. He accompanies Trelawney to the island but is later knocked unconscious in an attack on the stockade. He dies of his injuries while unconscious.
Upon arriving at Squire Trelawney's mansion, Jim informs the doctor and Trelawney about the map that he found amongst Bones' possessions. Upon examining it, dr. Livesey in his usual cheerful manner informs his companions that the map formerly belonged to Captain Flint, and depicts the location of Flint's buried treasure.
He first appears to the reader as a strict, bitter man who finds fault with everything and is never satisfied. [1] However, he quickly reveals that not all is well aboard the ship, and his first conversation with Jim Hawkins, Dr. Livesey, and Squire Trelawney foreshadows the eventual mutiny of many of the Hispaniola ' s members under the leadership of Long John Silver, a cunning and wealthy ...
The treasure is divided amongst Squire Trelawney and his loyal men, including Jim and Ben Gunn - who gets a very small share, £1,000 (equivalent to £127,000 in 2023) of £700,000 (equivalent to £89,053,000 in 2023) total - and they return to England, leaving the surviving pirates marooned on the island.
The narrative takes place in 1759 and diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim, a 13-year old boy, out of his rightful share of the treasure. Jim then teams up with Silver; Smollett, Trelawney, and Livesey are killed; and Jim, Silver, and Ben Gunn escape with the treasure.