Colonel Sebastian Moran
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
Colonel Sebastian Moran was Moriarty's chief of staff, an ex-Indian Army officer and famed marksman who murdered Ronald Adair and tried to kill Sherlock Holmes with a special air-gun.
Description
- Colonel Sebastian Moran, once of Her Majesty's Indian Army, was the best heavy game shot that the Eastern Empire has ever produced (EMPT 334).
- In Sherlock Holmes' book : "Moran, Sebastian, Colonel. Unemployed. Formerly 1st Bengalore Pioneers. Born London, 1840. Son of Sir Augustus Moran, C.B., once British Minister to Persia. Educated Eton and Oxford. Served in Jowaki Campaign, Afghan Campaign, Charasiab (dispatches), Sherpur, and Cabul. Author of Heavy Game of the Western Himalayas, 1881; Three Months in the Jungle, 1884. Address: Conduit Street. Clubs: The Anglo-Indian, the Tankerville, the Bagatelle Card Club. The second most dangerous man in London" (EMPT 409).
Links to Moriarty
- He was sought out by Professor Moriarty, to whom for a time he was chief of the staff (EMPT 437).
- He was the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London (EMPT 251).
- Sherlock Holmes said that 'The old sweet song' was a favourite ditty of the late lamented Professor Moriarty, and Colonel Sebastian Moran have also been known to warble it (LAST 396).
Criminal activities
- Colonel Sebastian Moran shot the Honourable Ronald Adair with an expanding bullet from an air-gun through the open window of the second-floor front of No. 427 Park Lane, upon the 30th of last month (EMPT 372).
- He tried to kill Sherlock Holmes with an air-gun, but failed and was arrested (EMPT 351).
