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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Ernest-flammarion-1913-nouvelles-aventures-de-sh-p115-illu.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Trevor senior (in ''Nouvelles aventures de Sherlock Holmes'', 1913)]]<br />
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== In the Sherlock Holmes stories ==<br />
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Real name: James Armitage.<br />
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* Mr. Trevor was living at Donnithorpe, Norfolk, and father of [[Victor Trevor]] ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|27}}).<br />
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* He was a thick-set, burly man with grizzled hair, a weatherbeaten face, and fierce blue eyes ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|37}}).<br />
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* He was a landed proprietor and a J.P. (Justice of the Peace) ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|28}}).<br />
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* He had a son [[Victor Trevor]], and a daughter that died from diphteria ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|33}}).<br />
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* His real name was James Armitage ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|261}}), and in the past he was a former London bank employee convicted of a financial crime (misusing funds to pay a "debt of honour") ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|262}}). Sentenced to transportation aboard the convict ship "Gloria Scott" in 1855 ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|253}}). He survived the mutiny (as a mutineer) and destruction of the ship, escaped to Australia, prospered in the gold-fields, returned to England wealthy, and assumed a new identity ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|59}}).<br />
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* He died of apoplexy when he read the coded letter mentioning "The game is up. [[Hudson]] has told all. Fly for your life." ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|231}}).<br />
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* It was Trevor senior who first recommended to young [[Sherlock Holmes]] that he had the talents to be a good detective ([[GLOR]] {{refcanon|GLOR|71}}).<br />
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