Dr. James Mortimer

Dr. James Mortimer meeting Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (The Strand Magazine, august 1901)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Dr. James Mortimer, MRCS (HOUN 6).

• He was house-surgeon, from 1882 to 1884, at Charing Cross Hospital. Winner of the Jackson Prize for Comparative Pathology, with essay entitled 'Is Disease a Reversion?' Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society. Author of "Some Freaks of Atavism" (Lancet, 1882), "Do We Progress?" (Journal of Psychology, March, 1883). Medical Officer for the parishes of Grimpen, Thorsley, and High Barrow (HOUN 77).

• He received from his friends of the CCH a stick engraved with the date '1884' (HOUN 6).

• He was married (HOUN 112), and lived at Grimpen, Dartmoor, Devon (HOUN 77).

• He was the personal friend and medical attendant to Sir Charles Baskerville (HOUN 168), and became trustee and executor of Sir Charles's will (HOUN 421).

• He sought Sherlock Holmes because he felt unequal to a serious, urgent problem and needed Holmes's advice about how to handle Sir Henry Baskerville's arrival (HOUN 432).

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