Dr. Percy Trevelyan

Dr. Percy Trevelyan and Blessington (The Strand Magazine, august 1893)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Dr. Percy Trevelyan was a young London physician, specialist in nervous diseases. (RESI 34).

• He studied at London University and held a post at King's College Hospital (RESI 50).

• He became well known in medical circles for his research into catalepsy and for winning the Bruce Pinkerton prize and medal with his monograph on obscure nervous lesions (RESI 51).

• He was approached by a Sutton (Blessington), who offered to finance his practice on the condition that Trevelyan hand over three-quarters of his earnings and allow him to live in the house as a "resident patient." (RESI 58). Trevelyan accepted and set up in Brook Street (RESI 180).

• Later, when suspicious events occurred (the visits of the disguised Russian nobleman and his "son"), Trevelyan went to Sherlock Holmes for advice (RESI 43).

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