Godfrey Staunton
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Godfrey Staunton was the crack three-quarter, Cambridge, Blackheath, and five Internationals (MISS 48).
- He was an orphan and Lord Mount-James was his uncle (MISS 88).
- He was the best man of Cyril Overton (MISS 57).
- He disappeared on the eve of a major match against Oxford (MISS 19), and Sherlock Holmes investigated the case (MISS 76).
- He vanished because a telegram about his secretly married wife's sudden fatal illness drove him to rush to her bedside (MISS 527).
- Sherlock Holmes read the plea from Staunton's telegram off a blotting pad (MISS 153), traced it to Dr. Leslie Armstrong (MISS 244), then used a drag-hound (Pompey) to follow an aniseed-marked brougham to a cottage where Staunton were found (MISS 527).
