Joseph Openshaw
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
Father of John Openshaw.
- Joseph Openshaw was the father of John Openshaw and the brother of Colonel Elias Openshaw (FIVE 62).
- Joseph Openshaw a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling (FIVE 63).
- Joseph Openshaw was the patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tyre, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it, and to retire upon a handsome competence (FIVE 64).
- Colonel Elias Openshaw asked to Joseph Openshaw to let his son live with his uncle (FIVE 76).
- Colonel Elias Openshaw left his estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages to his brother (FIVE 101).
- Joseph Openshaw entered into possession of his brother's estate, and of some fourteen thousand pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank (FIVE 118).
- Major Freebody, who is in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill was an old friend of Joseph Openshaw (FIVE 164).
- Joseph Openshaw had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull (FIVE 168).
- Joseph Openshaw met his end in january 1885, two years and eight months since the John Openshaw case (FIVE 177).
