Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon

Lord Robert St. Simon (The Strand Magazine, april 1892)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St Simon was the second son of the Duke of Balmoral (NOBL 47), born in 1846 (NOBL 50).

• He inherited Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side (NOBL 54).

• He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies in a late Administration (NOBL 52).

• He consulted Lestrade from Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes because his fiancée, Miss Hatty Doran, disappeared on the day of her wedding (NOBL 35).

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