Trevor senior
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
Real name: James Armitage.
- Mr. Trevor was living at Donnithorpe, Norfolk, and father of Victor Trevor (GLOR 27).
- He was a thick-set, burly man with grizzled hair, a weatherbeaten face, and fierce blue eyes (GLOR 37).
- He had a son Victor Trevor, and a daughter that died from diphteria (GLOR 33).
- His real name was James Armitage (GLOR 261), and in the past he was a former London bank employee convicted of a financial crime (misusing funds to pay a "debt of honour") (GLOR 262). Sentenced to transportation aboard the convict ship "Gloria Scott" in 1855 (GLOR 253). He survived the mutiny (as a mutineer) and destruction of the ship, escaped to Australia, prospered in the gold-fields, returned to England wealthy, and assumed a new identity (GLOR 59).
- He died of apoplexy when he read the coded letter mentioning "The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life." (GLOR 231).
- It was Trevor senior who first recommended to young Sherlock Holmes that he had the talents to be a good detective (GLOR 71).
