#joseph bell

[reireicryblood]

Real life John Hamish Watson and Sherlock Scott Holmes : Doyle and Bell

Real life Holmes family : Bell

Real life Moriarty Family : Raymond

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>> I'll make another post to tell more about all of the lore between Sherlock Holmes Media and Real life events

[randomnessoffiction]

Best Sherlockian Inspired Character

Basil of Baker Street

Shirley Holmes

Dr. Joseph Bell

Dr. Gregory House

Voting ended onSep 11, 2024

[gentleman-detective]

Happy birthday to Dr. Joseph Bell (2 December 1837 - 4 October 1911), the man who inspired Sir ACD to create Sherlock Holmes.

[swamp-adder]

More tidbits from the BSJ (Jan 1947):

I am indebted to Dr. Archibald Malloch, of the New York Academy of Medicine, for an anecdote which has not, so far as I know, had previous currency. It is taken from page 50 of Sir Edmund Sprigg’s 1944 Harveian Oration of the Royal College of Physicians in London, entitled The Harveian Method in Literature, as published by Headley Brothers, 109 Kingsway, W.C. 2. The entire quotation is given: "Commander Gould, R.N., of the B.B.C., told me that two golfers of a former generation, taking tea at a St. Andrews Hotel, were disputing about the whereabouts of a village near Blackheath. An older man sitting by the fire suggested that they should ask a fourth person in the room, who settled the point. When the players had left, the fourth man said, 'What led you to refer them to me who am a stranger to you?' The reply was, 'Well, I saw you this morning pivoting on your left foot on the golf course. That is a fault of those who learned their golf in boyhood. I heard you speak and knew you were English. Blackheath was about the only place in England where golf would be learnt 40 years ago and I thought it probable you would know the neighborhood.' "The old gentleman's name was Joseph Bell. . ."

[scotianostra]

December 2nd 1837 saw the birth in Edinburgh of Joseph Bell, the lecturer in medicine whose deductive approach to diagnosis inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes.

Bell attended the Edinburgh Academy before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He graduated with his MD in 1859 and became a house surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary under James Syme. He then went on to become a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Edinburgh Medical School before becoming a lecturer in surgery and in clinical surgery. He also started the first nurses’ training course in Scotland at the Royal Infirmary. He was also personal surgeon to Queen Victoria whenever she was in Edinburgh, and became a Justice of the Peace, and a Deputy Lord Lieutenant.

Among his students and contemporaries Bell became famous for his ability to make swift and accurate diagnoses of patients, often on the basis of close observation of clues that others simply never saw. His party-piece was to pick a stranger and, through observation, deduce his occupation and recent activities. One of Bell’s students in 1877 was Arthur Conan Doyle. Bell clearly made a strong impression on Doyle. In 1887 the latter published A Study in Scarlet which marked the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was explicitly modelled on Joseph Bell and Doyle later wrote a letter to him saying: “It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes although, in the stories, I have the advantage of being able to place him in all sorts of dramatic situations”. It is said that Bell took considerable pride in the success of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Joseph Bell died in 1911. He is buried in Edinburgh’s Dean Cemetery next to his wife, Edith Murray. In November 2004, the US Fox TV network aired the first episode of the American medical drama House, starring the English actor Hugh Laurie. The creator of the series has described it as “a subtle homage to Sherlock Holmes”: which in many ways brings the setting for the character full circle back to its medical roots and to Joseph Bell.

He is remembered more directly in the name of the Joseph Bell Centre, established in 2001 as a centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning by the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Lothian & Borders Police Forensic Science Laboratory. Conan Doyle described Bell as “a tall, stately, kindly man, keen eyes and aquiline features contributing to his air of intent investigation.”

I think you can see from the photograph of Bell how much inspiration Conan Doyle got from Bell, he could be straight from any early Sherlock Holmes book cover or movie. The pic with the plaque is at the Consulate General of Japan, Melville Crescent Edinburgh

[gaytobymeres]

Walked through Dean Cemetery today and found Joseph Bell’s grave. He was a surgeon and served as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. It’s hard to see in this photo, but his name is on the bottom stone.

[witchofdunwich]

I have gone to the Joseph Bell tag and it’s flooded with explicit pictures of some dude whose name is also Joseph Bell apparently and who runs an adult diaper kink blog lmao

I’m wheezing, this is the weirdest timeline

[jamespaulmoody]

Joseph Bell in New Zealand, 1895/6.

Joseph would later become Chief Engineer on Titanic.