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What real person did the writer use as a basis for Sherlock Holmes?
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∙ 13y ago
Sherlock Holmes The creator of the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had trained as a Physician in Edinburgh and had worked as a General Medical Practitioner (a doctor) before he began writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. One of Doyle's tutors at Edinburgh was Dr Joseph Bell whose great powers of observation of munute details and deductions from these observations, were the basis of Holmes' similar abilities.
Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school professors. Bell instructed his students in the ways of observation and rational deduction, qualities that Doyle found excellent for a detective to possess.
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∙ 12y agoWhat is Sherlock Holmes based on?
Sherlock Holmes was based in London as a detective. The character, 'Sherlock Holmes' was based on Dr. Joseph Bell. Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes) had worked for him in the past in the Capital City of Scotland as a Clerk.
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'We discussed this in year 6 as a class in English. We thought that it was based on a detecting scheme called 'Detecting The Future' which was first done in London in 1873' Anonymous
'My grandad used to like reading Doyle's books on Sherlock Holmes. I asked him and he said a detecting scheme.' Jacqueline
'A detecting scheme in London' Anonymous
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∙ 15y agoHe was based on Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle had worked for him as a clerk in Edinburgh. The Dr often made deductions based on his observations of his patients.
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