Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

It was Pete Holmes, the cabdriver.

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

But Holmes was rejected again `` on the basis of his record and interview ''.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

Holmes was asked if he had ever visited a house of prostitution, or a `` beatnik parlor or teahouse ''.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

The British geologist Arthur Holmes championed the theory of continental drift at a time when it was deeply unfashionable.

Although much of the attention focused on the power-hitting lineup, much of the club's success was due to a strong bullpen, as relievers Darren Holmes, Curt Leskanic, Steve Reed, and Bruce Ruffin all posted earned-run averages below 3. 40.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Rose agrees to replace Kitty as chaperone for her daughter Samantha's ( Daveigh Chase ) dance troupe in Los Angeles, so Kitty can testify in Cunningham's defense ; with her husband Eddie ( Holmes Osborne ) in New York on business, her older children are home alone.

* In The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, an elderly Holmes and his protegee, Mary Russell, are pursued by Moriarty's middle-aged daughter, also an Oxford mathematics don, and a criminal kingpin in her own right, who threatens Holmes's remaining friends as she attempts to force Holmes to kill himself after signing a fake confession ' admitting ' that he framed her father to be a criminal out of jealousy aand that most of his cases were solved by others, only for Holmes to provoke her by noting that her father essentially committed suicide by confronting Holmes in such an isolated spot without any weapons, resulting in her accidentally shooting herself when struggling with Mary Russell in a fit of rage.

His daughter Mary married, in 1790, Abiel Holmes, a Congregational clergyman and historian and a 1783 graduate of Yale College.

See the Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, edited by George William Curtis ( New York, 1889 ); Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir ( Boston, 1878 ); and John Lothrop Motley and his Family: Further Letters and Records ( 1910 ), edited by his daughter, Mrs Susan St John Mildmay.

In 1947 he married Jasmine Holmes, the daughter of his Charterhouse house master.

The 30-year-old King explained to Holmes that he intended to marry Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia ; the marriage would be threatened if his prior relationship with Adler should come to light.

Lord Stansgate married Margaret, daughter of Daniel Holmes, in 1920.

On January 28, 1887, while he was still married to Clara, Holmes married Myrta Belknap in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; their daughter, Lucy Theodate Holmes, was born on July 4, 1889 in Englewood, Illinois ( in adult life, Lucy was to become a public schoolteacher ).

The episode was followed by a sequel, " Second Generation ", featuring Irene's daughter hiring Holmes in retirement.

Holmes married Barbara Ireland, the daughter of William Nelson Ireland, who was also a state legislator in the 1950s.

On his marriage in 1837 to Elizabeth Holmes, daughter of Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, Lord Heytesbury assumed the additional surname of Holmes.

In 1862, William Meredith married Mary ( 1842 – 1930 ), daughter of Marcus Holmes, Mayor of London, Director of the London & Lake Huron Railway Company and President of the Horticultural Society.

Colin Dexter, known for writing the Inspector Morse novels, wrote a short story based on this called " A Case of Mis-Identity ", in which Holmes's brother Mycroft is involved in the case's deduction ; in this story, Holmes's theory about the ' Hosmer Angel ' character is the same, while Mycroft deduces that ' Hosmer Angel ' is a fiction created by the mother and daughter to eliminate the step-father, only for Watson to reveal that ' Hosmer Angel ' is actually a real person who suffered an attack due to an illness on the way to his wedding and was treated by Watson shortly before the case was officially presented to Holmes.

Sarah was the daughter of a wealthy family, and Holmes was named for his maternal grandfather, a judge.

Also through his mother, Holmes was descended from Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Anne Bradstreet ( daughter of Thomas Dudley ), the first published American poet.

Holmes is the daughter of a feminist mother and a Mormon father and was for two years a missionary in Venezuela for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

While waiting up late one night, Holmes and Watson are visited by the night watchman of a famous waxworks and his grand – daughter.

( His daughter, Jane Holmes, later became a prominent radio personality.

Holmes has a daughter from a previous relationship, with whom he performs in the band The Scarlet Furies, and is married to Jane Jensen, the creator and designer of the acclaimed trilogy.

Afterward, Holmes travelled incognito as a Norwegian explorer named Sigerson.

The surrounding county had not been settled until 1858, and settlement was severely restricted for a time by the Dakota War of 1862 ( although it was reported that the best land in the township adjacent to Solem, Holmes City, was already taken by 1867, by a mixture of Swedish, Norwegian and " Yankee " settlers ).