Family

The Baskervilles

Also known as the Baskerville family.

The ancient Devonshire family seated at Baskerville Hall, said since the days of the wild Hugo to lie under a curse, a spectral hound that dooms the line. Strong-minded and masterful by blood, many of them have died sudden, bloody, and mysterious deaths, and the recently returned Sir Charles took the legend gravely.

Chapter III. The Problem

Of three brothers in the last generation Sir Charles was the eldest; the youngest, the black-sheep Rodger, fled abroad and reportedly died, leaving the heir Sir Henry the last of the Baskervilles.

Chapter IV. Sir Henry Baskerville

The fiery Baskerville temper shows itself unextinguished in Sir Henry, whose colour rises and whose dark brows knit when he is crossed.

Chapter VI. Baskerville Hall

At the Hall their boar's-head crest tops the lichened lodge-pillars, and a dim line of five centuries of ancestors stares down from the dining-room walls.

Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets

The portrait gallery betrays a startling family likeness in the face of one Cavalier ancestor.

Chapter XV. A Retrospection

Holmes lays bare how the family curse was deliberately exploited, and that the schemer behind it was himself a secret Baskerville heir.

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