Person
Dr. James Mortimer
Also known as Dr. Mortimer, James Mortimer, Mortimer.
A young, amiable, absent-minded country doctor, M.R.C.S., who practises among the moorland parishes of Grimpen on Dartmoor. A keen amateur man of science, devoted to craniology and comparative anatomy, he was once a house-surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital before marriage drew him to the country. He calls on Sherlock Holmes with an urgent and extraordinary problem he feels unequipped to handle, leaving behind the stick from which Holmes reconstructs him; he owns a curly-haired spaniel.
Chapter II. The Curse of the Baskervilles
He proves to have been the friend and medical attendant of Sir Charles Baskerville. He reads Holmes an old family manuscript and the newspaper account of the death, then confides the fact he withheld from the inquest: near the body he saw the footprints of a gigantic hound.
Chapter III. The Problem
He reveals that he is trustee and executor of Sir Charles's will and has come less for the dead man than for the living heir, Sir Henry, whom he meets at Waterloo within the hour. He admits he half believes the moor holds something outside the laws of nature.
Chapter VI. Baskerville Hall
He travels down to Devon with the party and drives off to his waiting wife at Grimpen, urging Sir Henry to send for him night or day.
Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
He lunches at the Hall full of joy over a prehistoric skull he has dug from a barrow at Long Down, a single-minded enthusiast for old bones and craniology.
Chapter X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
He gives Watson a lift in his dog-cart, frets over his lost spaniel, and supplies the one name on the moor whose initials are L. L.: Laura Lyons of Coombe Tracey.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
He takes charge of the shattered, fevered Sir Henry after the night's ordeal on the moor.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
He is bound to travel round the world with Sir Henry for the restoration of the baronet's broken nerves.
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