Old Photograph Joseph Bell Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Joseph Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland. Joseph, born 2nd of December 1837, died 4th of October 1911, was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He is perhaps best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle met Bell in 1877, and served as his clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Doyle later went on to write a series of popular stories featuring the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, who Doyle stated was loosely based on Bell and his observant ways.



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