Minor Sherlock Holmes characters settling on "Sherlock Holmes". The name is used of Holmes by Stamford in the 1954 radio show 'Dr Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes' as he attempts to remember Holmes' first name. He was first proposed by William S. Baring-Gould who wrote in his fictional biography "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street" (1962) that Sherrinford was the eldest brother of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes once stated that his family were country squires, which means that the eldest brother would have to stay to manage the estate. If Mycroft were the eldest, he could not play the role he does in four stories of the
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Sherlock Holmes is on the suspects list. In "Fate/Grand Order", released in Japan in 2015, Holmes briefly appears in the Camelot singularity. Then he appears in the Shinjuku singularity as an ally. He is a Ruler class servant. These stories treat Sherlock Holmes as an historical character but concern themselves with one of his successors — biological or spiritual — who usually take after him in some way, e.g. being good detectives. In the 1977 spoof "The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It", John Cleese plays Arthur Sherlock Holmes, grandson of the famous sleuth, alongside