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
Canon of Sherlock Holmes Jack Tracy; "The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", edited by Peter Haining; "The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes", edited by Richard Lancelyn Green; and the final volume of Leslie S. Klinger's "Sherlock Holmes Reference Library" titled "The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes". These works, each with slightly different contents, discussed several titles and their place in the canon. In addition to the canon, Conan Doyle wrote (occasionally with a co-writer) a number of vignettes, play adaptations and essays involving Holmes, and two short stories in which Holmes makes a possible cameo appearance. Most were published in various places during his lifetime; another has