Close-up of the headstone of Joseph Bell (1837-1911), Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
At the bottom of this memorial stone it says "Joseph Bell, , Born 2nd December 1837, died 4th October 1911. A man greatly beloved. Dan. X. II." Joseph Bell, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, has been linked with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. The British Medical Journal has this to say about Bell in his obituary in 1911 "He was a brilliant and impressive teacher. He missed nothing as a clinician. Among his pupils in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who, it is generally believed, took him as the prototype of the famous detective of the 'Sherlock Holmes' stories. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says of his old teacher: 'Personally, I can say very little of Dr. Joseph Bell, for I have never met him in his own house, and really only know him as my professor. As such I shall always see him very clearly, his stiff, bristling, iron-grey hair, his clear, half-humorous, half-critical grey eyes, his eager face, and swarthy skin. He had a very spare figure, as I remember him, and walked with a jerky energetic gait, his head carried high, and his arms swinging. He had a dry humour, and remarkable command of the vernacular, into which he fell easily when addressing his patients. His skill as a surgeon and his charm as a lecturer are, of course, proverbial.'"
Size: 5100px × 3372px
Location: Dean Path, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Photo credit: © D Hale-Sutton / Alamy / Afripics
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