# Sir Robert Norberton — The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes character guide

> Sir Robert Norberton in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Norberton, Sir Robert, brother Robert

**First appearance:** 0012-the-adventure-of-shoscombe-old-place

## Snapshot

A proud country baronet whose crumbling estate and mounting debts drive him toward a scheme so reckless it threatens to destroy the family name he guards so fiercely.

## Who they are

Sir Robert belongs to the old squirearchy of Shoscombe Old Place, a man whose fortunes rest on a single race and whose aristocratic bearing conceals a desperate financial squeeze. His secretive behavior — strange errands, a locked wing, an unexplained absence — makes him the natural suspect when something goes wrong on the estate. What makes him compelling is the tension between his stiff-necked pride and the compromises poverty forces upon him, a conflict Holmes must untangle before judging the man.

## Relationships

### [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sherlock_holmes)

_rivalry_

Sir Robert Norberton is a suspect and antagonist in a case, clashing with Holmes's deductions.

### [Godfrey Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/godfrey_emsworth)

_family_

Godfrey Emsworth is the brother of Sir Robert Norberton, and their relationship is strained by a dark secret.

### [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sherlock_holmes)

_rivalry_

Sir Robert Norberton is a suspect and antagonist in a case, clashing with Holmes's deductions.

### [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sherlock_holmes)

_rivalry_

Sir Robert Norberton is a suspect and antagonist in a case, clashing with Holmes's deductions.

### [Godfrey Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/godfrey_emsworth)

_family_

Godfrey Emsworth is the brother of Sir Robert Norberton, and their relationship is strained by a dark secret.

### [Godfrey Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/godfrey_emsworth)

_family_

Godfrey Emsworth is the brother of Sir Robert Norberton, and their relationship is strained by a dark secret.

## In the story

### [The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/chapters/the-adventure-of-shoscombe-old-place)

The desperate owner of Shoscombe Prince who hides his sister's death to secure his Derby winnings.

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