# Percy Trevelyan — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes character guide

> Percy Trevelyan in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dr. Trevelyan, Percy Trevelyan, Dr. Percy Trevelyan, Trevelyan

**First appearance:** 0008-the-resident-patient

## Snapshot

A young doctor of modest means who accepts a stranger's offer to fund his practice, only to find the arrangement stranger than the medicine.

## Who they are

Dr. Percy Trevelyan is a decent, hardworking physician whose career has stalled for lack of capital. When the reclusive Mr. Blessington offers to set him up in exchange for a share of the fees, Trevelyan accepts what looks like a patron's generosity. But the terms of the bargain grow more peculiar by the week, and the young doctor's unease becomes the reader's own as the case unfolds.

## In the story

### [The Resident Patient](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_memoirs_of_sherlock_holmes_se/chapters/the-resident-patient)

Dr. Trevelyan, a promising young specialist, seeks Holmes's help after his resident patient is disturbed by intruders.

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