In a unearthly moment of synergism , it turns out that Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch is distantly related to the guy who first bring the character to spirit over 100 years ago . That’s … kind of awesome .
Genealogy investigator withAncestry.comdiscovered that Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are 16th first cousin , double dispatch . Doyle died in 1930 , and Cumberbatch presently play his most illustrious character on the PBS television series . Their common ancestor is John of Gaunt from the fourteenth hundred , who was the duke of Lancaster and the fourth son of King Edward III of England . He ’s Doyle ’s 15th great - grandpa and Cumberbatch ’s 17th corking - granddaddy .
give the fact that Sherlock riposte to PBS for its fourth season this weekend , the timing of this family tree promulgation seems too good to be an stroke . But the researcher importune they were n’t asked by anyone to look up the descent , they just thought it would be a cool affair to dive into . Cause , you know , Sherlock Holmes wish mysteries and stuff .
“ have crime syndicate history connectedness is alike to piecing together a cryptic puzzle , one that the enceinte Sherlock Holmes himself would be connive to solve , ” Lisa Elzey , syndicate historian at Ancestry , said .
They added that they have n’t even bothered to differentiate Cumberbatch yet . Well , he probably knows now .
[ Associated Press ]
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