William S. Baring-Gould
William Stuart Baring-Gould (1913–10 Aug 1967) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective". Biography. He was a grandson of Sabine Baring-Gould He married Lucile "Ceil" Marguerite Moody in 1937. He was creative director of "Time" magazine's circulation and corporate education departments from 1937 until his death. Writing. In 1955, Baring-Gould privately published "The Chronological Holmes", an attempt to lay out, in chronological order, all the events alluded to  in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Three years later, Baring-Gould wrote "The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained", with his wife, Lucile "Ceil" Baring-Gould. The book provides a wealth of information about nursery rhymes, and includes often-banned bawdy rhymes. In 1967, Baring-Gould published "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes", an annotated edition of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Baring-Gould also wrote "The Lure of the Limerick" a study of the history and allure of limericks; it included a collection of limericks, arranged alphabetically, and a bibliography"; and Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street : The life and times of America's largest private detective", a fictional biography of Rex Stout's detective character Nero Wolfe; in this book, Baring-Gould popularised the theory that Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. The two books were published posthumously, in 1968 and 1969, respectively.