Changes: Mycroft Holmes

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For other people called Mycroft Holmes, see Mycroft Holmes (disambiguation).

Mycroft Holmes was the son of Siger Holmes and Violet Rutherford, and the older brother of Sherlock Holmes. He joined British intelligence and eventually became its head.

According to Brad Mengel's "Watching the Detectives, or The Sherlock Holmes Family Tree", Mycroft had three children: Andrew Holmes ("The Affair of the Midnight Midget" by Ardath Mayhar) and Isobella Holmes (The Curse of the Nibelung by Marcel D'Agneau) by his first marriage, and "Shrinking" Violet Holmes by his second marriage.

From Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers and other sources we get a timeline of Mycroft's life:

1847 - Birth of Mycroft Holmes
1875 - Enter the Lion by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright
1886 - Mycroft Holmes is appointed the head of the British Secret Service, becoming the first M.
1887 - All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane
1887 - Against the Brotherhood by Quinn Fawcett
1888 - "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" by Arthur Conan Doyle (first appearance of Mycroft Holmes in a Sherlock Holmes story)
1891 - "The Final Problem" by Arthur Conan Doyle
1892 - "Too Many Stains" (The Adventure of the Second Stain)" by Marvin Kaye
1893 - "Places for Act Two!" by Bradley H. Sinor
1893 - The Scottish Ploy by Quinn Fawcett
1894 - "The Adventure of the Empty House" by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mycroft is mentioned)
1894 - "Art in the Blood" by Brian Stableford
1895 - "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" by Arthur Conan Doyle
1896 - Predator: Nemesis by Gordon Rennie and Colin MacNeil
1898 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
1906 - The Earthquake Machine by Austin Mitchelson and Nicholas Utechin
1907 - Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man by Noel Downing
1908 - The Case of the Missing Martian by Doug Murray
1916 - The Adventure of the Peerless Peer by Philip José Farmer
1924 - The Game by Laurie R. King
1925 - Birth of Mycroft's daughter "Shrinking" Violet Holmes

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 ''For other people called Mycroft Holmes, see [[Mycroft Holmes (disambiguation)]].''
-'''Mycroft Holmes''' was the son of [[Brian Mycroft Holmes]] and [[Violet Rutherford]], and the older brother of [[Sherlock Holmes]]. He joined British intelligence and eventually became its head.
+'''Mycroft Holmes''' was the son of [[Siger Holmes]] and [[Violet Rutherford]], and the older brother of [[Sherlock Holmes]]. He joined British intelligence and eventually became its head.
 According to Brad Mengel's "Watching the Detectives, or The Sherlock Holmes Family Tree", Mycroft had three children: Andrew Holmes ("The Affair of the Midnight Midget" by Ardath Mayhar) and Isobella Holmes (''The Curse of the Nibelung'' by Marcel D'Agneau) by his first marriage, and "Shrinking" Violet Holmes by his second marriage.