Character profile
Godfrey Norton in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Who is Godfrey Norton in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? A handsome young lawyer of the Inner Temple who courts and secretly marries the opera singer Irene Adler, upsetting Holmes's plans in A Scandal in Bohemia.
Also known as: Mr. Norton, Norton
Who Godfrey Norton is
A handsome young lawyer of the Inner Temple who courts and secretly marries the opera singer Irene Adler, upsetting Holmes's plans in A Scandal in Bohemia.
Appearance
A dashing young barrister in his prime with wavy near-black hair, dark eyes, thick brows and a full dark moustache; fair, faintly ruddy skin. Dressed at the height of 1880s fashion: a tall black silk top hat, a navy tailcoat over a patterned tobacco-brown waistcoat with a gold watch-chain, a crisp white wing-collar shirt and a black silk bow tie.
