Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Sherlock Holmes and Alan Turing, is related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and King Richard III. They are distant cousins through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.
It seems that British actor Benedict Cumberbatch can’t seem to escape his past. In 2017, Ancestry.com announced that its genealogist staff had discovered that Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes in the popular BBC television series Sherlock, is actually related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author who first disclosed the character. of the detective in 1887. in the wake of Ancestry.com’s revelation that Cumberbatch was also “distantly related” to codebreaker Alan Turing, whom the actor played in the 2014 biopic The Imitation Game.
it’s elementary:
Cumberbatch and Doyle were both descended from John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and fourth son of King Edward III. They are sixteenth cousins, removed twice.
Cumberbatch is John of Gaunt’s 17th great-grandson, and Doyle was his 15th great-grandson.
Additionally, researchers at the University of Leicester have found that Cumberbatch is related to King Richard III, whom he played in The Hollow Crown.
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