When Helen and her twin sister, Julia, were only two-years-old, their wealthy widowed mother married Dr. Grimesby Roylott, a professional and successful doctor who lived in Calcutta. It seemed that he had been a decent husband and stepfather, for Helen did not mention him being abusive in any way towards her or her family in her later accounting to Holmes.
However, Helen noted that his anger could lead him to be excessively irrational and violent - he once beat his native butler to death, for which he narrowly escaped a capital sentence, though he was still imprisoned for a long time. a client of Sherlock Holmes as well as the one of the protagonist's