In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” what is the bridegroom’s title?

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, the bridegroom is Lord Robert St. Simon.

Lord St. Simon seeks Holmes’s help after his bride, Hatty Doran, disappears immediately after their wedding ceremony. The case appears to involve a vanished bride, a suspicious former relationship, and a public scandal among London’s wealthy social circles.

Hatty is the daughter of a wealthy California gold-mining millionaire. Before marrying Lord St. Simon, she had been involved with Frank Moulton, whom she believed had died. Moulton is actually alive, and Hatty leaves the wedding breakfast after recognizing him.

The story first appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1892 and was later collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. “Noble bachelor” describes Lord St. Simon’s aristocratic status before marriage, not a hereditary rank such as duke or marquess.