Mycroft
Mycroft is an English proper name (derived from the Old English elements mýðe "the mouth of a stream" and croft),[1] which may refer to:
Fictional characters
- Mycroft Helerns, one of the main characters in the horror series "Ghost-Ghost", by Marker Ellingsen.
- Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels
- Mycroft Holmes, a computer in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
People
- Frank Mycroft (1873–1900), an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895
- Thomas Mycroft (1848–1911), an English cricketer
- William Mycroft (1841–1894), an English cricketer
- Ian Gillies (1927–2002), question setter and arbiter of the BBC Radio 4 quiz series Brain of Britain
See also
- Mycroft Next, a character from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of books
- Mycroft & Moran, an imprint of Arkham House publishers
Notes
- ↑ "Last name: Mycroft". Name Origin Research. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
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