Who is Henry?

Henry Baskerville was the next of kin of Sir Charles Baskerville and the son of his younger brother. As a young man he had been last heard of in America and enquiries had been instituted to inform him of his good fortune. Upon our encounter with the baronet, we find him to be a man of about thirty years of age, small, alert, dark-eyed, very sturdily built with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face. He wore a ruddy-tinted tweed suit at that time and had a weather-beaten appearance of one who had spent most of time in the open air. Yet he had something in his steady eye and quiet assurance of his bearing which indicated the gentleman in him. Sir Henry had the blood of the Baskervilles in him which is evident from the obduracy with which he met obstacles. There was also a sensitive side to him.