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Dr Watson

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John H. Watson, MD, friend of Sherlock Holmes.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dr Watson

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Holmes & Watson - Barts

The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A S...

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion

Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion - lost

The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since ...

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Person, Literature, Burma, Serbia

1 memorial
Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Elizabeth Rundle Charles

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1 memorial
Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton

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Person, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Poetry, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Barbara Pym

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1 memorial
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Event, Law

1 memorial
Morris Leivesley

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54 years secretary of the Foundling Hospital.

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1 memorial
William Congreve

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1 memorial
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Person, Exploring, Politics & Administration, India

3 memorials
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Person, Tragedy, Scotland, USA

1 memorial