Read more about Dr. Watson at: Wikipedia Official Site: Arthur Conan Doyle John H. Watson, M.D., known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle. He is Sherlock Holmes' assistant and flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Part one of the very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, is subtitled ' Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department. ' . Watson's wife calls him 'James' in "The Man with the Twisted Lip", but this is widely believed to be a mistake on the part of the author. In "The Problem of Thor Bridge," Watson refers to his dispatch box being labeled with the name "John H. Watson, MD" but in every other occasion, he is referred to as Doctor or Watson, or both names together, and his first name is never used again. In the debut Holmes story A Study in Scarlet, Watson, as the narrator, tells us that he had received his medical degree from the University of London in 1878, and had subsequently gone for training as an Army surgeon. He then joined British forces in India, saw service in Afghanistan, was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand (27 July 1880), and after months of recovery, was sent back to England on the troopship HMS Orontes. In England the action of the story begins, presumably in late 1880 or early 1881. He describes meeting Holmes, their subsequent sharing of rooms at 221B Baker Street, his attempts to discover the profession of his taciturn companion, Holmes's eventual taking of Watson, and the events surrounding their first case together. Watson describes Holmes and his methods in detail, but in too romantic and sentimental a manner for Holmes's taste. In time, they become close friends. In The Sign of the Four, John Watson meets Mary Morstan, who becomes his wife. In "The Adventure of the Empty House", the first story after Holmes's return (he had been thought dead for three years), Watson states that "Holmes had while away learned of my own sad bereavement and his sympathy was shown through his manner rather than in his words." This indicates that Watson has lost someone significant to death, almost certainly his wife; that fact is confirmed when he moves back to Baker Street to share lodgings with Holmes, as he had done as a bachelor. Conan Doyle made mention of a second wife in "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" and "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier", but this wife was never named, described, or explained. American author Michael Mallory began a series of stories in the mid-1990s featuring this second wife, whom he called Amelia Watson. In Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, Watson's second wife is Violet Hunter, from "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches".
Dr. Watson has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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