Sir Reginald George Watson | |
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11th British Resident of Perak | |
In office 1913–1919 | |
Preceded by | William James Parke Hume |
Succeeded by | Sir William George Maxwell |
Personal details | |
Born | June 1862 Portland Place,Bath |
Died | 1926 63) | (aged
Spouse | Sydney Francis Vivien Presgrave Margaret Niven |
Sir Reginald George Watson CMG was born in June 1862,in Portland Place,Bath. He was the son of General E.D. Watson of Bengal Army. Watson married Sydney Francis Vivien Presgrave. He died in 1926.
Watson received his education at Haileybury College,Hertford,England and was the Straits Settlements Civil Service cadet in 1883,Private Secretary to Sir Cecil Clementi Smith,1884- 1885;Officer of Land Office,Malacca (1887),British Resident of Perak (1913–1919).
Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist,biophysicist,and neuroscientist. He,James Watson,Rosalind Franklin,and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902,it is set largely in Dartmoor,Devon in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome,diabolical hound of supernatural origin. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem",and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
"The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" is a Sherlock Holmes story by Adrian Conan Doyle,the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Collier's on 18 September 1953,and was illustrated by Robert Fawcett in Collier's. The story was also included in the 1967 anthology Seventeen Steps to 221B.
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Sir John Watson Gordon was a Scottish portrait painter and president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
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Ian Fleming was an Australian character actor with credits in over 100 British films. One of his best known roles was playing Dr Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes films of the 1930s opposite Arthur Wontner's Holmes.
Robert Boog Watson FRSE was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans from 1873 to 1876. Watson also described various Opisthobranchia from Madeira.
Sir James Oxenden,2nd Baronet,of Dene,Kent was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1679 and 1702.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1932 British mystery film directed by Gareth Gundrey and starring John Stuart,Robert Rendel and Frederick Lloyd. It is based on the 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle,in which Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate a suspicious death on Dartmoor. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures. The screenplay was written by Edgar Wallace.
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse is a 1983 Australian animated television film directed by Eddie Graham. It is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902),the third of his novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.
The 1917 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election was held on 10 August 1917. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Conservative MP,Sir Christopher Johnston,becoming a Senator of the College of Justice. It was won by the Conservative candidate Watson Cheyne,who was unopposed due to a War-time electoral pact.
The 1931 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 17 November 1931 at the advice of the Prime Minister,Ramsay MacDonald.
Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities is a mystery novel by James Lovegrove. It is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that involves H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. It is the second book in the Cthulhu Casebooks trilogy,with the first novel,Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows,having been released a year previously.
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear is a 1983 Australian animated television film produced by Tom Stacey and George Stephenson for Burbank Films. It is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Valley of Fear (1915),the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.
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