Dr Watsonish

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Dr. Watsonish.

   Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins.

   1948 March 17, “Hull Amateurs in ‘Pygmalion’”, in The Daily Mail, number 19,446, Hull, page three

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   Richard Davis drew a similar analogy in Films and Filming’s issue of July 1967, Walters’s “Dr Watsonish assistant” reminding him “irresistibly of Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles.”

   1995 July, “Comment”, in Hammer Horror, number 5, London: Marvel Comics UK Ltd

   The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing.

   2009 October 3, Craig Brown, “Was his diary his downfall?”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023

   Avery, the Dr Watsonish narrator, is a well-to-do ex-soldier who touchingly believes that English gentlemen always tell the truth and do the right thing.

   2015 April 23, Jake Kerridge, “The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter, review: 'subtle'”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023