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Full name is John H. Watson. It was Dorothy Sayers who first speculated that the 'H' stood for Hamish because Watson's wife called him James in 'The Man With the Twisted Lip,' and Hamish is the Scottish form for James yet his middle name is never actually given in the Conan Doyle stories.

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