Watson had a bull pup before he moved into 221B Baker Street in the first Sherlock Holmes book ,"A Study in Scarlet." It was not named and never heard of again. The name of Holmes and Watson's bulldog in Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes is Gladstone. He seems to be named after William Gladstone, four-time Prime Minister under Queen Victoria. A Gladstone is also a type of bag, named after the man, which was sometimes used by doctors in this period to carry their medical equipment.
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