Episode 420 - Bonus Material

William S. Baring-Gould's Sherlock Holmes Society of London tie

This is bonus content from Episode 420:

Episode 420 - Who Wasn't Jack the Ripper

William S. Baring-Gould, BSI (“The Gloria Scott“) was invested into the Baker Street Irregulars in 1952. He was a noted Sherlockian scholar, authoring Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective (1962) and editor of the groundbreaking The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (1967).

Bill Baring-Gould never lived to see his magnum opus in print, as he died in August 1967, months before The Annotated was published.

Bill’s tie from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London was given to Bruce Kennedy, BSI (“Bannister“) by Baring-Gould’s widow Ceil, in 1967. Ceil would be honored as “The Woman” at the 1969 BSI dinner.

Harold “Tyke” Niver, BSI (“The Man on the Tor”) purchased the tie from Bruce’s collection in 1986 and subsequently gave it to Scott, who now counts it as part of his collection.

The photos below include the documentation as well as the tie.