Friends Abroad

Australia Canada Denmark France Italy Spain Sweden United Kingdom
(The individuals mentioned on this page have had extensive interaction with Nashville Scholars.)

”To me the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship.”— Jeremy Brett

Australia

In 2016 the podcast I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere aired a most interesting interview with Bill Barnes of the Sydney Passengers. Click to listen

Bill Barnes - Leader of the Sydney Passengers Sherlockian society
Sydney Passengers on Facebook

Phil Cornell - Professional artist and illustrator for Sydney Passengers.
Phil Cornell is an Honorary Member of the Nashville Scholars.
Phil’s Facebook Page

Self-portrait of Phil Cornell.

Canada

(Not abroad exactly, but our friends to the North)

Bootmakers of Toronto (The Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada)



Mark Alberstat - Facebook page and Editor of Canadian Holmes (Mark’s wife JoAnn is co-editor)
Peggy Perdue - Formerly the librarian of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Reference Library - Facebook page
Charles Prepolec -Freelance writer and editor, creator of the Baker Street Dozen website - Facebook page
Chris Redmond - Creator of the Sherlockian.net * the most quoted Sherlockian website in history (that may be an exaggeration, but it’s mine)
Chris is a Non-Resident member of the Nashville Scholars.
Winner of the Morley-Montgomery Award in 2015 for “Dr. Hill Barton Pays a Call” (best article published in the Baker Street Journal).

Chris Redmond


*Here’s a bit of history about this remarkable website. It was launched on November 22, 1994, at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada by Chris Redmond. At that time, it was the only Sherlockian website in the world, with fewer than a dozen links to online material about Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian era. In January 2000, it moved the website to its own domain on a commercial server, establishing the site as Sherlockian (dot) Net.

Denmark

The Danish Baker Street Irregulars (Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark)

Mia Stampe Lagergaard, BSI - Facebook page
Mia Stampe Lagergaard has been a personal friend since my first BSI Weekend.
She is the only glaciologist I’ve ever known.

France

Sherlock Holmes Society of France - Société Sherlock Holmes de France

Le Cercle Holmésien de Paris - The other outstanding scion society of Paris

Chevalier Atlamont Dupin - Facebook page

Thierry Saint-Joanis - Facebook page
Former president of SSHF / BSI as M. Bertillon / Sherlock Holmes Society of London

Italy

Uno Studio in Holmes - Sherlock Holmes Society of Italy

Gabriele Mazzoni - Facebook Page 

Gabriele Mazzoni

Marino and Vicki (Risko) Alvarez visited Gabriele in his home in Empoli.
Gabriele Mazzoni is an Honorary Member of the Nashville Scholars.

Spain

CÍRCULO HOLMES (Sherlock Holmes Society of Spain)
Facebook page for CÍRCULO HOLMES

Miguel Ojeda - President of CÍRCULO HOLMES

Miguel Ojeda is an Honorary Member of the Nashville Scholars.
Dr. Marino Alvarez is of Spanish heritage, so it was a real joy for him and Vicki to be in Spain and attend one of the CÍRCULO HOLMES meetings, with Miguel Ojeda presiding as president.

Dr. Alvarez was invested into CÍRCULO HOLMES as “Professor Coram.”

Mattias with his investiture and NScholars Tee.


Mattias Boström - Facebook Page - Author of From Holmes to Sherlock (English translation, 2018)

Mattias Boström is an Honorary Member of the Nashville Scholars. In 2018 Mattias received the Agatha Christie award for Best Non-Fiction book of 2017, From Holmes to Sherlock. I met him in the Union train station in Washington, DC, and accompanied him to his flight back home to Sweden out of the Newark, NJ airport.

United Kingdom

Sherlock Holmes Society of London
A literary and social Society for study of the life and work of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Roger Johnson and Jean Upton - Editors of the District Messenger, newsletter of the Society.
Roger and Jean are Honorary Members of the Nashville Scholars.

Colin Preece received his N Scholars investiture in person from Vicki and Marino on their visit to the United Kingdom.

Ross Foad is an honorary member of Nashville Scholars.

Marino Alvarez with Jean Upton & Roger Johnson (Click to enlarge)


Roger Johnson and Jean Upton are honorary members of Nashville Scholars. They were close associates of the cast and crew for the Granada productions of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett.
Speedy’s was where one often found the actors and crew during a shoot.
We highly recommend their book, The Sherlock Holmes Miscellany (The History Press, 2012.) Available here.

A Nashville Scholars interview with Roger and Jean
(10 pp. PDF, downloadable) by Dean Richardson and Jim Hawkins