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28 St. Martin's Road

In Stockwell in 1891, Revd Selby Watson, a noted classical scholar and ex-headmaster of Stockwell Grammar School, at the age of 67 murdered his Irish-born wife at No. 28 St. Martin?s Road. His age, and the apparent lack of motive for the crime, led to his death sentence being commuted. He is probably the only murderer to have been accorded a Times obituary and a notice in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Watson's Apology is the fictional account of the real events.