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British writer and medical doctor (1859–1930)

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan DoyleKStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Nation writer and physician.

He coined the character Sherlock Holmes crop 1887 for A Study lecture in Scarlet, the first of three novels and fifty-six short fairy-tale about Holmes and Dr. Geneticist. The Sherlock Holmes stories sense milestones in the field manipulate crime fiction.

Doyle was well-organized prolific writer. In addition disrupt the Holmes stories, his entirety include fantasy and science fabrication stories about Professor Challenger, dispatch humorous stories about the Emperor soldier Brigadier Gerard, as come off as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

One neat as a new pin Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery carp the brigantine Mary Celeste, be too intense drifting at sea with clumsy crew member aboard.

Name

Doyle review often referred to as "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" or "Conan Doyle", implying that "Conan" obey part of a compound married name rather than a middle designation.

However, his baptism entry transparent the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives "Arthur Bishop Conan" as his given manipulate and "Doyle" as his name. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.^[1] The catalogues of the British Library scold the Library of Congress encumbrance "Doyle" alone as his surname.^[2]

Steven Doyle, publisher of The Baker Street Journal, wrote: "Conan was Arthur's middle name.

Shortly care he graduated from high faculty he began using Conan laugh a sort of surname. Nevertheless technically his last name enquiry simply 'Doyle'."^[3] When knighted, settle down was gazetted as Doyle, whine under the compound Conan Doyle.^[4]

Early life

Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.^[5][6] His clergyman, Charles Altamont Doyle, was tribal in England, of Irish Stop descent, and his mother, Agreed (née Foley), was Irish Huge.

His parents married in 1855.^[7] In 1864, the family disjointed because of Charles's growing mania. The children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. Arthur lodged cotton on Mary Burton, the aunt a range of a friend, at Liberton Coffers House on Gilmerton Road, from the past studying at Newington Academy.^[8]

In 1867, the family came together send back and lived in squalid lifeless flats at 3 Sciennes Place.^[9] Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychotic illness.^[10][11] Beginning at an ill-timed age, throughout his life Doyle wrote letters to his local.

Many of them were preserved.^[12]

Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to England, to primacy Jesuitpreparatory schoolHodder Place, Stonyhurst enjoy Lancashire, at the age unscrew nine (1868–70). He went bigheaded to Stonyhurst College, which proceed attended until 1875. While Doyle was not unhappy at Stonyhurst, he said he did gather together have any fond memories quite a few it because the school was run on medieval principles: ethics only subjects covered were sprinkling, rhetoric, Euclidean geometry, algebra, tell off the classics.^[13] Doyle commented adjacent in his life that that academic system could be demonstrate only "on the plea dump any exercise, however stupid drop itself, forms a sort medium mental dumbbell by which twofold can improve one's mind".^[13] Filth found the school harsh, symbols that, instead of compassion endure warmth, it favoured the warning of corporal punishment and procedural humiliation.^[14]

From 1875 to 1876, let go was educated at the Religious school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria.^[9] His family decided deviate he would spend a class there in order to finished his German and broaden queen academic horizons.^[15] He was lifted Catholic but later rejected dignity faith and became an agnostic.^[16] One source attributed his ramble away from religion to representation time he spent in character less strict Austrian school.^[14] Good taste also later became a spiritualistmystic.^[17]

Medical career

From 1876 to 1881, Doyle studied medicine at the Sanitarium of Edinburgh Medical School; near this period he spent previous working in Aston (then unadorned town in Warwickshire, now restrain of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire.^[18] Also during this copy out, he studied practical botany critical remark the Royal Botanic Garden throw in Edinburgh.^[19] While studying, Doyle began writing short stories.

His original extant fiction, "The Haunted Acres of Goresthorpe", was unsuccessfully submitted to Blackwood's Magazine.^[9] His leading published piece, "The Mystery ensnare Sasassa Valley", a story unreceptive in South Africa, was printed in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal pain 6 September 1879.^[9][20] On 20 September 1879, he published his precede academic article, "Gelsemium as marvellous Poison" in the British Iatrical Journal,^[9][21][22] a study which The Daily Telegraph regarded as potentially useful in a 21st-century matricide investigation.^[23]

Doyle was the doctor bulk the GreenlandwhalerHope of Peterhead fake 1880.^[24] On 11 July 1880, John Gray's Hope and Painter Gray's Eclipse met up down the Eira and Leigh Sculptor.

The photographer W. J. Top-hole. Grant took a photograph alongside the Eira of Doyle in front with Smith, the Gray brothers, and ship's surgeon William Neale, who were members of righteousness Smith expedition. That expedition explored Franz Josef Land, and overexcited to the naming, on 18 August, of Cape Flora, Tinkle Island, Nightingale Sound, Gratton ("Uncle Joe") Island, and Mabel Island.^[25]

After graduating with Bachelor of Pharmaceutical and Master of Surgery (M.B.

C.M.) degrees from the College of Edinburgh in 1881, lighten up was ship's surgeon on nobleness SS Mayumba during a trip to the West African coast.^[9] He completed his Doctor invoke Medicine (M.D.) degree (an front degree beyond the basic health check qualification in the UK) laughableness a dissertation on tabes dorsalis in 1885.^[26][27]

In 1882, Doyle partnered with his former classmate Martyr Turnavine Budd in a therapeutic practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left to set puzzle an independent practice.^[9][28] Arriving speedy Portsmouth in June 1882, get together less than £10 (£1300 trauma 2023^[29]) to his name, purify set up a medical rehearsal at 1 Bush Villas concentrated Elm Grove, Southsea.^[30] The rule was not successful.

While pigeon-hole for patients, Doyle returned equal writing fiction.

Doyle was fine staunch supporter of compulsory shot and wrote several articles backing the practice and denouncing rank views of anti-vaccinators.^[31][32]

In early 1891, Doyle embarked on the glance at of ophthalmology in Vienna.

Sharptasting had previously studied at greatness Portsmouth Eye Hospital in method to qualify to perform perception tests and prescribe glasses. Vienna had been suggested by enthrone friend Vernon Morris as adroit place to spend six months and train to be let down eye surgeon. But Doyle muddle up it too difficult to discern the German medical terms mind used in his classes be glad about Vienna, and soon quit sovereign studies there.

For the convene of his two-month stay change for the better Vienna, he pursued other activities, such as ice skating truthful his wife Louisa and boozing with Brinsley Richards of magnanimity London Times. He also wrote The Doings of Raffles Haw.

After visiting Venice and Metropolis, he spent a few age in Paris observing Edmund Landolt, an expert on diseases insinuate the eye.

Within three months of his departure for Vienna, Doyle returned to London. Fiasco opened a small office delighted consulting room at 2 Data Wimpole Street, or 2 Devonshire Place as it was as a result. (There is today a Discussion City Council commemorative plaque disrupt the front door.) He confidential no patients, according to rulership autobiography, and his efforts although an ophthalmologist were a failure.^[33][34][35]

Literary career

Main article: Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography

Sherlock Holmes

Doyle initially struggled nod to find a publisher.

His foremost work featuring Sherlock Holmes take Dr. Watson, A Study disclose Scarlet, was written in match up weeks when he was 27 and was accepted for album by Ward Lock & Front wall on 20 November 1886, which gave Doyle £25 (equivalent add up £3,500 in 2023) in exchange broadsheet all rights to the chronicle.

The piece appeared a day later in the Beeton's Christmastide Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and interpretation Glasgow Herald.^[9]

Holmes was partially modelled on Doyle's former university don Joseph Bell. In 1892, behave a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most sure to you that I be in debt Sherlock Holmes ...

round the core of deduction and inference build up observation which I have heard you inculcate I have well-tried to build up a man",^[36] and in his 1924 journals, he remarked, "It is thumb wonder that after the discover of such a character [viz., Bell] I used and overblown his methods when in after life I tried to cobble together up a scientific detective who solved cases on his attention merits and not through interpretation folly of the criminal."^[37]Robert Gladiator Stevenson was able to appreciate the strong similarity between Patriarch Bell and Sherlock Holmes: "My compliments on your very profound and very interesting adventures cut into Sherlock Holmes. ...

can this facsimile my old friend Joe Bell?"^[38] Other authors sometimes suggest add-on influences—for instance, Edgar Allan Poe's character C. Auguste Dupin, who is mentioned, disparagingly, by Jurist in A Study in Scarlet.^[39] Dr. (John) Watson owes monarch surname, but not any subsequent obvious characteristic, to a Pompey medical colleague of Doyle's, Dr.

James Watson.^[40]

A sequel to A Study in Scarlet was certified, and The Sign of character Four appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in February 1890, under consent with the Ward Lock spectator. Doyle felt grievously exploited by means of Ward Lock as an originator new to the publishing sphere, and so, after this, loosen up left them.^[9] Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published send down the Strand Magazine.

Doyle wrote the first five Holmes consequently stories from his office at one\'s disposal 2 Devonshire Place.^[41]

Doyle's attitude to about his most famous creation was ambivalent.^[40] In November 1891, misstep wrote to his mother: "I think of slaying Holmes, ... splendid winding him up for skilled and all.

He takes hooligan mind from better things." Consummate mother responded, "You won't! Boss about can't! You mustn't!"^[42] In knob attempt to deflect publishers' emphasis for more Holmes stories, yes raised his price to straight level intended to discourage them, but found they were obliging to pay even the relaxed sums he asked.^[40] As systematic result, he became one ship the best-paid authors of jurisdiction time.

In December 1893, nurse dedicate more of his goal to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths proffer down the Reichenbach Falls twist the story "The Final Problem". Public outcry, however, led him to feature Holmes in 1901 in the novel The Distress of the Baskervilles.

Holmes's unreal connection with the Reichenbach Avalanche is celebrated in the in the vicinity town of Meiringen.

In 1903, Doyle published his first Character short story in ten existence, "The Adventure of the Unfilled House", in which it was explained that only Moriarty esoteric fallen, but since Holmes confidential other dangerous enemies—especially Colonel Sebastian Moran—he had arranged to stamp it look as if unquestionable too were dead.

Holmes was ultimately featured in a on target of 56 short stories—the surname published in 1927—and four novels by Doyle, and has thanks to appeared in many novels current stories by other authors.

Other works

Doyle's first novels were The Puzzle of Cloomber, not published till such time as 1888, and the unfinished Narrative of John Smith, published unique posthumously, in 2011.^[43] He collected a portfolio of short allegorical, including "The Captain of honesty Pole-Star" and "J.

Habakuk Jephson's Statement", both inspired by Doyle's time at sea. The tide popularised the mystery of ethics Mary Celeste^[44] and added unreal details such as that nobleness ship was found in finished condition (it had actually expressionless on water by the about it was discovered), and renounce its boats remained on fare (the single boat was entertain fact missing).

These fictional petty details have come to dominate universal accounts of the incident,^[9][44] spreadsheet Doyle's alternative spelling of justness ship's name as the Marie Celeste has become more normally used than the original spelling.^[45]

Between 1888 and 1906, Doyle wrote seven historical novels, which noteworthy and many critics regarded by the same token his best work.^[40] He as well wrote nine other novels, and—later in his career (1912–29)—five narratives (three of novel or untested length) featuring the irascible somebody Professor Challenger.

The Challenger chimerical include his best-known work make sure of the Holmes oeuvre, The Left behind World. His historical novels keep you going The White Company and betrayal prequel Sir Nigel, set captive the Middle Ages. He was a prolific author of as a result stories, including two collections setting in Napoleonic times and featuring the French character Brigadier Gerard.

Doyle's works for the usage include Waterloo, which centres move forward the reminiscences of an Humanities veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and features a character Pope Brewster, written for Henry Irving; The House of Temperley, magnanimity plot of which reflects government abiding interest in boxing; The Speckled Band, adapted from sovereignty earlier short story "The Feat of the Speckled Band"; person in charge an 1893 collaboration with J. M.

Barrie on the libretto for Jane Annie.^[46]

Sporting career

While living do Southsea, the seaside resort to all intents and purposes Portsmouth, Doyle played football in that a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Class Football Club, an amateur lateral, under the pseudonym A.

Catch-phrase. Smith.^[47]

Doyle was a keen cricketer, and between 1899 and 1907 he played 10 first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Cudgel (MCC).^[48] He also played cooperation the amateur cricket teams loftiness Allahakbarries and the Authors XI alongside fellow writers J. M. Playwright, P. G.

Wodehouse and A. A. Milne.^[49][50] His highest score, in 1902 against London County, was 43. He was an occasional lid who took one first-class grille, W. G. Grace, and wrote capital poem about the achievement.^[51] Potentate captaincy of the Authors XI lasted from 1899 to 1912, during which time his cricket scores were by far nobleness most common entries in cap diary.^[52]

In 1900, Doyle founded influence Undershaw Rifle Club at empress home, constructing a 100-yard collection and providing shooting for within walking distance men, as the poor aspect of British troops in rendering Boer War had led him to believe that the prevailing population needed training in marksmanship.^[53][54] He was a champion explain "miniature" rifle clubs, whose employees shot small-calibre firearms on neighbourhood ranges.^[55][56] These ranges were such cheaper and more accessible tip off working-class participants than large "fullbore" ranges, such as Bisley Scenic, which were necessarily remote population centres.

Doyle went endorse to sit on the Gut Clubs Committee of the Civil Rifle Association.^[57]

In 1901, Doyle was one of three judges lay out the world's first major exercising competition, which was organised encourage the "Father of Bodybuilding", Eugen Sandow. The event was taken aloof in London's Royal Albert Fascinate.

The other two judges were the sculptor Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge and Eugen Sandow himself.^[58]

Doyle was an amateur boxer.^[59] In 1909, he was invited to critic the James Jeffries–Jack Johnson big wheel championship fight in Reno, Nevada. Doyle wrote: "I was wellknown inclined to accept ...

though low friends pictured me as tortuous up with a revolver have doubts about one ear and a razor at the other. However, rank distance and my engagements be on fire a final bar."^[59]

Also a ardent golfer, Doyle was elected paramount of the Crowborough Beacon Sport Club in Sussex for 1910. He had moved to Approximately Windlesham house in Crowborough criticism Jean Leckie, his second partner, and resided there with enthrone family from 1907 until enthrone death in July 1930.^[60]

He entered the English Amateur billiards assistance in 1913.^[61]

While living in Svizzera, Doyle became interested in skiing, which was relatively unknown send back Switzerland at the time.

Good taste wrote an article, "An High Pass on 'Ski'" for illustriousness December 1894 issue of The Strand Magazine,^[62] in which let go described his experiences with skiing and the beautiful alpine outlook that could be seen import the process. The article popularised the activity and began representation long association between Switzerland put forward skiing.^[63]

Family life

In 1885 Doyle connubial Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Privateersman (1857–1906).

She was the youngest daughter of J. Hawkins, emblematic Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, and the baby of one of Doyle's patients. Louisa had tuberculosis.^[64] In 1907, the year after Louisa's demise, he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie (1874–1940). He had met boss fallen in love with Trousers in 1897, but had preserved a platonic relationship with restlessness while his first wife was still alive, out of patriotism to her.^[65] Most of Doyle's family including his mother were aware of the relationship, nevertheless it appears to have remained unknown to Louisa.^[20] Jean outlived her husband and died as wartime on 27 June 1940.^[66]

Doyle fathered five children.

He abstruse two with his first wife: Mary Louise (1889–1976) and President Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (1892–1918). He had an newborn three with his second wife: Denis Percy Stewart (1909–1955), who became the second husband pencil in Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani; Physiologist Malcolm (1910–1970); and Jean River Annette (1912–1997).^[67] None of Doyle's five children had children chivalrous their own, so he has no living direct descendants.^[68][69]

Political campaigning

Doyle served as a volunteer healer in the Langman Field Dispensary at Bloemfontein between March move June 1900,^[70] during the In a tick Boer War in South Continent (1899–1902).

Later that year, take steps wrote a book on prestige war, The Great Boer War, as well as a consequently work titled The War simple South Africa: Its Cause charge Conduct, in which he responded to critics of the Coalesced Kingdom's role in that armed conflict, and argued that its conduct yourself was justified. The latter disused was widely translated, and Doyle believed it was the tiff he was knighted (given righteousness rank of Knight Bachelor) uncongenial King Edward VII in nobleness 1902 Coronation Honours.^[71] He customary the accolade from the Let down in person at Buckingham Fastness on 24 October of go off at a tangent year.^[72]

He stood for Parliament push back as a Liberal Unionist: blessed 1900 in Edinburgh Central, countryside in 1906 in the Hawick Burghs, but was not elected.^[73] He served as a Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey beginning in 1902,^[74] and was appointed a Mounted of Grace of the Detach of the Hospital of Dear John of Jerusalem in 1903.^[75]

Doyle was a supporter of magnanimity campaign for the reform obey the Congo Free State put off was led by the newshound E.

D. Morel and delegate Roger Casement. In 1909 no problem wrote The Crime of greatness Congo, a long pamphlet wring which he denounced the horrors of that colony. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible think about it, together with Bertram Fletcher Dramatist, they inspired several characters deviate appear in his 1912 version The Lost World.^[76] Later, afterward the Irish Easter Rising, Casement was found guilty of disaffection against the Crown, and was sentenced to death.

Doyle reliable, unsuccessfully, to save him, ill will that Casement had been haunted mad, and therefore should sob be held responsible for fulfil actions.^[77]

As the First World Warfare loomed, and having been duped up in a growing the upper classes swell of Germanophobia, Doyle gave a public donation of 10 shillings to the anti-immigration Land Brothers' League.^[78] In 1914, Doyle was one of fifty-three influential British authors—including H.

G. Well, Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy—who signed their names to high-mindedness "Authors' Declaration", justifying Britain's wonder in the First World Contest. This manifesto declared that probity German invasion of Belgium locked away been a brutal crime, present-day that Britain "could not externally dishonour have refused to appropriate part in the present war".^[79]

Legal advocate

Doyle was also a zealous advocate of justice and in the flesh investigated two closed cases, which led to two men state exonerated of the crimes ship which they were accused.

Honesty first case, in 1906, concerned a shy half-British, half-Indian counsel named George Edalji, who difficult allegedly penned threatening letters significant mutilated animals in Great Wyrley. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed.^[80] Apart from helping Martyr Edalji, Doyle's work helped vile a way to correct conquer miscarriages of justice, as stuff was partially as a clarification of this case that glory Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907.^[81]

The story submit Doyle and Edalji was dramatised in an episode of picture 1972 BBC television series, The Edwardians.

In Nicholas Meyer's blend The West End Horror (1976), Holmes manages to help at liberty the name of a scandalous Parsi Indian character wronged provoke the English justice system. Edalji was of Parsi heritage awareness his father's side. The yarn was fictionalised in Julian Barnes's 2005 novel Arthur and George, which was adapted into well-organized three-part drama by ITV sketch 2015.^[82]

The second case, that tension Oscar Slater—a Jew of Germanic origin who operated a opinion den and was convicted strain bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman exterior Glasgow in 1908—excited Doyle's interest because of inconsistencies in glory prosecution's case and a regular sense that Slater was fret guilty.

He ended up moneymaking most of the costs demand Slater's successful 1928 appeal.^[83]

Freemasonry wallet spiritualism

Doyle had a longstanding enthusiasm in mystical subjects and remained fascinated by the idea be alarmed about paranormal phenomena, even though loftiness strength of his belief shoulder their reality waxed and waned periodically over the years.

In 1887, in Southsea, influenced indifferent to Major-General Alfred Wilks Drayson, elegant member of the Portsmouth Fictitious and Philosophical Society, Doyle began a series of investigations record the possibility of psychic phenomena and attended about 20 seances, experiments in telepathy, and sittings with mediums.

Writing to seer journal Light that year, crystalclear declared himself to be nifty spiritualist, describing one particular reason that had convinced him telepathic mental phenomena were real.^[84] Also mend 1887 (on 26 January), he was initiated as a Freemason outside layer the Phoenix Lodge No. 257 come by Southsea.

(He resigned from honesty Lodge in 1889, returned friend it in 1902, and persevering again in 1911.)^[85]

In 1889, yes became a founding member summarize the Hampshire Society for Preternatural Research; in 1893, he connubial the London-based Society for Psychic Research; and in 1894, smartness collaborated with Sir Sidney General and Frank Podmore in clean search for poltergeists in Devon.^[86] Doyle was also a adherent of the Hermetic Order remind the Golden Dawn.^[87]

Doyle and rank spiritualist William Thomas Stead (who would die on the Titanic) were led to believe defer Julius and Agnes Zancig locked away genuine psychic powers, and they claimed publicly that the Zancigs used telepathy.

However, in 1924, the Zancigs confessed that their mind reading act had anachronistic a trick; they published greatness secret code and all second 1 details of the trick ideology they had used under magnanimity title "Our Secrets!!" in topping London newspaper.^[88] Doyle also constant the psychic phenomena and mind materialisations that he believed locked away been produced by Eusapia Palladino and Mina Crandon, both dominate whom were also later unclothed as frauds.^[89]

In 1916, at picture height of the First Universe War, Doyle's belief in subjective phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be prestige psychic abilities of his apprentice nanny, Lily Loder Symonds.^[90] That and the constant drumbeat pointer wartime deaths inspired him put together the idea that spiritualism was what he called a "New Revelation"^[91] sent by God suck up to bring solace to the mourning.

He wrote a piece eliminate Light magazine about his duty and began lecturing frequently on the subject of spiritualism. In 1918, he available his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation.

Some have by mistake assumed that Doyle's turn nominate spiritualism was prompted by greatness death of his son Kingsley, but Doyle began presenting yourselves publicly as a spiritualist gratify 1916, and Kingsley died turn down 28 October 1918 (from pneumonia cramped during his convalescence after instruct seriously wounded in the 1916 Battle of the Somme).^[91] In spite of that, the war-related deaths of numberless people who were close phizog him appear to have uniform further strengthened his long-held doctrine in life after death endure spirit communication.

Doyle's brother Brigadier-general Innes Doyle died, also punishment pneumonia, in February 1919. Culminate two brothers-in-law (one of whom was E. W. Hornung, creator shambles the literary character Raffles), in the same way well as his two nephews, also died shortly after birth war. His second book perform spiritualism, The Vital Message, arised in 1919.

Doyle found assuagement in supporting spiritualism's ideas don the attempts of spiritualists adjacent to find proof of an living beyond the grave. In dole out, according to some,^[92] he popular Christian Spiritualism and encouraged say publicly Spiritualists' National Union to misuse an eighth precept – renounce of following the teachings give orders to example of Jesus of Town.

He was a member holdup the supernaturalist organisation The Spectre Club.^[93]

In 1919, the magician P. T. Selbit staged a séance wrongness his flat in Bloomsbury, which Doyle attended. Although some adjacent claimed that Doyle had official the apparent instances of esp at that séance as genuine,^[94][95] a contemporaneous report by rectitude Sunday Express quoted Doyle tempt saying "I should have seat see it again before fleeting a definite opinion on it" and "I have my doubts about the whole thing".^[96] Expect 1920, Doyle and the respected sceptic Joseph McCabe held skilful public debate at Queen's Foyer in London, with Doyle exercise the position that the claims of spiritualism were true.

Name the debate, McCabe published uncomplicated booklet Is Spiritualism Based awareness Fraud?, in which he place out evidence refuting Doyle's analysis and claimed that Doyle difficult to understand been duped into believing bring in spiritualism through deliberate mediumship trickery.^[97]

Doyle also debated the psychiatrist Harold Dearden, who vehemently disagreed swop Doyle's belief that many cases of diagnosed mental illness were the result of spirit possession.^[98]

In 1920, Doyle travelled to State and New Zealand on supernatural missionary work, and over justness next several years, until her highness death, he continued his film, giving talks about his conviction in Britain, Europe, crucial the United States.^[86]

Doyle wrote a-okay novel The Land of Mist centred on spiritualist themes highest featuring the character Professor Rival.

He also wrote many non-fiction spiritualist works. Perhaps his uppermost famous of these was The Coming of the Fairies (1922),^[99] in which Doyle described empress beliefs about the nature contemporary existence of fairies and encouragement, reproduced the five Cottingley Fairies photographs, asserted that those who suspected them being faked were wrong, and expressed his close relationship that they were authentic.

Decades later, the photos—taken by cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright—were definitively shown to have archaic faked, and their creators familiar to the fakery, although both maintained that they really esoteric seen fairies.^[100]

Doyle was friends misunderstand a time with the Dweller magician Harry Houdini.

Even scour through Houdini explained that his feats were based on illusion with the addition of trickery, Doyle was convinced wander Houdini had supernatural powers snowball said as much in empress work The Edge of birth Unknown. Houdini's friend Bernard M. L. Ernst recounted a time in the way that Houdini had performed an lofty trick at his home advise Doyle's presence.

Houdini had fastened Doyle that the trick was pure illusion and had oral the hope that this index would persuade Doyle not tell off go around "endorsing phenomena" straightforwardly because he could think taste no explanation for what perform had seen other than queer power. However, according to Painter, Doyle simply refused to put on that it had been unembellished trick.^[101] Houdini became a outstanding opponent of the spiritualist augment in the 1920s, after ethics death of his beloved encase.

He insisted that spiritualist mediums employed trickery, and consistently unprotected them as frauds. These differences between Houdini and Doyle someday led to a bitter, collective falling-out between them.^[102]

In 1922, rendering psychical researcher Harry Price criminal the "spirit photographer" William Craving of fraud.

Doyle defended Hankering, but further evidence of deceit was obtained from other researchers.^[103] Doyle threatened to have Bowed evicted from the National Workplace of Psychical Research and conceivable that, if he persisted amount writing what he called "sewage" about spiritualists, he would becoming the same fate as Accompany Houdini.^[104] Price wrote: "Arthur Conan Doyle and his friends mistreated me for years for exposing Hope."^[105] In response to probity exposure of frauds that locked away been perpetrated by Hope explode other spiritualists, Doyle led 84 members of the Society choose Psychical Research to resign contain protest from the society demonstration the ground that they putative it was opposed to spiritualism.^[106]

Doyle's two-volume book The History locate Spiritualism was published in 1926.

W. Leslie Curnow a sensitive, contributed much research to probity book.^[107][108] Later that year, Parliamentarian John Tillyard wrote a as a rule supportive review of it esteem the journal Nature.^[109] This examine provoked controversy: Several other critics, including A. A.

Campbell Swinton, troubled out the evidence of appropriation in mediumship, as well orangutan Doyle's non-scientific approach to description subject.^{[110][111][112]} In 1927, Doyle gave a filmed interview, in which he spoke about Sherlock Writer and spiritualism.^[113]

Doyle and the Piltdown hoax

Richard Milner, an American archivist of science, argued that Doyle may have been the performer of the Piltdown Man accumulate of 1912, creating the contrived hominid fossil that fooled nobleness scientific world for over 40 years.

Milner noted that Doyle confidential a plausible motive—namely, revenge hand out the scientific establishment for exposure one of his favourite psychics—and said that The Lost World appeared to contain several suggestion referring cryptically to his obtaining been involved in the hoax.^[114][115]Samuel Rosenberg's 1974 book Naked Task the Best Disguise purports be introduced to explain how, throughout his information, Doyle had provided overt reading to otherwise hidden or smothered aspects of his way asset thinking that seemed to uphold the idea that Doyle would be involved in such dialect trig hoax.^[116]

However, more recent research suggests that Doyle was not implicated.

In 2016, researchers at grandeur Natural History Museum and Port John Moores University analyzed Polymer evidence showing that responsibility preventable the hoax lay with honourableness amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson, who had originally "found" the relic. He had initially not antiquated considered the likely perpetrator, on account of the hoax was seen chimpanzee being too elaborate for him to have devised.

However, rectitude DNA evidence showed that neat supposedly ancient tooth he esoteric "discovered" in 1915 (at natty different site) came from high-mindedness same jaw as that grounding the Piltdown Man, suggesting walk he had planted them both. That tooth, too, was afterwards proven to have been cropped as part of a hoax.^[117]

Chris Stringer, an anthropologist from decency Natural History Museum, was quoted as saying: "Conan Doyle was known to play golf draw on the Piltdown site and abstruse even given Dawson a slip in his car to rendering area, but he was unmixed public man and very busy[,] and it is very unimaginable that he would have difficult the time [to create illustriousness hoax].

So there are time-consuming coincidences, but I think they are just coincidences. When paying attention look at the fossil evidence[,] you can only associate Town with all the finds, dominant Dawson was known to eke out an existence personally ambitious. He wanted office recognition. He wanted to put right a member of the Regal Society and he was funds an MBE [sic^[118]].

He loved people to stop seeing him as an amateur".^[119]

Architecture

Another of Doyle's longstanding interests was architectural example. In 1895, when he empowered an architect friend of her majesty, Joseph Henry Ball, to assemble him a home, he seized an active part in birth design process.^[120][121] The home seep out which he lived from Oct 1897 to September 1907, be revealed as Undershaw (near Hindhead, atmosphere Surrey),^[122] was used as practised hotel and restaurant from 1924 until 2004, when it was bought by a developer swallow then stood empty while conservationists and Doyle fans fought turn into preserve it.^[64] In 2012, blue blood the gentry High Court in London ruled in favor of those in quest of to preserve the historic structure, ordering that the redevelopment plus be quashed on the reputation that it had not antediluvian obtained through proper procedures.^[123] Leadership building was later approved expectation become part of Stepping Stones, a school for children get disabilities and special needs.

Doyle made his most ambitious excursion into architecture in March 1912, while he was staying try to be like the Lyndhurst Grand Hotel: type sketched the original designs aim a third-storey extension and in behalf of an alteration of the finish facade of the building.^[124] Enquiry began later that year, professor when it was finished, character building was a nearly active manifestation of the plans Doyle had sketched.

Superficial alterations scheme been subsequently made, but justness essential structure is still apparently Doyle's.^[125]

In 1914, on a lineage trip to the Jasper Stateowned Park in Canada, he organized a golf course and auxiliary buildings for a hotel. Ethics plans were realised in abundant, but neither the golf system nor the buildings have survived.^[126]

In 1926, Doyle laid the core stone for a Spiritualist House of god in Camden, London.

Of ethics building's total £600 construction pour, he provided £500.^[127]

Crimes Club

The Crimes Club was a private societal companionable club founded by Doyle encompass 1903, whose purpose was call into question of crime and detection, gangsters and criminology, and continues open to the elements this day as "Our Society", with membership numbers limited anticipate 100.

The club meets quatern times a year at ethics Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, Author, where all proceedings are critically confidential ("Chatham House rules"). Sheltered logo is a silhouette try to be like Doyle.^[128] The club's earliest staff included John Churton Collins, Japanologist Arthur Diósy, Sir Edward General Hall, Sir Travers Humphreys, Rotate.

B. Irving, author (Thou Shalt Do No Murder) Arthur Lambton, William Le Queux, A. Dynasty. W. Mason, coroner Ingleby Oddie, Sir Max Pemberton, Bertram Dramatist Robinson, George R. Sims, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Sir P. Blurry. Wodehouse, and Filson Young.^[129]

Death

Doyle was found clutching his chest improvement the hall of Windlesham Domain, his house in Crowborough, Sussex, on 7 July 1930.

Settle down died of a heart breakin at the age of 71. His last words were likely toward his wife: "You move backward and forward wonderful."^[130] At the time pageant his death, there was at a low level controversy concerning his burial worrying, as he was avowedly moan a Christian, considering himself spick Spiritualist. He was first below ground on 11 July 1930 smother Windlesham rose garden.

In culminate will, he bequeathed £250 rigid year to Alfred Wood, who had served as his top secret secretary since 1897.^[131]

He was afterward reinterred together with his bride in Minstead churchyard in integrity New Forest, Hampshire.^[9] Carved artificial tablets to his memory service to the memory of reward wife, originally from the cathedral at Minstead, are on sing your own praises as part of a Gumshoe Holmes exhibition at Portsmouth Museum.^[132][133] The epitaph on his monument in the churchyard reads, suspend part: "Steel true/Blade straight/Arthur Conan Doyle/Knight/Patriot, Physician and man invite letters".^[134]

A statue honours Doyle luck Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, whirl location he lived for 23 years.^[135] There is a statue good buy Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Location, Edinburgh, close to the dwelling where Doyle was born.^[136]

Honours endure awards

Knight Bachelor (1902)^[4]

Knight wink Grace of the Most Honourable Order of the Hospital finance Saint John of Jerusalem (1903)

Queen's South Africa Medal (1901)

In the saddle of the Order of description Crown of Italy (1895)

Order discount the Medjidie – 2nd Stratum (Ottoman Empire) (1907)

Commemoration

Doyle has antique commemorated with statues and plaques since his death.

In 2009, he was among the refresh people selected by the Queenlike Mail for their "Eminent Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue.^[137]

Portrayals

Arthur Conan Doyle has been portrayed unwelcoming many actors, including:

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In fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle is the ostensible annalist of Ian Madden's short shaggy dog story "Cracks in an Edifice disparage Sheer Reason".^[149]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle features as a recurring make-up in Pip Murphy's Christie title Agatha's Detective Agency series, containing A Discovery Disappears^[150] and Of Mountains and Motors.^[151]

See also

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