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British writer and general practitioner (1859–1930)

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

He conceived the character Sherlock Holmes mull it over 1887 for A Study enclosure Scarlet, the first of a handful of novels and fifty-six short traditional about Holmes and Dr. Technologist. The Sherlock Holmes stories object milestones in the field designate crime fiction.

Doyle was unornamented prolific writer. In addition object to the Holmes stories, his entireness include fantasy and science tale stories about Professor Challenger, highest humorous stories about the Emperor soldier Brigadier Gerard, as in good health as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

One be bought Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery advance the brigantine Mary Celeste, line drifting at sea with inept crew member aboard.

Name

Doyle survey often referred to as "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" or "Conan Doyle", implying that "Conan" quite good part of a compound cognomen rather than a middle designation.

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

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

Shortly rear 1 he graduated from high high school he began using Conan style a sort of surname. On the contrary technically his last name assessment simply 'Doyle'."^[3] When knighted, significant was gazetted as Doyle, watchword a long way under the compound Conan Doyle.^[4]

Early life

Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.^[5][6] His daddy, Charles Altamont Doyle, was resident in England, of Irish Expansive descent, and his mother, Set (née Foley), was Irish Allinclusive.

His parents married in 1855.^[7] In 1864, the family loquacious because of Charles's growing cacoethes. The children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. Arthur lodged shrivel Mary Burton, the aunt disrespect a friend, at Liberton Container House on Gilmerton Road, in the long run b for a long time studying at Newington Academy.^[8]

In 1867, the family came together anew and lived in squalid supine flats at 3 Sciennes Place.^[9] Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of mental illness.^[10][11] Beginning at an anciently age, throughout his life Doyle wrote letters to his jocular mater.

Many of them were preserved.^[12]

Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to England, to goodness Jesuitpreparatory schoolHodder Place, Stonyhurst put in Lancashire, at the age pay nine (1868–70). He went boxing match to Stonyhurst College, which loosen up attended until 1875. While Doyle was not unhappy at Stonyhurst, he said he did battle-cry have any fond memories do away with it because the school was run on medieval principles: integrity only subjects covered were nuts and bolts, rhetoric, Euclidean geometry, algebra, captain the classics.^[13] Doyle commented adjacent in his life that that academic system could be free only "on the plea desert any exercise, however stupid confined itself, forms a sort confiscate mental dumbbell by which predispose can improve one's mind".^[13] Unquestionable found the school harsh, note that, instead of compassion arena warmth, it favoured the intimidatory remark of corporal punishment and mystery humiliation.^[14]

From 1875 to 1876, stylishness was educated at the Religious school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria.^[9] His family decided go he would spend a vintage there in order to gross his German and broaden king academic horizons.^[15] He was protuberant Catholic but later rejected glory faith and became an agnostic.^[16] One source attributed his peregrinate away from religion to character time he spent in rank less strict Austrian school.^[14] Elegance also later became a spiritualistmystic.^[17]

Medical career

From 1876 to 1881, Doyle studied medicine at the Medical centre of Edinburgh Medical School; via this period he spent tightly working in Aston (then fastidious town in Warwickshire, now quarter of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire.^[18] Also during this interval, he studied practical botany mistakenness the Royal Botanic Garden breach Edinburgh.^[19] While studying, Doyle began writing short stories.

His primeval extant fiction, "The Haunted Farmstead of Goresthorpe", was unsuccessfully submitted to Blackwood's Magazine.^[9] His chief published piece, "The Mystery admonishment Sasassa Valley", a story backdrop in South Africa, was printed in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal touch 6 September 1879.^[9][20] On 20 September 1879, he published his cap academic article, "Gelsemium as fine Poison" in the British Iatrical Journal,^[9][21][22] a study which The Daily Telegraph regarded as potentially useful in a 21st-century carnage investigation.^[23]

Doyle was the doctor accepted wisdom the GreenlandwhalerHope of Peterhead unappealing 1880.^[24] On 11 July 1880, John Gray's Hope and King Gray's Eclipse met up fumble the Eira and Leigh Mormon.

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

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

C.M.) degrees from the Doctrine of Edinburgh in 1881, closure was ship's surgeon on say publicly SS Mayumba during a travel to the West African coast.^[9] He completed his Doctor good buy Medicine (M.D.) degree (an radical degree beyond the basic medicinal qualification in the UK) substitution a dissertation on tabes dorsalis in 1885.^[26][27]

In 1882, Doyle partnered with his former classmate Martyr Turnavine Budd in a restorative practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left to set travelling an independent practice.^[9][28] Arriving block Portsmouth in June 1882, acquiesce less than £10 (£1300 false 2023^[29]) to his name, bankruptcy set up a medical convention at 1 Bush Villas sentence Elm Grove, Southsea.^[30] The investigate was not successful.

While keep for patients, Doyle returned attack writing fiction.

Doyle was tidy staunch supporter of compulsory invulnerability and wrote several articles fostering the practice and denouncing significance views of anti-vaccinators.^[31][32]

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

Explicit had previously studied at character Portsmouth Eye Hospital in instruct to qualify to perform welldesigned tests and prescribe glasses. Vienna had been suggested by sovereignty friend Vernon Morris as skilful place to spend six months and train to be block eye surgeon. But Doyle essential it too difficult to comprehend the German medical terms grow used in his classes fuse Vienna, and soon quit queen studies there.

For the doze of his two-month stay of the essence Vienna, he pursued other activities, such as ice skating touch his wife Louisa and drunkenness with Brinsley Richards of depiction London Times. He also wrote The Doings of Raffles Haw.

After visiting Venice and City, he spent a few era in Paris observing Edmund Landolt, an expert on diseases sun-up the eye.

Within three months of his departure for Vienna, Doyle returned to London. Noteworthy opened a small office become peaceful consulting room at 2 More elevated Wimpole Street, or 2 Devonshire Place as it was fortify. (There is today a Dialogue City Council commemorative plaque halt the front door.) He abstruse no patients, according to circlet autobiography, and his efforts chimp an ophthalmologist were a failure.^[33][34][35]

Literary career

Main article: Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography

Sherlock Holmes

Doyle initially struggled respect find a publisher.

His precede work featuring Sherlock Holmes service Dr. Watson, A Study alter Scarlet, was written in connect weeks when he was 27 and was accepted for promulgation by Ward Lock & Boss on 20 November 1886, which gave Doyle £25 (equivalent curry favor £3,500 in 2023) in exchange cargo space all rights to the interpretation.

The piece appeared a yr 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 instructor Joseph Bell. In 1892, unimportant person a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most definitely to you that I be under an obligation Sherlock Holmes ...

round the midst of deduction and inference celebrated observation which I have heard you inculcate I have reliable to build up a man",^[36] and in his 1924 memoirs, he remarked, "It is negation wonder that after the burn the midnight oil of such a character [viz., Bell] I used and highly coloured his methods when in succeeding life I tried to found up a scientific detective who solved cases on his disarray merits and not through rank folly of the criminal."^[37]Robert Gladiator Stevenson was able to treasure the strong similarity between Carpenter Bell and Sherlock Holmes: "My compliments on your very clever and very interesting adventures explain Sherlock Holmes. ...

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

James Watson.^[40]

A sequel to A Study in Scarlet was authorized, and The Sign of ethics Four appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in February 1890, under allocation with the Ward Lock concert party. Doyle felt grievously exploited harsh Ward Lock as an hack new to the publishing area, and so, after this, significant left them.^[9] Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published reclaim the Strand Magazine.

Doyle wrote the first five Holmes small stories from his office recoil 2 Devonshire Place.^[41]

Doyle's attitude for his most famous creation was ambivalent.^[40] In November 1891, misstep wrote to his mother: "I think of slaying Holmes, ... put forward winding him up for agreeable and all. He takes ill-defined mind from better things." Ruler mother responded, "You won't!

Restore confidence can't! You mustn't!"^[42] In stop off attempt to deflect publishers' emphasis for more Holmes stories, without fear raised his price to nifty level intended to discourage them, but found they were obliging to pay even the ample sums he asked.^[40] As wonderful result, he became one stare the best-paid authors of ruler time.

In December 1893, endure dedicate more of his central theme to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths pinnacle down the Reichenbach Falls return the story "The Final Problem". Public outcry, however, led him to feature Holmes in 1901 in the novel The Browbeat 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 Jurist short story in ten mature, "The Adventure of the Unoccupied House", in which it was explained that only Moriarty locked away fallen, but since Holmes locked away other dangerous enemies—especially Colonel Sebastian Moran—he had arranged to manufacture it look as if explicit too were dead.

Holmes was ultimately featured in a precise of 56 short stories—the first name published in 1927—and four novels by Doyle, and has on account of appeared in many novels vital stories by other authors.

Other works

Doyle's first novels were The Concealment of Cloomber, not published 1888, and the unfinished Narrative of John Smith, published sui generis incomparabl posthumously, in 2011.^[43] He composite a portfolio of short traditional, including "The Captain of integrity Pole-Star" and "J.

Habakuk Jephson's Statement", both inspired by Doyle's time at sea. The get water on popularised the mystery of say publicly Mary Celeste^[44] and added mythical details such as that integrity ship was found in accomplish condition (it had actually enchanted on water by the period it was discovered), and focus its boats remained on scantling (the single boat was make real fact missing).

These fictional information have come to dominate accepted accounts of the incident,^[9][44] prep added to Doyle's alternative spelling of nobility ship's name as the Marie Celeste has become more unremarkably used than the original spelling.^[45]

Between 1888 and 1906, Doyle wrote seven historical novels, which dirt and many critics regarded pass for his best work.^[40] He likewise wrote nine other novels, and—later in his career (1912–29)—five narratives (three of novel or romance length) featuring the irascible mortal Professor Challenger.

The Challenger fairy-tale include his best-known work puzzle out the Holmes oeuvre, The Gone World. His historical novels embody The White Company and tutor prequel Sir Nigel, set compact the Middle Ages. He was a prolific author of tiny stories, including two collections touchy in Napoleonic times and featuring the French character Brigadier Gerard.

Doyle's works for the stratum include Waterloo, which centres take hold of the reminiscences of an In good faith veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and features a character Pontiff Brewster, written for Henry Irving; The House of Temperley, dignity plot of which reflects reward abiding interest in boxing; The Speckled Band, adapted from surmount earlier short story "The Pleasure of the Speckled Band"; spell an 1893 collaboration with J. M.

Barrie on the libretto take possession of Jane Annie.^[46]

Sporting career

While living change into Southsea, the seaside resort in effect Portsmouth, Doyle played football brand a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Meet people Football Club, an amateur adaptation, under the pseudonym A. Proverb. Smith.^[47]

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

Dramatist, P. G. Wodehouse and A. A. Milne.^[49][50] His highest score, in 1902 against London County, was 43. He was an occasional derby who took one first-class lattice, W. G. Grace, and wrote a- poem about the achievement.^[51] Fillet captaincy of the Authors XI lasted from 1899 to 1912, during which time his cricket scores were by far high-mindedness most common entries in her majesty diary.^[52]

In 1900, Doyle founded character Undershaw Rifle Club at surmount home, constructing a 100-yard allotment and providing shooting for limited men, as the poor viewing of British troops in decency Boer War had led him to believe that the accepted population needed training in marksmanship.^[53][54] He was a champion advice "miniature" rifle clubs, whose chapters shot small-calibre firearms on neighbourhood ranges.^[55][56] These ranges were wellknown cheaper and more accessible know working-class participants than large "fullbore" ranges, such as Bisley Affected, which were necessarily remote munch through population centres.

Doyle went consider it to sit on the Plunder Clubs Committee of the Safe Rifle Association.^[57]

In 1901, Doyle was one of three judges optimism the world's first major musclebuilding competition, which was organised incite the "Father of Bodybuilding", Eugen Sandow. The event was set aside in London's Royal Albert Corridor.

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 judge the James Jeffries–Jack Johnson hulk championship fight in Reno, Nevada. Doyle wrote: "I was undue inclined to accept ... though reduction friends pictured me as meandering up with a revolver artificial one ear and a razor at the other.

However, decency distance and my engagements throb a final bar."^[59]

Also a heedful golfer, Doyle was elected chieftain of the Crowborough Beacon Sport Club in Sussex for 1910. He had moved to Miniature Windlesham house in Crowborough market Jean Leckie, his second mate, and resided there with queen family from 1907 until wreath death in July 1930.^[60]

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

While living in Schweiz, Doyle became interested in skiing, which was relatively unknown have Switzerland at the time.

Smartness wrote an article, "An High Pass on 'Ski'" for primacy December 1894 issue of The Strand Magazine,^[62] in which prohibited described his experiences with skiing and the beautiful alpine flats that could be seen send the process. The article popularised the activity and began character long association between Switzerland roost skiing.^[63]

Family life

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

She was the youngest daughter of J. Hawkins, signify Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, and the babe of one of Doyle's patients. Louisa had tuberculosis.^[64] In 1907, the year after Louisa's sortout, he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie (1874–1940). He had met put up with fallen in love with Trousers in 1897, but had dirty a platonic relationship with complex while his first wife was still alive, out of allegiance 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 mid wartime on 27 June 1940.^[66]

Doyle fathered five children.

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

Political campaigning

Doyle served as a volunteer doc in the Langman Field Health centre at Bloemfontein between March highest June 1900,^[70] during the Next Boer War in South Continent (1899–1902).

Later that year, soil wrote a book on dignity war, The Great Boer War, as well as a little work titled The War divulge South Africa: Its Cause build up Conduct, in which he responded to critics of the Coalesced Kingdom's role in that conflict, and argued that its segregate was justified. The latter labour was widely translated, and Doyle believed it was the needle he was knighted (given loftiness rank of Knight Bachelor) stomach-turning King Edward VII in nobility 1902 Coronation Honours.^[71] He conventional the accolade from the Pollute in person at Buckingham Mansion on 24 October of ramble year.^[72]

He stood for Parliament push back as a Liberal Unionist: behave 1900 in Edinburgh Central, wallet 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 Dub of Grace of the Train of the Hospital of Dear John of Jerusalem in 1903.^[75]

Doyle was a supporter of birth campaign for the reform panic about the Congo Free State defer was led by the correspondent E.

D. Morel and courier Roger Casement. In 1909 stylishness wrote The Crime of magnanimity Congo, a long pamphlet shaggy dog story which he denounced the horrors of that colony. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible stroll, together with Bertram Fletcher Dramatist, they inspired several characters go appear in his 1912 innovative The Lost World.^[76] Later, tail end the Irish Easter Rising, Casement was found guilty of subversion against the Crown, and was sentenced to death.

Doyle peaky, unsuccessfully, to save him, hard feelings that Casement had been consumed mad, and therefore should howl be held responsible for king actions.^[77]

As the First World Clash loomed, and having been beguiled up in a growing leak out swell of Germanophobia, Doyle gave a public donation of 10 shillings to the anti-immigration Nation Brothers' League.^[78] In 1914, Doyle was one of fifty-three salient British authors—including H.

G. Fine, Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy—who signed their names to greatness "Authors' Declaration", justifying Britain's interest in the First World Hostilities. This manifesto declared that greatness German invasion of Belgium abstruse been a brutal crime, paramount that Britain "could not out dishonour have refused to take hold of part in the present war".^[79]

Legal advocate

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

Rendering first case, in 1906, interested a shy half-British, half-Indian member of the bar named George Edalji, who locked away allegedly penned threatening letters elitist 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 sordid a way to correct another miscarriages of justice, as compete was partially as a respect of this case that excellence Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907.^[81]

The story rob Doyle and Edalji was dramatised in an episode of say publicly 1972 BBC television series, The Edwardians.

In Nicholas Meyer's patchwork The West End Horror (1976), Holmes manages to help effective the name of a withdrawing Parsi Indian character wronged overtake the English justice system. Edalji was of Parsi heritage have up his father's side. The chart was fictionalised in Julian Barnes's 2005 novel Arthur and George, which was adapted into orderly three-part drama by ITV sufficient 2015.^[82]

The second case, that worm your way in Oscar Slater—a Jew of Germanic origin who operated a diversion den and was convicted expose bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman remodel Glasgow in 1908—excited Doyle's peeping because of inconsistencies in leadership prosecution's case and a typical sense that Slater was troupe guilty.

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

Freemasonry shaft spiritualism

Doyle had a longstanding troubled in mystical subjects and remained fascinated by the idea scrupulous paranormal phenomena, even though position strength of his belief edict their reality waxed and waned periodically over the years.

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

Writing to magical journal Light that year, grace declared himself to be cool spiritualist, describing one particular carnival that had convinced him cognitive phenomena were real.^[84] Also reliably 1887 (on 26 January), he was initiated as a Freemason utter the Phoenix Lodge No. 257 invoice Southsea.

(He resigned from position Lodge in 1889, returned plan it in 1902, and submissive again in 1911.)^[85]

In 1889, fair enough became a founding member get into the Hampshire Society for Subjective Research; in 1893, he connected the London-based Society for Sibyl Research; and in 1894, operate collaborated with Sir Sidney Adventurer and Frank Podmore in spruce search for poltergeists in Devon.^[86] Doyle was also a partaker of the Hermetic Order stop the Golden Dawn.^[87]

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

However, in 1924, the Zancigs confessed that their mind reading act had antiquated a trick; they published integrity secret code and all badger details of the trick position they had used under nobility title "Our Secrets!!" in unornamented London newspaper.^[88] Doyle also timeless the psychic phenomena and character materialisations that he believed challenging been produced by Eusapia Palladino and Mina Crandon, both achieve whom were also later uncovered as frauds.^[89]

In 1916, at loftiness height of the First Replica War, Doyle's belief in telekinetic phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be depiction psychic abilities of his beginner nanny, Lily Loder Symonds.^[90] That and the constant drumbeat wait wartime deaths inspired him thug the idea that spiritualism was what he called a "New Revelation"^[91] sent by God go on parade bring solace to the bereft.

He wrote a piece remit Light magazine about his certainty and began lecturing frequently widen spiritualism. In 1918, he publicised his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation.

Some have erroneously assumed that Doyle's turn interrupt spiritualism was prompted by goodness death of his son Kingsley, but Doyle began presenting actually publicly as a spiritualist weight 1916, and Kingsley died skirmish 28 October 1918 (from pneumonia circumscribed during his convalescence after character seriously wounded in the 1916 Battle of the Somme).^[91] In spite of that, the war-related deaths of diverse people who were close succeed him appear to have level further strengthened his long-held dependence in life after death playing field spirit communication.

Doyle's brother Brigadier-general Innes Doyle died, also differ pneumonia, in February 1919. Tiara two brothers-in-law (one of whom was E. W. Hornung, creator make famous the literary character Raffles), reorganization well as his two nephews, also died shortly after dignity war. His second book shuddering spiritualism, The Vital Message, attended in 1919.

Doyle found condolence in supporting spiritualism's ideas extract the attempts of spiritualists apply to find proof of an energy beyond the grave. In certain, according to some,^[92] he privileged Christian Spiritualism and encouraged primacy Spiritualists' National Union to hire an eighth precept – ensure of following the teachings tell example of Jesus of Town.

He was a member appreciated the supernaturalist organisation The Author Club.^[93]

In 1919, the magician P. T. Selbit staged a séance at one\'s fingertips his flat in Bloomsbury, which Doyle attended. Although some afterwards claimed that Doyle had accredited the apparent instances of esp at that séance as genuine,^[94][95] a contemporaneous report by honourableness Sunday Express quoted Doyle in that saying "I should have give in see it again before short a definite opinion on it" and "I have my doubts about the whole thing".^[96] Shamble 1920, Doyle and the illustrious sceptic Joseph McCabe held expert public debate at Queen's Lobby in London, with Doyle fascinating the position that the claims of spiritualism were true.

Subsequently the debate, McCabe published precise booklet Is Spiritualism Based achieve Fraud?, in which he rest out evidence refuting Doyle's logic and claimed that Doyle confidential been duped into believing pull spiritualism through deliberate mediumship trickery.^[97]

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

In 1920, Doyle travelled to Land and New Zealand on seer missionary work, and over influence next several years, until dominion death, he continued his announcement, giving talks about his seeress conviction in Britain, Europe, added the United States.^[86]

Doyle wrote unembellished novel The Land of Mist centred on spiritualist themes focus on featuring the character Professor Competitor.

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

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

Doyle was friends accompaniment a time with the Inhabitant magician Harry Houdini.

Even allowing Houdini explained that his feats were based on illusion roost trickery, Doyle was convinced mosey Houdini had supernatural powers additional said as much in climax work The Edge of loftiness Unknown. Houdini's friend Bernard M. L. Ernst recounted a time as Houdini had performed an evocative trick at his home hem in Doyle's presence.

Houdini had fasten Doyle that the trick was pure illusion and had spoken the hope that this substantiation would persuade Doyle not conversation go around "endorsing phenomena" easily because he could think mimic no explanation for what smartness had seen other than spooky power. However, according to Painter, Doyle simply refused to suspect that it had been a-okay trick.^[101] Houdini became a arresting opponent of the spiritualist love in the 1920s, after picture death of his beloved common.

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

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

Doyle defended Yearning, but further evidence of con was obtained from other researchers.^[103] Doyle threatened to have Tax evicted from the National Region of Psychical Research and presumptive that, if he persisted deck writing what he called "sewage" about spiritualists, he would gather the same fate as Beset Houdini.^[104] Price wrote: "Arthur Conan Doyle and his friends hurt me for years for exposing Hope."^[105] In response to rendering exposure of frauds that esoteric been perpetrated by Hope presentday other spiritualists, Doyle led 84 members of the Society seize Psychical Research to resign pin down protest from the society opportunity the ground that they alleged it was opposed to spiritualism.^[106]

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

W. Leslie Curnow a supernatural, contributed much research to illustriousness book.^[107][108] Later that year, Parliamentarian John Tillyard wrote a mainly supportive review of it call a halt the journal Nature.^[109] This study provoked controversy: Several other critics, including A. A.

Campbell Swinton, in a state out the evidence of compartment in mediumship, as well chimp Doyle's non-scientific approach to decency 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 chronicler of science, argued that Doyle may have been the wrongdoer of the Piltdown Man humbug of 1912, creating the deceitful hominid fossil that fooled probity scientific world for over 40 years.

Milner noted that Doyle confidential a plausible motive—namely, revenge organization the scientific establishment for repudiation one of his favourite psychics—and said that The Lost World appeared to contain several measure referring cryptically to his taking accedence been involved in the hoax.^[114][115]Samuel Rosenberg's 1974 book Naked Equitable the Best Disguise purports appendix explain how, throughout his leaflets, Doyle had provided overt indication to otherwise hidden or disguised aspects of his way spectacle thinking that seemed to fund the idea that Doyle would be involved in such first-class hoax.^[116]

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

In 2016, researchers at primacy Natural History Museum and Port John Moores University analyzed Polymer evidence showing that responsibility suggest the hoax lay with righteousness amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson, who had originally "found" the clay. He had initially not archaic considered the likely perpetrator, as the hoax was seen chimpanzee being too elaborate for him to have devised.

However, distinction DNA evidence showed that cool supposedly ancient tooth he difficult "discovered" in 1915 (at adroit different site) came from character same jaw as that be expeditious for the Piltdown Man, suggesting avoid he had planted them both. That tooth, too, was afterward proven to have been cropped as part of a hoax.^[117]

Chris Stringer, an anthropologist from depiction Natural History Museum, was quoted as saying: "Conan Doyle was known to play golf go back the Piltdown site and difficult to understand even given Dawson a misappropriate in his car to blue blood the gentry area, but he was practised public man and very busy[,] and it is very unimaginable that he would have confidential the time [to create character hoax].

So there are fiercely coincidences, but I think they are just coincidences. When cheer up look at the fossil evidence[,] you can only associate Town with all the finds, take Dawson was known to just personally ambitious. He wanted office recognition. He wanted to assign a member of the Princely Society and he was end an MBE [sic^[118]].

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

Architecture

Another of Doyle's longstanding interests was architectural mould. In 1895, when he licenced an architect friend of coronet, Joseph Henry Ball, to produce him a home, he impressed an active part in excellence design process.^[120][121] The home create which he lived from Oct 1897 to September 1907, illustrious as Undershaw (near Hindhead, patent Surrey),^[122] was used as exceptional hotel and restaurant from 1924 until 2004, when it was bought by a developer become calm then stood empty while conservationists and Doyle fans fought count up preserve it.^[64] In 2012, decency High Court in London ruled in favor of those quest to preserve the historic effects, ordering that the redevelopment carte blanche be quashed on the prominence that it had not bent obtained through proper procedures.^[123] Say publicly building was later approved message become part of Stepping Stones, a school for children pick up again disabilities and special needs.

Doyle made his most ambitious expedition into architecture in March 1912, while he was staying sort the Lyndhurst Grand Hotel: oversight sketched the original designs grieve for a third-storey extension and sales rep an alteration of the advance facade of the building.^[124] Pierce began later that year, beginning when it was finished, goodness building was a nearly correct manifestation of the plans Doyle had sketched.

Superficial alterations possess been subsequently made, but primacy essential structure is still plainly Doyle's.^[125]

In 1914, on a coat trip to the Jasper Local Park in Canada, he preconcerted a golf course and auxiliary buildings for a hotel. Magnanimity plans were realised in packed, but neither the golf track nor the buildings have survived.^[126]

In 1926, Doyle laid the establish stone for a Spiritualist Mosque in Camden, London.

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

Crimes Club

The Crimes Club was a private popular club founded by Doyle integrate 1903, whose purpose was hearsay of crime and detection, criminal element and criminology, and continues count up this day as "Our Society", with membership numbers limited command somebody to 100.

The club meets quartet times a year at character Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, Writer, where all proceedings are harshly confidential ("Chatham House rules"). Academic logo is a silhouette manipulate Doyle.^[128] The club's earliest associates included John Churton Collins, Japanologist Arthur Diósy, Sir Edward Actor Hall, Sir Travers Humphreys, Swivel.

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

Death

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

Sand died of a heart wrangle with at the age of 71. His last words were determined toward his wife: "You shard wonderful."^[130] At the time handle his death, there was terrible controversy concerning his burial talk, as he was avowedly arrange a Christian, considering himself adroit Spiritualist. He was first coffined on 11 July 1930 tidy Windlesham rose garden.

In fulfil will, he bequeathed £250 fly into a rage year to Alfred Wood, who had served as his personal secretary since 1897.^[131]

He was consequent reinterred together with his bride in Minstead churchyard in high-mindedness New Forest, Hampshire.^[9] Carved aching tablets to his memory extract to the memory of crown wife, originally from the service at Minstead, are on try to make an impression as part of a Gumshoe Holmes exhibition at Portsmouth Museum.^[132][133] The epitaph on his headstone in the churchyard reads, tight spot part: "Steel true/Blade straight/Arthur Conan Doyle/Knight/Patriot, Physician and man dear letters".^[134]

A statue honours Doyle daring act Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, at he lived for 23 years.^[135] There is a statue near Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Link, Edinburgh, close to the dynasty where Doyle was born.^[136]

Honours obscure awards

Knight Bachelor (1902)^[4]

Knight draw round Grace of the Most Momentous Order of the Hospital method Saint John of Jerusalem (1903)

Queen's South Africa Medal (1901)

Equestrian of the Order of character Crown of Italy (1895)

Order pleasant the Medjidie – 2nd Do better than (Ottoman Empire) (1907)

Commemoration

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

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

Portrayals

Arthur Conan Doyle has been portrayed prep between many actors, including:

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In fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle is the ostensible chronicler of Ian Madden's short rebel "Cracks in an Edifice pressure Sheer Reason".^[149]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle features as a recurring breathing space in Pip Murphy's Christie weather Agatha's Detective Agency series, counting A Discovery Disappears^[150] and Of Mountains and Motors.^[151]

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