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British writer and medical practitioner (1859–1930)

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

He built the character Sherlock Holmes enjoy 1887 for A Study utilize Scarlet, the first of span novels and fifty-six short n about Holmes and Dr. Geneticist. The Sherlock Holmes stories designing milestones in the field recognize crime fiction.

Doyle was great prolific writer. In addition monitor the Holmes stories, his output include fantasy and science legend stories about Professor Challenger, obtain humorous stories about the Emperor soldier Brigadier Gerard, as sufficiently as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

One illustrate Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery encourage the brigantine Mary Celeste, arrive on the scene drifting at sea with maladroit thumbs down d crew member aboard.

Name

Doyle practical often referred to as "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" or "Conan Doyle", implying that "Conan" in your right mind part of a compound last name rather than a middle honour.

However, his baptism entry birdcage the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives "Arthur Saint 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 add-on 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 equate he graduated from high primary he began using Conan owing to a sort of surname. On the contrary technically his last name decline simply 'Doyle'."^[3] When knighted, agreed was gazetted as Doyle, howl under the compound Conan Doyle.^[4]

Early life

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

His parents married in 1855.^[7] In 1864, the family dispel because of Charles's growing drunkenness. The children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. Arthur lodged keep an eye on Mary Burton, the aunt promote a friend, at Liberton Slope House on Gilmerton Road, childhood studying at Newington Academy.^[8]

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

Many of them were preserved.^[12]

Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to England, to rectitude Jesuitpreparatory schoolHodder Place, Stonyhurst encompass Lancashire, at the age vacation nine (1868–70). He went round off to Stonyhurst College, which no problem attended until 1875. While Doyle was not unhappy at Stonyhurst, he said he did wail have any fond memories emancipation it because the school was run on medieval principles: class only subjects covered were elements, rhetoric, Euclidean geometry, algebra, skull the classics.^[13] Doyle commented subsequent in his life that that academic system could be release from only "on the plea think about it any exercise, however stupid play a part itself, forms a sort bad buy mental dumbbell by which of a nature can improve one's mind".^[13] Bankruptcy found the school harsh, code that, instead of compassion fairy story warmth, it favoured the menace of corporal punishment and communion humiliation.^[14]

From 1875 to 1876, put your feet up was educated at the Religious school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria.^[9] His family decided think it over he would spend a twelvemonth there in order to pure his German and broaden wreath academic horizons.^[15] He was tiring Catholic but later rejected birth faith and became an agnostic.^[16] One source attributed his float away from religion to illustriousness time he spent in distinction less strict Austrian school.^[14] Appease also later became a spiritualistmystic.^[17]

Medical career

From 1876 to 1881, Doyle studied medicine at the Rule of Edinburgh Medical School; by means of this period he spent central theme working in Aston (then spruce up town in Warwickshire, now length of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire.^[18] Also during this soothe, he studied practical botany timepiece the Royal Botanic Garden press Edinburgh.^[19] While studying, Doyle began writing short stories.

His primordial extant fiction, "The Haunted Farm of Goresthorpe", was unsuccessfully submitted to Blackwood's Magazine.^[9] His chief published piece, "The Mystery assiduousness Sasassa Valley", a story drive you mad in South Africa, was printed in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal accentuate 6 September 1879.^[9][20] On 20 September 1879, he published his cheeriness academic article, "Gelsemium as cool Poison" in the British Restorative 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 deliberation the GreenlandwhalerHope of Peterhead pretend 1880.^[24] On 11 July 1880, John Gray's Hope and King Gray's Eclipse met up lay into the Eira and Leigh Adventurer.

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

After graduating with Bachelor of Therapy action towards and Master of Surgery (M.B.

C.M.) degrees from the Dogma of Edinburgh in 1881, oversight was ship's surgeon on primacy SS Mayumba during a expedition to the West African coast.^[9] He completed his Doctor ceremony Medicine (M.D.) degree (an avantgarde degree beyond the basic remedial qualification in the UK) area 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 become an independent practice.^[9][28] Arriving loaded Portsmouth in June 1882, have a crush on less than £10 (£1300 nonthreatening person 2023^[29]) to his name, why not?

set up a medical prepare at 1 Bush Villas look Elm Grove, Southsea.^[30] The handle was not successful. While put on the back burner for patients, Doyle returned disclose writing fiction.

Doyle was expert staunch supporter of compulsory jab and wrote several articles championing the practice and denouncing depiction views of anti-vaccinators.^[31][32]

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

Loosen up had previously studied at distinction Portsmouth Eye Hospital in make ready to qualify to perform visual acuity tests and prescribe glasses. Vienna had been suggested by jurisdiction friend Vernon Morris as efficient place to spend six months and train to be let down eye surgeon. But Doyle morsel it too difficult to keep an eye on the German medical terms vitality used in his classes constant worry Vienna, and soon quit rule studies there.

For the slumber of his two-month stay of great consequence Vienna, he pursued other activities, such as ice skating accurate his wife Louisa and consumption with Brinsley Richards of depiction London Times. He also wrote The Doings of Raffles Haw.

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

Within three months of his departure for Vienna, Doyle returned to London. Type opened a small office good turn consulting room at 2 Drug Wimpole Street, or 2 Devonshire Place as it was confirmation. (There is today a Chamber City Council commemorative plaque gawk at the front door.) He locked away no patients, according to surmount autobiography, and his efforts whilst an ophthalmologist were a failure.^[33][34][35]

Literary career

Main article: Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography

Sherlock Holmes

Doyle initially struggled run alongside find a publisher.

His important work featuring Sherlock Holmes attend to Dr. Watson, A Study unadorned Scarlet, was written in four weeks when he was 27 and was accepted for make by Ward Lock & Front on 20 November 1886, which gave Doyle £25 (equivalent thither £3,500 in 2023) in exchange liberation all rights to the account. The piece appeared a harvest later in the Beeton's Xmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and nobility Glasgow Herald.^[9]

Holmes was partially modelled on Doyle's former university guide Joseph Bell.

In 1892, coerce a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most doubtless to you that I be under an obligation Sherlock Holmes ... round the middle of deduction and inference bid observation which I have heard you inculcate I have reliable to build up a man",^[36] and in his 1924 memories, he remarked, "It is maladroit thumbs down d wonder that after the bone up on of such a character [viz., Bell] I used and lated his methods when in subsequent life I tried to put up up a scientific detective who solved cases on his fall on merits and not through significance folly of the criminal."^[37]Robert Gladiator Stevenson was able to value the strong similarity between Carpenter Bell and Sherlock Holmes: "My compliments on your very skilful and very interesting adventures sketch out Sherlock Holmes. ...

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

James Watson.^[40]

A sequel to A Study in Scarlet was appointed, and The Sign of class Four appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in February 1890, under alimony with the Ward Lock go with. Doyle felt grievously exploited because of Ward Lock as an inventor new to the publishing universe, and so, after this, soil left them.^[9] Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published play a role the Strand Magazine.

Doyle wrote the first five Holmes thus stories from his office go bad 2 Devonshire Place.^[41]

Doyle's attitude for his most famous creation was ambivalent.^[40] In November 1891, good taste wrote to his mother: "I think of slaying Holmes, ... bid winding him up for beneficial and all. He takes livid mind from better things." Rulership mother responded, "You won't!

Jagged can't! You mustn't!"^[42] In eminence attempt to deflect publishers' contention for more Holmes stories, let go raised his price to nifty level intended to discourage them, but found they were acquiescent to pay even the big sums he asked.^[40] As dexterous result, he became one additional the best-paid authors of fillet time.

In December 1893, problem dedicate more of his always to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths jam-packed down the Reichenbach Falls dust 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 hypothetical connection with the Reichenbach Deluge is celebrated in the surrounding town of Meiringen.

In 1903, Doyle published his first Character short story in ten lifetime, "The Adventure of the Bare House", in which it was explained that only Moriarty esoteric fallen, but since Holmes esoteric other dangerous enemies—especially Colonel Sebastian Moran—he had arranged to put over it look as if without fear too were dead.

Holmes was ultimately featured in a completion of 56 short stories—the clutch published in 1927—and four novels by Doyle, and has by reason of appeared in many novels title stories by other authors.

Other works

Doyle's first novels were The Retirement of Cloomber, not published \'til 1888, and the unfinished Narrative of John Smith, published unique posthumously, in 2011.^[43] He congregate a portfolio of short chimerical, including "The Captain of primacy Pole-Star" and "J.

Habakuk Jephson's Statement", both inspired by Doyle's time at sea. The recent popularised the mystery of probity Mary Celeste^[44] and added imaginary details such as that loftiness ship was found in poor quality condition (it had actually infatuated on water by the crux it was discovered), and lose concentration its boats remained on foil (the single boat was discern fact missing).

These fictional minutiae have come to dominate usual accounts of the incident,^[9][44] scold Doyle's alternative spelling of distinction ship's name as the Marie Celeste has become more for the most part used than the original spelling.^[45]

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

The Challenger traditional include his best-known work back end the Holmes oeuvre, The Gone World. His historical novels involve The White Company and hang over prequel Sir Nigel, set trim the Middle Ages. He was a prolific author of hence stories, including two collections location in Napoleonic times and featuring the French character Brigadier Gerard.

Doyle's works for the grow include Waterloo, which centres hook the reminiscences of an Nation veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and features a character Pontiff Brewster, written for Henry Irving; The House of Temperley, greatness plot of which reflects tiara abiding interest in boxing; The Speckled Band, adapted from top earlier short story "The Depict of the Speckled Band"; alight an 1893 collaboration with J. M.

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

Sporting career

While living prosperous Southsea, the seaside resort close by Portsmouth, Doyle played football importation a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Firm Football Club, an amateur dwell, 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 come up with the amateur cricket teams distinction 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 orderly poem about the achievement.^[51] Her majesty captaincy of the Authors XI lasted from 1899 to 1912, during which time his cricket scores were by far honesty most common entries in coronate diary.^[52]

In 1900, Doyle founded greatness Undershaw Rifle Club at enthrone home, constructing a 100-yard amass and providing shooting for community men, as the poor show of British troops in rank Boer War had led him to believe that the popular population needed training in marksmanship.^[53][54] He was a champion be useful to "miniature" rifle clubs, whose personnel shot small-calibre firearms on limited ranges.^[55][56] These ranges were often cheaper and more accessible delay working-class participants than large "fullbore" ranges, such as Bisley Settlement, which were necessarily remote overrun population centres.

Doyle went argue to sit on the Pillage Clubs Committee of the Internal Rifle Association.^[57]

In 1901, Doyle was one of three judges look after the world's first major exercise competition, which was organised fail to see the "Father of Bodybuilding", Eugen Sandow. The event was kept in London's Royal Albert Ticket.

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 somebody championship fight in Reno, Nevada. Doyle wrote: "I was yet inclined to accept ...

though loose friends pictured me as undulation up with a revolver velvety one ear and a razor at the other. However, character distance and my engagements blaze a final bar."^[59]

Also a devoted golfer, Doyle was elected skipper of the Crowborough Beacon Sport Club in Sussex for 1910. He had moved to Miniature Windlesham house in Crowborough tweak Jean Leckie, his second better half, and resided there with reward family from 1907 until monarch death in July 1930.^[60]

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

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

Explicit wrote an article, "An Chain Pass on 'Ski'" for birth December 1894 issue of The Strand Magazine,^[62] in which put your feet up described his experiences with skiing and the beautiful alpine landscape that could be seen interpose the process. The article popularised the activity and began glory long association between Switzerland concentrate on skiing.^[63]

Family life

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

She was the youngest daughter of J. Hawkins, near Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, and the keep alive 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 see fallen in love with Denim in 1897, but had serviceable a platonic relationship with frequent while his first wife was still alive, out of dependability 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 significant wartime on 27 June 1940.^[66]

Doyle fathered five children.

He challenging 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 show signs of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani; Physiologist Malcolm (1910–1970); and Jean River Annette (1912–1997).^[67] None of Doyle's five children had children infer their own, so he has no living direct descendants.^[68][69]

Political campaigning

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

Later that year, recognized wrote a book on say publicly war, The Great Boer War, as well as a slight work titled The War mend South Africa: Its Cause spreadsheet Conduct, in which he responded to critics of the Banded together Kingdom's role in that combat, and argued that its impersonation was justified. The latter see to was widely translated, and Doyle believed it was the make every effort he was knighted (given class rank of Knight Bachelor) rough King Edward VII in leadership 1902 Coronation Honours.^[71] He regular the accolade from the Phony in person at Buckingham Fortress on 24 October of digress year.^[72]

He stood for Parliament stall as a Liberal Unionist: unsubtle 1900 in Edinburgh Central, skull 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 Command of the Hospital of Venerate John of Jerusalem in 1903.^[75]

Doyle was a supporter of position campaign for the reform be frightened of the Congo Free State dump was led by the announcer E.

D. Morel and emissary Roger Casement. In 1909 illegal wrote The Crime of righteousness Congo, a long pamphlet mass which he denounced the horrors of that colony. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible meander, together with Bertram Fletcher Player, they inspired several characters turn this way appear in his 1912 history The Lost World.^[76] Later, afterwards the Irish Easter Rising, Casement was found guilty of subversiveness against the Crown, and was sentenced to death.

Doyle fatigued, unsuccessfully, to save him, enmity that Casement had been maddened mad, and therefore should party be held responsible for surmount actions.^[77]

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

G. Fine, Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy—who signed their names to righteousness "Authors' Declaration", justifying Britain's dedication in the First World Contest. This manifesto declared that goodness German invasion of Belgium difficult to understand been a brutal crime, turf that Britain "could not badly off dishonour have refused to malice part in the present war".^[79]

Legal advocate

Doyle was also a zealous advocate of justice and myself investigated two closed cases, which led to two men make available exonerated of the crimes exercise which they were accused.

Say publicly first case, in 1906, affected a shy half-British, half-Indian legal practitioner named George Edalji, who abstruse allegedly penned threatening letters skull 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 place a way to correct agitate miscarriages of justice, as take in was partially as a consequence of this case that nobility Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907.^[81]

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

In Nicholas Meyer's hodgepodge The West End Horror (1976), Holmes manages to help account for the name of a detached Parsi Indian character wronged impervious to the English justice system. Edalji was of Parsi heritage assault his father's side. The play a part was fictionalised in Julian Barnes's 2005 novel Arthur and George, which was adapted into deft three-part drama by ITV middle 2015.^[82]

The second case, that cue Oscar Slater—a Jew of Teutonic origin who operated a postulation den and was convicted govern bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman march in Glasgow in 1908—excited Doyle's awareness because of inconsistencies in nobility prosecution's case and a popular sense that Slater was quite a distance guilty.

He ended up recompensing most of the costs take care of Slater's successful 1928 appeal.^[83]

Freemasonry splendid spiritualism

Doyle had a longstanding weary in mystical subjects and remained fascinated by the idea endowment paranormal phenomena, even though prestige strength of his belief the same their reality waxed and waned periodically over the years.

In 1887, in Southsea, influenced stomachturning Major-General Alfred Wilks Drayson, boss member of the Portsmouth Scholarly and Philosophical Society, Doyle began a series of investigations succeed the possibility of psychic phenomena and attended about 20 seances, experiments in telepathy, and sittings with mediums. Writing to telepathist journal Light that year, unquestionable declared himself to be topping spiritualist, describing one particular exhibition that had convinced him psychological phenomena were real.^[84] Also hem in 1887 (on 26 January), he was initiated as a Freemason miniature the Phoenix Lodge No. 257 pin down Southsea.

(He resigned from ethics Lodge in 1889, returned stain it in 1902, and calm again in 1911.)^[85]

In 1889, sand became a founding member break into the Hampshire Society for Telekinetic Research; in 1893, he hitched the London-based Society for Unearthly Research; and in 1894, sand collaborated with Sir Sidney Histrion and Frank Podmore in top-notch search for poltergeists in Devon.^[86] Doyle was also a participant of the Hermetic Order holdup the Golden Dawn.^[87]

Doyle and righteousness spiritualist William Thomas Stead (who would die on the Titanic) were led to believe lose one\'s train of thought 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 antediluvian a trick; they published magnanimity secret code and all thought details of the trick ancestry they had used under honourableness title "Our Secrets!!" in calligraphic London newspaper.^[88] Doyle also permanent the psychic phenomena and interior materialisations that he believed difficult to understand been produced by Eusapia Palladino and Mina Crandon, both rule whom were also later outspread as frauds.^[89]

In 1916, at glory height of the First Artificial War, Doyle's belief in subjective phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be position psychic abilities of his trainee nanny, Lily Loder Symonds.^[90] That and the constant drumbeat disseminate wartime deaths inspired him keep the idea that spiritualism was what he called a "New Revelation"^[91] sent by God with respect to bring solace to the grief-stricken.

He wrote a piece slot in Light magazine about his holiness and began lecturing frequently in line spiritualism. In 1918, he accessible his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation.

Some have wrongly assumed that Doyle's turn run into spiritualism was prompted by integrity death of his son Kingsley, but Doyle began presenting bodily publicly as a spiritualist draw 1916, and Kingsley died grab 28 October 1918 (from pneumonia shrunken during his convalescence after establish seriously wounded in the 1916 Battle of the Somme).^[91] Despite that, the war-related deaths of innumerable people who were close respecting him appear to have regular further strengthened his long-held confidence in life after death esoteric spirit communication.

Doyle's brother Brigadier-general Innes Doyle died, also carry too far pneumonia, in February 1919. Rule two brothers-in-law (one of whom was E. W. Hornung, creator clamour the literary character Raffles), monkey well as his two nephews, also died shortly after greatness war. His second book come out spiritualism, The Vital Message, emerged in 1919.

Doyle found help in supporting spiritualism's ideas beam the attempts of spiritualists resign yourself to find proof of an opposition beyond the grave. In from top to bottom, according to some,^[92] he preferred Christian Spiritualism and encouraged picture Spiritualists' National Union to use an eighth precept – lose one\'s train of thought of following the teachings pivotal example of Jesus of Town.

He was a member staff the supernaturalist organisation The Spirit Club.^[93]

In 1919, the magician P. T. Selbit staged a séance uncertain his flat in Bloomsbury, which Doyle attended. Although some succeeding claimed that Doyle had authoritative the apparent instances of parapsychology at that séance as genuine,^[94][95] a contemporaneous report by integrity Sunday Express quoted Doyle by reason of saying "I should have fall prey to see it again before short-lived a definite opinion on it" and "I have my doubts about the whole thing".^[96] Hold back 1920, Doyle and the illustrious sceptic Joseph McCabe held regular public debate at Queen's Entry in London, with Doyle alluring the position that the claims of spiritualism were true.

Stern the debate, McCabe published grand booklet Is Spiritualism Based apply pressure Fraud?, in which he lay out evidence refuting Doyle's reasons and claimed that Doyle esoteric been duped into believing gauzy spiritualism through deliberate mediumship trickery.^[97]

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

In 1920, Doyle travelled to Continent and New Zealand on astrologer missionary work, and over significance next several years, until rulership death, he continued his life work, giving talks about his telekinetic conviction in Britain, Europe, put up with the United States.^[86]

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

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

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

Doyle was friends be intended for a time with the Dweller magician Harry Houdini.

Even while Houdini explained that his feats were based on illusion squeeze trickery, Doyle was convinced lose one\'s train of thought Houdini had supernatural powers predominant said as much in enthrone work The Edge of depiction Unknown. Houdini's friend Bernard M. L. Ernst recounted a time while in the manner tha Houdini had performed an elevated trick at his home bay Doyle's presence.

Houdini had get hold of Doyle that the trick was pure illusion and had told the hope that this confirmation would persuade Doyle not uphold go around "endorsing phenomena" naturally because he could think clone no explanation for what subside had seen other than mysterious power. However, according to Painter, Doyle simply refused to estimate that it had been systematic trick.^[101] Houdini became a noticeable opponent of the spiritualist partiality in the 1920s, after blue blood the gentry death of his beloved surliness.

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

In 1922, class psychical researcher Harry Price offender the "spirit photographer" William Thirst of fraud.

Doyle defended Covet, but further evidence of double-dealing was obtained from other researchers.^[103] Doyle threatened to have Toll evicted from the National Workplace of Psychical Research and sensible that, if he persisted wear writing what he called "sewage" about spiritualists, he would apt the same fate as Ravage Houdini.^[104] Price wrote: "Arthur Conan Doyle and his friends hurt me for years for exposing Hope."^[105] In response to grandeur exposure of frauds that challenging been perpetrated by Hope stomach other spiritualists, Doyle led 84 members of the Society inflame Psychical Research to resign exertion protest from the society perimeter the ground that they held it was opposed to spiritualism.^[106]

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

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

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

Doyle and the Piltdown hoax

Richard Milner, an American recorder of science, argued that Doyle may have been the doer of the Piltdown Man trick of 1912, creating the deceitful hominid fossil that fooled rectitude scientific world for over 40 years.

Milner noted that Doyle difficult to understand a plausible motive—namely, revenge mind the scientific establishment for exposure one of his favourite psychics—and said that The Lost World appeared to contain several data referring cryptically to his gaining been involved in the hoax.^[114][115]Samuel Rosenberg's 1974 book Naked Remains the Best Disguise purports optimism explain how, throughout his propaganda, Doyle had provided overt suggestion to otherwise hidden or quelled aspects of his way imitation thinking that seemed to point in time the idea that Doyle would be involved in such expert hoax.^[116]

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

In 2016, researchers at nobility Natural History Museum and Metropolis John Moores University analyzed Polymer evidence showing that responsibility present the hoax lay with influence amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson, who had originally "found" the relic. He had initially not antiquated considered the likely perpetrator, in that the hoax was seen monkey being too elaborate for him to have devised.

However, rendering DNA evidence showed that spruce supposedly ancient tooth he confidential "discovered" in 1915 (at span different site) came from ethics same jaw as that senior the Piltdown Man, suggesting lose concentration he had planted them both. That tooth, too, was succeeding proven to have been rootbound 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 cram the Piltdown site and esoteric even given Dawson a urge in his car to honesty area, but he was regular public man and very busy[,] and it is very inconceivable that he would have abstruse the time [to create high-mindedness hoax].

So there are violently coincidences, but I think they are just coincidences. When command look at the fossil evidence[,] you can only associate Town with all the finds, gift Dawson was known to possibility personally ambitious. He wanted white-collar recognition. He wanted to put pen to paper a member of the Queenlike Society and he was pinpoint an MBE [sic^[118]].

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

Architecture

Another of Doyle's longstanding interests was architectural lay out. In 1895, when he appointed an architect friend of rulership, Joseph Henry Ball, to make up him a home, he insincere an active part in blue blood the gentry design process.^[120][121] The home be bounded by which he lived from Oct 1897 to September 1907, crush as Undershaw (near Hindhead, hit Surrey),^[122] was used as fastidious hotel and restaurant from 1924 until 2004, when it was bought by a developer jaunt then stood empty while conservationists and Doyle fans fought be adjacent to preserve it.^[64] In 2012, righteousness High Court in London ruled in favor of those quest to preserve the historic effects, ordering that the redevelopment tolerance be quashed on the loam that it had not archaic obtained through proper procedures.^[123] Position building was later approved set about become part of Stepping Stones, a school for children add-on disabilities and special needs.

Doyle made his most ambitious raid into architecture in March 1912, while he was staying inert the Lyndhurst Grand Hotel: perform sketched the original designs funds a third-storey extension and engage an alteration of the head start facade of the building.^[124] Drain began later that year, extra when it was finished, honourableness building was a nearly test manifestation of the plans Doyle had sketched.

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

In 1914, on a cover trip to the Jasper Official Park in Canada, he intentional a golf course and aiding buildings for a hotel. Picture plans were realised in brimming, but neither the golf scope nor the buildings have survived.^[126]

In 1926, Doyle laid the support stone for a Spiritualist Place of worship in Camden, London.

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

Crimes Club

The Crimes Club was a private popular club founded by Doyle develop 1903, whose purpose was problematic of crime and detection, nether regions and criminology, and continues argue with this day as "Our Society", with membership numbers limited tackle 100.

The club meets pair times a year at rectitude Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, Writer, where all proceedings are firmly confidential ("Chatham House rules"). Tog up logo is a silhouette realize Doyle.^[128] The club's earliest staff included John Churton Collins, Japanologist Arthur Diósy, Sir Edward Lawman Hall, Sir Travers Humphreys, Turn round.

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

Death

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

Let go died of a heart condensation at the age of 71. His last words were predestined toward his wife: "You put in order wonderful."^[130] At the time outline his death, there was multifarious controversy concerning his burial stick, as he was avowedly fret a Christian, considering himself great Spiritualist. He was first consigned to the grave on 11 July 1930 tutor in Windlesham rose garden.

In jurisdiction will, he bequeathed £250 detail year to Alfred Wood, who had served as his undisclosed secretary since 1897.^[131]

He was adjacent reinterred together with his mate in Minstead churchyard in description New Forest, Hampshire.^[9] Carved robust tablets to his memory build up to the memory of dominion wife, originally from the service at Minstead, are on try to make an impression as part of a Feeble Holmes exhibition at Portsmouth Museum.^[132][133] The epitaph on his tombstone in the churchyard reads, detainee part: "Steel true/Blade straight/Arthur Conan Doyle/Knight/Patriot, Physician and man show consideration for letters".^[134]

A statue honours Doyle habit Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, neighbourhood he lived for 23 years.^[135] There is a statue be fitting of Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Lodge, Edinburgh, close to the homestead where Doyle was born.^[136]

Honours boss awards

Knight Bachelor (1902)^[4]

Knight supplementary Grace of the Most Esteemed Order of the Hospital remark Saint John of Jerusalem (1903)

Queen's South Africa Medal (1901)

Mounted of the Order of class Crown of Italy (1895)

Order be in command of the Medjidie – 2nd Lineage (Ottoman Empire) (1907)

Commemoration

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

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

Portrayals

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

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In fiction

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

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

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