Person    | Male  Born 22/5/1859  Died 7/7/1930

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Categories: Literature, Paranormal, Seriously Famous

Countries: Scotland

Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to cross an Alpine pass on skis.

Later an apostle of the paranormal and spiritualism (on our Kingston Spiritualist Church page we have a photo of him officiating at the opening). His belief in spiritualism predates the death of his son from influenza while convalescing from Somme war wounds. See Harry Houdini for the story of a séance they jointly attended.

Died England of a heart attack. We understand his surname was Doyle, not Conan Doyle, though that is often used to refer to him.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - SE25

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - W1

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The Langham Hotel

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Wine Office Court

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Kingston Spiritualist Church - Foundation Stone 4 - Conan Doyle

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Spiritualist Temple - Conan Doyle

Foundation stone laid by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, October 30th 1926

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