Saturday 17 March 2012

The Author of The Boscombe Valley Mystery (TBVM)

Sir Author Conan Doyle
22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930

In 1885 Conan Doyle married
Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as 'Touie',
the sister of one of his patient.

The next year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie,
whom he had first met and
fallen in love with in 1897.

Conan Doyle fathered five children.

He had two with Louisa:-
Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976),
Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley
(15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918).

He also had three with Jean Elizabeth Leckie:-
Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955) second husband of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani
Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910 – 3 June 1970)
and
Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997).

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