Person Open DS/UK/1822 Doyle; Sir; Arthur Conan (22 May 1859-7 July 1930); KStJ DL; British writer and physician Doyle Arthur Conan Sir 22 May 1859-7 July 1930 British writer and physician Male Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle Edinburgh, Scotland (born)

Crowborough, East Sussex, England (died)

British Writer White Son of Charles Altamont Doyle (English-born Irish Catholic descent) and Mary Foley (Irish Catholic) Heterosexual Activism and Views: Although his family were Catholic, he rejected the Catholic faith and became an agnostic and also later became a spiritualist mystic. Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects. Doyle came out as a Spiritualist to the public in 1916. He was a member of the renowned supernatural organisation The Ghost Club. Following the Boer War in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century and the condemnation from some quarters over the United Kingdom's role, Doyle wrote a short work titled The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, which argued that the UK's role in the Boer War was justified. Doyle had served as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein. Doyle believed that this publication was responsible for his being knighted as a Knight Bachelor by King Edward VII in 1902 and for his appointment as a Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey. He stood for Parliament twice as a Liberal Unionist—in 1900 in Edinburgh Central and in 1906 in the Hawick Burghs—but although he received a respectable vote, he was not elected. Doyle was a supporter of the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by the journalist E. D. Morel and diplomat Roger Casement. During 1909 he wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors of that colony. Doyle was a staunch supporter of compulsory vaccination and wrote several articles advocating for the practice and denouncing the views of anti-vaccinators. Memberships: He was initiated as a Freemason in 1887. He resigned from the Lodge in 1889, but returned to it in 1902, only to resign again in 1911. Interests and Hobbies: While living in Southsea, the seaside resort of Portsmouth, Doyle played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. Doyle was a keen cricketer, and between 1899 and 1907 he played 10 first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Doyle was also an amateur boxer. In 1909, he was invited to referee the James Jeffries v Jack Johnson heavyweight championship fight in Reno, Nevada. Also a keen golfer, Doyle was elected captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in Sussex for 1910. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ DL was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer and his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement", helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle (2019) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 9/19/2012 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 da32ed68-4975-47df-811d-69d997dd35c3