Foley, Nelson (brother-in-law) 10, 326, 459, 556, 669; death of first wife 369; marries Ida 359, 359n, 364n; visits ACD 382, 542; daughter 468n; collaborates with ACD on sculpture-machine 549, 550; health 554n, 555; death 557
Foley, Nelson Trafalgar (cousin) 455, 586, 586n
Foley, Percy (nephew) 10, 554, 620
Foley, Richard ‘Dick’ (cousin) 137-8
Foley, William (grandfather) 8
Forbes, Alec (nephew) 612, 612n, 620, 669
Ford, Dr Vernon 266, 266-7n
Fox, Kate and Margaret 268
France 275n, 473, 475; in ACD’s fiction, 255n, 298, 302, 305, 310-11, 316, 347, 351, 356, 359, 361, 364-5, 367, 375, 380, 588, 589; ACD studies in 290, 292; ACD visits 76, 79, 84, 87, 88, 255, 496, 547, 586, 593, 624; Anglo-French misunderstanding 422; Anglo-French entente 555, 575, 599; army 402, 603, 631; Channel Tunnel 588, 588n; Dreyfus affair 423, 423n; Franco-Prussian War 31-2, 43, 73, 601; Riviera 309, 312, 593; World War I 590, 600, 601, 603, 606, 606n, 611, 615, 618, 620, 622n, 626, 631, 644
French, Field Marshal Sir John 611
French language: Mary Doyle’s proficiency in 3, 19, 275; ACD’s study and reading 19-20, 23, 47, 62, 76, 76n, 81, 271, 303, 327-8; translations of ACD’s works 490, 492, 493, 563
French literature 6, 33, 53, 62, 231, 243, 270, 430, 523; Balzac 231, 303; Dumas 54, 252, 259; Flaubert 6, 333; Gaboriau 243, 246; Gautier 6, 333; Goncourt 6; Maupassant 305, 327, 333, 361; Renan 380-1; Verne 53, 54, 587; Zola 298, 333, 430
Franco-Prussian War (1870) 31, 32, 73, 601
Frohman, Charles 411, 411n, 561, 595
Fullerton, Miss 97-9
Gamgee, Dr Sampson 115, 115n, 128
Garnett, Henry Highland 147-8
‘Gentlemanly Joe’ (ACD, story) 190
George V, Prince of Wales 5, 429n, 526; King 566n, 569
Germany 11; Franco-Prussian War 31-2; ACD studies language 59, 69, 78, 79, 84, 284, 299; visit to Berlin (1890), 278-80; German criticism of Boer War 486-7, 490, 492, 493; Anglo-German military competition 550, 575, 590, 597, 597-8, 601; Prince Henry of Prussia Cup 574-7; Agadir Crisis 575; war against Germany 599-22, 624-7, 630-4, 637-9, 640-2, 644, 646; German behaviour in Belgium 605-6; opposition to anti-German prejudice 607-8; bombing of English cities 615; reaction to Armistice 651-2; postwar feelings about Germany 352
Germany and the Next War (Bernhardi) 590
Gibbs, Dr Charles 440, 440n, 443, 483, 542
Gifford, Mrs (housekeeper, Bush Villa) 179-80, 181, 185, 196, 197
Gill, Thomas Patrick 272
Gillette, William 411, 419, 419n, 420, 420, 425, 426, 430, 481-2, 481n, 485, 553, 683
Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount 539
Gladstone, William Ewart 268, 423, 458
‘Golden Pince-Nez, The’ (ACD, story) 627, 627n
Good Words 186n, 190, 228
Gordon, Charles George ‘Chinese’ 362, 401, 401n
Gow, David 660, 661
Grace, W. G. 456-7, 456n
Gray, Captain John 122, 123, 126, 132; Mrs. Gray 130, 298
Great Boer War, The (ACD, nonfiction) 423n, 440, 445n, 449, 450, 460, 465, 467, 484, 498, 501; success of 468, 469, 471-2, 473-4, 528
‘Great Britain and the Next War’ (ACD, article in Fortnightly Review) 590
‘Great Keinplatz Experiment, The’ (ACD, story) 232, 233
Great Shadow, The (ACD, novel) 304n, 315
Greenhough Smith, Herbert 274n, 378, 384, 384n, 587n, 597n, 627n; letters to 470-1, 478-9, 481, 507, 514, 515, 516, 529, 552, 616, 622n, 626-7, 641n; editor of Strand 293, 294; critical of Holmes stories 513-14, 515, 516; admiration for Lost World 583
Gresham Life Assurance Society 186, 188, 192, 193, 195, 203, 226, 231-2, 233, 235-6; ‘Lay of the Grasshopper’ advertisement 199-202
Grey, Edward 601
Griffiths, Major Arthur 400, 401, 477
Grove, Coleridge 489
Haggard, H. Rider 257, 260, 387-8, 577; King Solomon’s Mines 256n, 387; She 256, 256n, 259
Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas 624, 638, 638n
Hall, Colonel Lonsdale 470, 486
Halves (ACD, play) 368, 369, 370, 411, 416, 420
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 107; Henry Irving in 65
Hampshire 221, 267n, 302
Hampshire Post 266
Hapgood, Norman 477; The Changing Years 478; editor of Collier’s Weekly 510
Hardy, Arthur 595
Hardy, Thomas 257, 289, 495, 605
Hare, John 368, 368n, 369, 370
Harmsworth, Alfred, 1st Viscount Northcliffe 562
Harper’s 249-50n, 257n, 289, 290, 318n, 319, 334
Harrison, Constance 387n
Harte, Bret 177, 199, 246
‘Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe, The’ (ACD, story) 104n, 129, 129n
Hawkins, Emily (mother-in-law) 253, 255, 267, 302, 309, 312, 322, 345n, 404, 455, 504; health 499, 499n; death 534
Hawkins, Emily ‘Nem’ (sister-in-law) 255, 255n, 261, 302, 322, 404, 499; travels 287-8, 289; health 289; and Touie’s death 534; relations with ACD 543
Hawkins, Jack 239-40
Hawkins, Sir Henry 381, 382
Hawkins, Louisa, see Conan Doyle, Louisa ‘Touie’
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 333
Hay, Admiral John 617
Henderson, General Sir Robert 669
Henley, William E. 310, 314, 314n
Hesketh-Prichard, Hesketh Vernon 573, 573n, 630-1, 630n
‘His First Operation’ (ACD, story) 96
His Last Bow (ACD, story) 576-7, 600, 601-2, 616
‘H.M.S. Foudroyant’ (ACD, poem) 43-4
Hoare, Amy 129, 133, 142, 180, 204n, 216, 261, 292; letters to 136-8, 140, 143-5, 267, 273, 274, 365-6; second mother to ACD 7, 113, 148; children 115, 120, 133; cigar smoking 116-7; German lessons 118; ACD teaches to ice skate 130; health 151; death of husband 402; finances 403
Hoare, Joey 115, 120, 133, 151, 471
Hoare, Dr Reginald Ratcliffe 138, 140n, 149, 149n, 152, 169n, 170, 215, 492; letters to 134-5, 156-7, 180-1, 280n, 292; ACD’s assistantship 7, 112-13, 116, 118, 119, 128, 148; relationship with ACD 7, 113, 129, 133, 143, 145, 181, 204n; finances 114-15; health 151, 380; visits ACD 172-3, 175, 204, 206, 228, 267, 274; death 402
Hoare, Mickey 115, 120, 133, 172-3, 173n, 181
Hodder House, Lancashire 20-2, 37
Hogg, James 166, 179; Charles Doyle’s illustrations for 51; lacks sense of humour 149-50; editor of London Society 149n; and publication of stories 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 199, 229; offered serialization 242
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 141, 339, 340
Home, Sir Anthony 221
Home, D, D, 645, 645n, 666
Hope 121, 122-8, 127, 130n, 132, 173n, 183
Hope, Anthony 10, 386, 387-8, 477, 483
Hornung, Arthur Oscar (nephew and godson) 469n, 535n, 644; birth 351n; visits ACD 374, 391, 404, 421; ‘ruined’ by mother 469; letters from 603, 626; military service 603; killed 612, 612n, 613, 614; name 636, 637; on the other side 646-7, 648, 669, 670
Hornung, E. W. ‘Willie’ (brother-in-law) 333, 373, 390, 397, 399, 455, 492, 506, 625, 647; meets and marries Connie 9, 320; as author 319; relations with ACD 320, 456-7, 488; background 320, 468; health 320; Raffles, 320, 391; reads ACD’s works 326; partner in ACD’s play 336; birth of son 351n; cricketing interests 385, 386, 453, 456; visits ACD 391, 421, 425, 554; attitude to ACD and Jean 453, 454, 455, 457; family legend related by 592; war poetry 641n, 644, 665; death of son 650
Houdini, Harry 668, 668n, 681
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (ACD, novel) 477, 478-9, 479n, 481, 483, 496, 496n
House of Temperley: A Melodrama of the Ring (ACD, play) 548, 548n, 562, 565-6, 568, 569, 588, 589
‘How My Carotid Artery was Tied’ (ACD, story) 171, 174
‘How the Brigadier Won His Medal’ (ACD, story) 345n
Huguenot Society 316
Idler, The 305, 327, 334, 681
Illustrated London News 219, 446
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p; Indian Fund 379
Ireland 11; Conan origins 17-18; Doyle origins 2, 3; Foley origins 3, 8-9, 136, 560, 643; Irish streak in ACD 3, 268; Irish at Stonyhurst 31, 74; ACD travels to 120, 136-8, 140-1, 241; ACD’s talks on Irish literature 402; Sinn Fein (Fenians) 402, 580n; Land War (1880s) 136-8; Whiteboys 592; Home Rule 4, 267-8, 357, 402, 408-9, 448, 458, 578, 579, 579n; Irish independence 580n, 621; in World War I 4, 620-1; civil war 4, 580n
Irish Brigade 379, 402
Irish Society 378, 379, 402
Iron Shroud, The (Mudford) 36
Irving, Henry 66, 102, 107, 380, 381, 501; as Hamlet 65; ACD writes Story of Waterloo for 66, 298, 312-13, 335-6; ACD sends Holmes script to 397, 398
Jakeman, Mary 659, 660n
James, William 269, 330
Jane Annie (ACD, operetta) 316, 317, 318-19
Jerome, Jerome K. 305, 310, 311, 326, 334, 358, 681-2
Jesuits 18, 19, 20, 21, 74, 75, 318, 383, 464
Jeune, Lady 377, 378, 469, 490; letter to 444
Jeune, Sir Francis 378-9, 477
‘John Barrington Cowles’ (ACD, story) 228
Journal of Medical Biography 170n
Kent Coal 592
Kernahan, Coulson 383-4
Khartoum 401, 401n; see also Sudan
King’s & Queen’s College of Ireland 115n
Kipling, Rudyard 384, 434, 494; friendship with ACD 2; ACD visits in Vermont 10, 344, 344n, 346; literary agent of 293; rifle club of 470, and war effort 605
Kitchener, General Horatio, 1st Earl Kitchener 603, 609; ACD meets in Cairo 370, 372; ACD’s letter to 377; Sudan campaign 400, 401n; and Boer War 433, 467; disbands civilian reserve 602
Koch, Dr Robert 278, 279, 280, 280n
Kruger, Paul 401, 408, 424, 425, 437, 452, 488n
Ladies’ Home Journal 240-1, 241n
Lancashire 20, 64
Lancet, The 112, 152, 203, 570; ACD’s hoax letter 117, 117n; ACD’s articles 151, 186, 193
Land of Mist, The (ACD, novel) 682
Lang, Andrew 262, 269, 299; reads Micah Clarke for Longmans 255, 256, 257-8, 260; on popular fiction 388; on literary men as MPs 466; on state honors 495
Langham Hotel 272, 304
Langman, Archie 403, 434, 436, 438, 439, 440, 452, 477
Langman, John 434, 436, 438, 440, 451, 477
Langman Field Hospital 434, 436, 439-52, 440, 445, 449, 477
Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray 560
‘Last Galley, The’ (ACD, story) 552
Lauder, Harry 640, 640n
‘Lay of the Grasshopper, The’ (ACD, poem) 5, 199-202
Le Touquet, France 586
Leckie, Dick 560
Leckie, James Blyth and Selina (parents-in-law) 412, 503, 543, 558; letters to and from 535, 673-9; and Jean’s affair with ACD 414; ACD’s relations with 417, 503; and Jean’s wedding 542; Selina’s ill health 658; Selina on the other side 678-9
Leckie, Jean, see Conan Doyle, Jean Elizabeth
Leckie, Malcolm (brother-in-law) 414; war service 603, 604, 657; killed at Mons 606, 608, 609-10, 652; on the other side 669
Leckie, Robert (brother-in-law) 503, 503n
Leckie, Stewart (brother-in-law) 472, 473
Leisure Hour 226
Leopold II, King of the Belgians 562
Leyds, Willem 488, 488n
Liberal Party 267-8, 458, 490n, 518; ACD as Liberal Unionist 267-8, 271, 311, 402, 410, 456, 457, 459-60, 461, 518; ACD as candidate in 1900 ‘khaki election’ 458, 461-6; ACD’s second campaign for Parliament 518-21, 521, 522, 525, 530-1
Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Carr) 165n, 414
Lift, The (ACD, play) 589, 589n
Light 269, 635, 660, 663n
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine 272, 341
Lister, Dr Joseph 96, 115n, 135
Living Age, The 407
Loder-Symonds, Lily 596, 597, 608, 608n, 669
Lodge, Sir Oliver 330-2, 507, 624, 629-30, 629n, 634, 654, 663, Raymond, or Life and Death 629, 634; letters to 331-2, 654
London Society 129, 149, 149n, 150, 176, 238, 242 (see also James Hogg)
London Spiritualist Alliance 624, 634, 667
London, University of 70-3
Longman, Thomas Norton 256, 257-8, 264, 274, 356
Longman’s 228, 266, 271; Micah Clarke published by 254-8, 264, 267, 271; stories published by 272, 274; Stark Munro Letters published by 356-7, 356n
‘Lord of Chateau Noir, The’ (ACD, story) 333
‘Lord of Falconbridge, The’ (ACD, story) 556
Lost World, The (ACD, novel) 13, 260, 577-8, 587, 588; illustrations 580, 582-3; publication 586; motion picture 682
Lotos Club (New York) 329, 341, 342, 342n
Macauley, Thomas Babington 67n, 68, 103, 215, 463
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London 65-6
Magee, Reverend J. A. 660-1
‘Man from Archangel, The’ (ACD, story) 237-8
‘Man with the Mattock, The’ (ACD, story) 226, 228
Maracot Deep, The (ACD, novel) 54, 682
‘Marriage of the Brigadier, The’ (ACD, story) 567, 569
Masongill Cottage (Yorkshire) 153, 206, 241, 290, 307, 359, 375, 446, 625
Masterman, Charles 605
Matheson, Robert 40, 41, 308
Maupassant, Guy de 305, 327, 333, 361
Mayumba (steamship) 141, 143-7, 172n, 339
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 386, 421, 513
McCabe, Joseph 663, 664-5, 666-7; letter to 667
McClure, S. S. 345, 345n, 408, 496, 496n
McClure’s Magazine 241n, 304, 345, 383n, 408, 460
McLean, Colin 123
Memories and Adventures (ACD) 4; Michael Conan 17; boyhood 20; father’s alcoholism 26; schooldays 29, 57; sisters 70, 273; family finances 70, 97; loss of faith 74, 165n; medical career 101, 108, 177, 291; whaling expedition 122; travels 146n, 148, 372, 596; Budd as ‘Cullingworth’ 155, 156, 170n; on Innes living with him 167, 196; Mrs Boismaison 192n; income tax 202n; literary career 233, 243, 254, 275, 524; marriage to Touie 241; political work 267-8; medical studies in Europe 278-80, 283-4; Touie’s tuberculosis 321; skiing 329-30; Anglo-American friendship 340-1; homes 352; Sir Francis and Lady Jeune 378; Payn’s death 399-400; relationship with Jean 414, 545; Sir Henry Thompson’s ‘Octave dinners’ 429n; Boer war 431, 439, 445, 451n; ill health 451n; knighthood 507; Edalji case 538-9; inventions 550n; Belgian Congo 562; theatre owner 567; Prince Henry Cup 574-5; World War I 577, 612, 646; Spiritualism 639, 656; armistice 651-2
Menpes, Mortimer: War Impressions 446-7, 447
Meredith, George 299, 495; ACD lectures on 255, 256-7, 258, 259, 588; ACD visits 306, 313; letter to 557; death 557n
Micah Clarke (ACD, novel) 260, 261, 271, 303, 306, 356, 409; historical novel 12, 248, 265, 273; title-page 249, 249-50n; rejections 251, 252-3, 254, 265; accepted by Longmans 254-5, 256, 259; influences 257n; revised and shortened 256, 258, 262; publication 264; reviews 263, 267, 272, 318n; success 274; Lang on 388
Middleton, Lord 498
Milner, Sir Alfred 401, 424
Molly Maguires 595
Monson murder trial (1893) 326-7, 327n
Morel, E. D. 562-3, 569, 570, 571
Morning Post 427, 580
Morris, Dr Malcolm 278, 280, 619; letter from 628
Motion pictures 11, 682, 683
Motorcycles 11, 511, 564, 564n, 589
‘Musgrave Ritual, The’ (ACD, story) 291
‘Mysteries of a London Growler’ (ACD, story) 228
Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Hume) 250
Mystery of Cloomber, The (ACD, novel) 253, 255, 255n, 256, 259, 260, 263, 271, 415
‘Mystery of Sasassa Valley, The’ (ACD, story) 113