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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He wa…
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science · British writer and physician (1859–1930) · physician · physician writer · novelist · essayist · playwright · screenwriter · science fiction writer · children's writer · crime fiction writer · short story writer · also Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir A. Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Doyle
Born 22 May 1859 · Died 7 July 1930 · Q35610
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2026· 17 entries
History is Now: The Cottingley Fairies: Timeline of a Hoax That Fooled Arthur Conan Doyle
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Daily Mail: Sherlock Holmes and the case of the trademark battle: Arthur Conan Doyle's estate wins fight with businessman over name of detective's sidekick Dr Watson
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The Times: Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate wins Dr Watson trademark battle
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Cadena 3 Argentina: Espiritismo: la defensa de Arthur Conan Doyle sobre la vida después de la muerte
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“I was much inclined to accept ... though my friends pictured me as winding up with a revolver at one ear and a razor at the other. However, the distance and my engagements presented a final bar.”
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The Guardian: ‘Boxing is in the blood’: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle and the prize ring
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Cricinfo: Arthur Conan Doyle Debut and last played matches in Tests, ODIs, T20Is and other formats
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Mshale: My Friend The Murderer And Other Mysteries By Arthur Conan Doyle | Full Audiobook Freiburg Vs Braga (ue8Ui6KdW7)
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The Economic Times: Wednesday Motivation by Arthur Conan Doyle: 'What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people...' - The Adventures of Sherlock ...
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Arthur Conan Doyle: 'For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to
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La Razón: Arthur Conan Doyle: el espiritista que hablaba con los difuntos
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Country Life: From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to T.S Eliot: London Library's most literary members go digital
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BroadwayWorld: Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Guardian: Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’
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The Guardian: Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle
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The Guardian: Houdini’s reappearing act: David Haig’s new play lays bare the magician’s dispute with Conan Doyle
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Arthur Conan Doyle secretly resented his Sherlock Holmes creation, says historian
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,052 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,009 times.
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2017· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 11 février 2017.”
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2016· 1 entry
Researchers at the Natural History Museum and Liverpool John Moores University analyzed DNA evidence showing that responsibility for the hoax lay with the amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson, who had originally "found"
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2012· 1 entry
The High Court in London ruled in favour of those seeking to preserve the historic building, ordering that the redevelopment permission be quashed on the ground that it had not been obtained through proper procedures
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2009· 1 entry
Was among the ten people selected by the Royal Mail for their "Eminent Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue
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2003· 1 entry
“Wyd. Zielona Sowa, Kraków 2003 (tłum. Katarzyna Surówka)”
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2001· 2 entries
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,635 times.
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,662 times.
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1954· 1 entry
“Wyd. Iskry, Warszawa 1954”
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1930· 29 entries
Died 1930-07-07.
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“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement, the placation of the Almighty by blood—all this is abhorrent to me. The spirit-guides do not insist upon these aspects of religion.”
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“Es una vieja máxima mía que “cuando hayas descartado lo imposible, lo que quede, aunque sea improbable, debe ser la verdad”».[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth].”
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“Donde no hay imaginación, no hay horror.”
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“schottischer Kriminalautor”
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“Źle się dzieje, gdy dwóch ludzi nie może podzielić się myślami.”
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“Opis: Sherlock Holmes o Culvertonie Smithie.”
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“W żadnym wypadku przesadnej skromności nie zaliczam do zalet. Człowiek myślący logicznie powinien widzieć wszystkie zjawiska życiowe we właściwym świetle, to jest takimi, jakimi są w rzeczywistości. Gdy więc nie doceniamy siebie, zniekształcamy prawdę, podobnie, jak gdybyśmy przeceniali swe możliwości.”
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“Wadą bystrego umysłu jest to, że zawsze może on podsunąć kolejne tropy, a te bywają fałszywe.”
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“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. (ang.)”
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“Du bist wunderbar." - Letzte Worte, zu seiner Frau Jean, 7. Juli 1930”
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“Przykład cierpliwości i pokory w cierpieniu jest sam w sobie najcenniejszą z nauk dla tego niecierpliwego świata.”
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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (ang.)”
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“Kiedy ktoś usiłuje wynieść się ponad prawa natury, najczęściej pada ich ofiarą. Najlepszy z ludzi gotów stać się zwierzęciem, gdy zboczy z prostej drogi przeznaczenia.”
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“Postacie: profesor Moriarty i Sherlock Holmes”
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“Człowiek, który kocha sztukę dla sztuki, przeważnie najwięcej radości czerpie z najmniej znaczących i najskromniejszych jej przejawów.”
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“Co jeden człowiek wynajdzie, to drugi może wykryć.”
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“Są ludzie, którzy sami nie mając geniuszu, posiadają talent pobudzania go u innych.”
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“Opis: Sherlock Holmes do doktora Mortimera.”
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“Opis: inspektor Lestrade do Sherlocka Holmesa.”
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“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! (ang.)”
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“Tylko niezwykle nikczemny i podły człowiek nie jest opłakiwany przez żadną kobietę.”
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“Opis: Henry Baskerville do doktora Watsona.”
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“Niektórzy ludzie, których natura nie obdarzyła geniuszem, posiadają niezwykłą moc jego stymulowania u innych.”
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“Na świecie jest wiele rzeczy oczywistych, których jednak nikt nigdy nie zauważa.”
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“(…) Co jasne i oczywiste, budzi mniejsze przerażenie niż przypuszczenia i pogłoski.”
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“Im dane wydarzenie jest bardziej dziwaczne i groteskowe, w tym większym stopniu zasługuje na dokładne zbadanie, a ten sam szczegół, który zdaje się komplikować sprawę, jeśli jest należycie rozważony i potraktowany, może wyjaśnić wszystkie niewiadome.”
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“Intensywny wysiłek umysłowy ma to do siebie, że zaciera w pamięci ostatnie wydarzenia.”
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“Opis: Sherlock Holmes do doktora Watsona.”
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1927· 1 entry
Doyle gave a filmed interview, in which he spoke about Sherlock Holmes and spiritualism
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1926· 1 entry
Doyle laid the foundation stone for a Spiritualist Temple in Camden, London
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1924· 1 entry
The Zancigs confessed that their mind reading act had been a trick; they published the secret code and all other details of the trick method they had used under the title "Our Secrets
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1922· 1 entry
The psychical researcher Harry Price accused the "spirit photographer" William Hope of fraud
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1920· 2 entries
Doyle travelled to Australia and New Zealand on spiritualist missionary work, and over the next several years, until his death, he continued his mission, giving talks about his spiritualist conviction in Britain, Europe,
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Doyle and the noted sceptic Joseph McCabe held a public debate at Queen's Hall in London, with Doyle taking the position that the claims of spiritualism were true
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1918· 1 entry
Published his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation
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1916· 2 entries
And Kingsley died on 28 October 1918 (from pneumonia contracted during his convalescence after being seriously wounded in the 1916 Battle of the Somme)
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At the height of the First World War, Doyle's belief in psychic phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be the psychic abilities of his children's nanny, Lily Loder Symonds
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1915· 1 entry
(at a different site) came from the same jaw as that of the Piltdown Man, suggesting that he had planted them both
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1914· 2 entries
On a family trip to the Jasper National Park in Canada, he designed a golf course and ancillary buildings for a hotel
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Doyle was one of fifty-three leading British authors—including H
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1909· 3 entries
Wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors of that colony
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He had an additional three with his second wife: Denis Percy Stewart (1909–1955), who became the second husband of the Georgian noblewoman Nina Mdivani; Adrian Malcolm (1910–1970); and Jean Lena Annette (1912–1997).
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Was invited to referee the James Jeffries–Jack Johnson heavyweight championship fight in Reno, Nevada
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1907· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Medjidie (1907).
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The year after Louisa's death, he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie (1874–1940)
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1906· 1 entry
Involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji, who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals in Great Wyrley
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1903· 5 entries
Awarded Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John (1903).
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“(Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard (1903)”
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“Arbeit ist das beste Mittel gegen Trauer." - Sherlock Holmes, Das leere Haus, Originaltitel: The Adventure of the Empty House , erschienen 1903, Übersetzer: Alexander Wlk gutenberg.spiegel.de”
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Whose purpose was discussion of crime and detection, criminals and criminology, and continues to this day as "Our Society", with membership numbers limited to 100
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Doyle published his first Holmes short story in ten years, "The Adventure of the Empty House", in which it was explained that only Moriarty had fallen, but since Holmes had other dangerous enemies—especially Colonel Seba
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1902· 3 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1902).
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And was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1903
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“Wyd. Noskowskiego, Warszawa 1902 (tłum. Eugenii Żmijewskiej)”
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1901· 4 entries
Won Queen's South Africa Medal (1901).
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“A British Commando", The Strand Magazine (June 1901), referencing the NRA Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan-Doyle's desire to develop local rifle clubs more accessible to working class men.”
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Doyle was one of three judges for the world's first major bodybuilding competition, which was organised by the "Father of Bodybuilding", Eugen Sandow
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In the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
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1900· 2 entries
In Edinburgh Central, and in 1906 in the Hawick Burghs, but was not elected
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Doyle founded the Undershaw Rifle Club at his home, constructing a 100-yard range and providing shooting for local men, as the poor showing of British troops in the Boer War had led him to believe that the general popula
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1897· 2 entries
But had maintained a platonic relationship with her while his first wife was still alive, out of loyalty to her
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He had met and fallen in love with Jean in 1897, but had maintained a platonic relationship with her while his first wife was still alive, out of loyalty to her.
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1895· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1895).
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When he commissioned an architect friend of his, Joseph Henry Ball, to build him a home, he played an active part in the design process
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“Dr. A. Conan Doyle (May 1895). "Testimony of an Enthusiast". Demorest’s Family Magazine.”
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1893· 1 entry
In the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness
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1892· 2 entries
In a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes
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“It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes ... round the centre of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man”
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1889· 3 entries
Returned to it in 1902, and resigned again in 1911
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He had two with his first wife: Mary Louise (1889–1976) and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (1892–1918).
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Became a founding member of the Hampshire Society for Psychical Research; in 1893, he joined the London-based Society for Psychical Research; and in 1894, he collaborated with Sir Sidney Scott and Frank Podmore in a s
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1887· 3 entries
In Southsea, influenced by Major-General Alfred Wilks Drayson, a member of the Portsmouth Literary and Philosophical Society, Doyle began a series of investigations into the possibility of psychic phenomena and attended
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(on 26 January), he was initiated as a Freemason at the Phoenix Lodge No
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And the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) was the first of twenty-four monthly Holmes stories published in The Strand Magazine, for which Doyle became one of the most famous and well-paid authors of his time
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1885· 2 entries
In 1885, Doyle married Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Hawkins (1857–1906).
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Doyle married Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Hawkins (1857–1906)
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1884· 1 entry
“J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement”
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1882· 1 entry
Doyle partnered with his former classmate George Turnavine Budd in a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice
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1881· 2 entries
Studied at University of Edinburgh Medical School (1876–1881).
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Was ship's surgeon on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast
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1876· 1 entry
Studied at Stella Matutina (1875–1876).
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1875· 1 entry
Studied at Stonyhurst College (1870–1875).
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1870· 1 entry
Studied at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (1868–1870).
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1867· 1 entry
The family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place
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1864· 1 entry
The family scattered because of Charles's growing alcoholism
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1859· 1 entry
Born 1859-05-22.
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