Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

With the advent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the development of the modern private detective begins.

* 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.

Financial problems reappeared in 1932 and the company was rescued by L. Prideaux Brune who funded the company for the following year before passing the company on to Sir Arthur Sutherland.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.

Author and prominent Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle learned of the photographs from the editor of the Spiritualists ' publication Light.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

* The Coming of the Fairies – scans of the original version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book ( 1922 )

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

* 1917 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer ( d. 2008 )

* 1875 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier ( d. 1933 )

In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.

" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

# General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada,

" References to the Britannica can be found throughout English literature, most notably in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, " The Red-Headed League ".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

; Forgotten Futures III: George E. Challenger's Mysterious World: Adventures with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's scientific hero, including the full text of The Lost World, " The Poison Belt ", " When The World Screamed ", The Land Of Mist, " The Horror of the Heights ", and " The Disintegration Machine ", a worldbook, four adventures, and a wargames scenario.

One of the oldest buildings is named for General Sir Arthur William Currie.

Famous people connected with the town include Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who lived at May Place between 1694 and 1707, and Sir Frederick Currie who also lived at the Manor House, May Place.

The village has a large gothic mansion which was designed by Sir Charles Barry ( later the architect of the Houses of Parliament ) for William Currie in place of an earlier building.

His flag-draped coffin was borne on a gun carriage and the mourners – who included Sir Arthur Currie and many of McCrae's friends and staff – were preceded by McCrae's charger, " Bonfire ", with McCrae's boots reversed in the stirrups.

Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB ( 5 December 1875 – 30 November 1933 ), was a Canadian general during World War I.

* The Colonel Light Hotel ( Light Square, corner Currie St ) Established in 1849 as the Sir Robert Peel Hotel, in 1888 it was renamed the Colonel Light Hotel

Among the bags, boots and balls was a golden cup given to the British Isles squad by Sir Donald Currie, owner of Union-Castle Lines, the shipping company that transported them to the southern tip of Africa.

The gold trophy was donated by Sir Donald Currie in 1891 before the arrival of the touring British Isles team.

Sir Donald was clear with his instructions — hand this trophy over to the team in South Africa that gives you the best game and after a spirited display, Griqualand West became the first ever holders of the Currie Cup.

When Byng was promoted to a higher command during the summer of 1917, he was succeeded by General Sir Arthur Currie, the commander of the 1st Division, giving the corps its first Canadian commander.

# Professor Sir Alastair Currie ( 1991 – 1993 )

* Sir Arthur Currie ( 1875-1933 ), First World War military commander, educator

* Sir Donald Currie ( 1825 – 1909 ), founder and owner, Castle Shipping Line, 1862 – 1900, and Union-Castle Line, 1900 – 1909, and politician

The British World War I Victoria Cross recipient John Vereker, later Field Marshal Viscount Gort, was Mentioned in Despatches nine times, as was the Canadian general Sir Arthur Currie.

The impoverished Griquas named the mountain where they settled Mount Currie after Sir Walter Currie who gave support to their effort to settle here.

Although it was assumed that his younger brother John Lawrence would be appointed in his place, Lord Dalhousie, who had replaced Hardinge as Governor-General, appointed Sir Frederick Currie instead.

Meanwhile, on learning of the events at Multan, Currie wrote to Sir Hugh Gough, the Commander in Chief of the Bengal Army, recommending that a major British force should at once move upon Multan.

Proposing again to return to Scotland, he afterwards resigned his appointment ; but he was induced, by the remonstrances of his friends, Dr Currie, and Mr Roscoe, of Liverpool, to accept a similar situation on board the flagship of Sir Richard76 Bickerton, who had been appointed to take the chief command of the naval power in India.

Two history classrooms, room 249 and 247, have been named after Sir Arthur Currie and James T. Shotwell.

His widow sold it to McGill in 1926 and it became the home of General Sir Arthur Currie.