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In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London — probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case.
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Keynes's brother Sir Geoffrey Keynes ( 1887 – 1982 ) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile.
He married Caroline Knox, a daughter of Sir Thomas George Knox, the British consul-general in Bangkok ( 1824 – 1887 ), and his Thai wife, Prang Yen.
Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet ( 21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887 ) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist.
In January 1887 at the age of 83, Sir Joseph Whitworth died in Monte Carlo where he had travelled in the hope of improving his health.
Valentine BakerValentine Baker ( also known as Baker Pasha ) ( 1827 – 1887 ), British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker.
* Sir Robert Montgomery ( administrator ) ( 1809 – 1887 ), Irish-born British Colonial official in India
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS ( 22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975 ) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist.
In early 1887, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, resigned because of illness and Salisbury appointed his nephew in his place.
* Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 3rd Baronet ( 1821 – 1887 ) ( succeeded as Earl of Chesterfield in 1883 )
Among the representatives were the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Andrei Gromyko ( 1909 – 1989 ); Wellington Koo ( 1887 – 1985 ), Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom ; and U. S. Undersecretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), each of whom chaired his respective delegation.
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually knighted on October 24, 1902 by King Edward VII due to his work The War in South Africa: Its causes and conduct, not by Queen Victoria in 1887, as seen in the film.
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS ( 26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979 ), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.
Canada issued an interesting stamp depicting a map of the entire world, with British possessions marked in red, inscribed " XMAS 1898 " ( the rate took effect on Christmas Day ), and " WE HOLD A VASTER EMPIRE THAN HAS BEEN " underneath, a line extracted from " A Song of Empire " composed by Sir Lewis Morris in 1887.
The Muztagh Pass was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband and the valleys above the Hunza River were explored by General Sir George K. Cockerill in 1892.
He later held a number of ministerial posts in the Cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald and was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1887 to 1892.
He supported Sir Henry Parkes on the free trade side but, when Parkes came into power in 1887, declined a seat in his ministry.
The London Missionary Society and Sir James Cantlie started the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887 ( although, the ‘ for Chinese ’ was later dropped from the name ).
In 1887, Sir William Gull suffered the first of several strokes at his Scottish home at Urrard House, Killiecrankie.
His studies in English literature were no less comprehensive, and included the valuable revision of Sir Walter Scott's edition of John Dryden's Works ( Edinburgh, 18 vols., 1882 – 1893 ), Dryden ( 1881 ) in the " English Men of Letters " series, History of Elizabethan Literature ( 1887 ), History of Nineteenth Century Literature ( 1896 ), A Short History of English Literature ( 1898, 3rd ed.
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Earnest Hooton ( 1887 – 1954 ), a Classics PhD from the University of Wisconsin, entered anthropology as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar under R. R. Marett and the anatomist Arthur Keith.
* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1887 ) The Real History of the Rosicrucians G. Redway, London OCLC 7080058 ; reprinted in 1960 by Society of Metaphysicians, Hastings, England, ISBN 1-85228-705-5 ; reprinted in 2000 by Garber Communications, Blauvelt, New York, ISBN 0-89345-018-9 ; see full text from The Internet Sacred Text Archive
These children were Raymond ( 1878 – 1916 ), Herbert ( 1881 – 1947 ), Arthur ( 1883 – 1939 ), Violet ( 1887 – 1969 ), and Cyril ( 1890 – 1954 ).
Alexander F. Lobdell, the store's proprietor, was appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln and was reappointed by Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, continuing as Brewster's postmaster until 1887.
The first kite aerial photographs were taken by British meteorologist Douglas Archibald in 1887 and Arthur Batut in Labruguière ( France ) in 1888.
S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz cited other literary inspirations: Guy de Maupassant's " The Horla " ( 1887 ), which Lovecraft described in " Supernatural Horror in Literature " as concerning " an invisible being who ... sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind "; and Arthur Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal " ( 1895 ), which uses the same method of piecing together of disassociated knowledge ( including a random newspaper clipping ) to reveal the survival of a horrific ancient being.
In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.
See also Arthur Chuquet, De Ewaldi Kleistii vita et scriptis ( Paris, 1887 ), and Heinrich Pröhle, Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur ( 1872 ).
Massinger's independent works were collected by Thomas Coxeter ( 4 vols., 1759, revised edition with introduction by Thomas Davies, 1779 ), by J. Monck Mason ( 4 vols., 1779 ), by William Gifford ( 4 vols., 1805, 1813 ), by Hartley Coleridge ( 1840 ), by Lt. Col. Cunningham ( 1867 ), and selections by Arthur Symons in the Mermaid Series ( 1887 – 9 ).
A device similar to the Rogowski coil was described by Arthur Prince Chattock of Bristol University in 1887.
Emilia Tennyson ( 1811 – 1887 ), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A. H. H., was written.
Arthur Edward Stilwell began construction on the first line of what would become the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1887, in suburban Kansas City, Missouri.
From 1887 to 1889 the Minster was mostly rebuilt in the perpendicular style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.
Image: Chestnut_Hill_Water_Works_high-service_pumping_station. jpg | The High Service Building at Chestnut Hill Water Works, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts ; Arthur H. Vinal, architect, 1887
Kansas City Southern was founded in 1887 by Arthur Edward Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U. S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.
Lord Salisbury married Lady Cicely Gore, second daughter of Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, in 1887.
Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall, VC ( 4 October 1887 – 27 March 1918 ) was a British-Ceylonese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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