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,

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

" 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.

An operatic adaptation by Sir Arthur Sullivan ( entitled Ivanhoe ) ran for over 150 consecutive performances in 1891.

To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.

* November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO ( 13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900 ) was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry.

For instance, the Illustrated London News praised the work of both Gilbert and, especially, Sullivan: " Sir Arthur Sullivan has eminently succeeded alike in the expression of refined sentiment and comic humour.

On the day of the premiere, The New York Times, whose correspondent attended the dress rehearsal the day before, warned, " The music is not up to the standard of Sir Arthur Sullivan.

In November, he returned to America with Gilbert, Sullivan and a company of strong singers, including J. H. Ryley as Sir Joseph, Blanche Roosevelt as Josephine, Alice Barnett as Little Buttercup, Furneaux Cook as Dick Deadeye, Hugh Talbot as Ralph Rackstraw and Jessie Bond as Cousin Hebe.

' I cannot find words to convey to the reader the pain I felt in seeing those dear children taught to utter such words to amuse ears grown callous to their ghastly meaning .... How Mr. Gilbert could have stooped to write, or Sir Arthur Sullivan could have prostituted his noble art to set to music, such vile trash, it passes my skill to understand ".

A lifelong Gilbert and Sullivan fan, in 1975, Wilson joined the Board of Trustees of the D ' Oyly Carte Trust at the invitation of Sir Hugh Wontner, who was then the Lord Mayor of London.

* The Foresters Web Opera – Score by Sir Arthur Sullivan for a play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with additional music arranged by persons unknown.

* November 26-Herbert Sullivan, nephew and biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan ( born 1868 )

* " The Lost Chord " ( w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan )-William F. Hooley on Berliner Records

* The Rose of Persia ( music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood ) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 29

*" The Lost Chord " ( w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan )-Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison

Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan )-J. W. Myers on Berliner

Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and by 1880 a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked " executive cohesion ".

* " The Lost Chord " w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan ( Words 1858 )

* The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan – London and Broadway productions

* The Gondoliers ( Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book & Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert ) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on December 7 and ran for 554 performances

Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan

* Iolanthe ( Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert ); London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25 and ran for 398 performances