Arthur Conan Doyle
Interestingly, Rudyard Kipling congratulated Conan Doyle on his success, asking "Could
this be my old friend, Dr. Joe?" Sherlock Holmes, however, was even more closely
modelled after the famous Edgar Allan Poe character, C. Auguste Dupin.
While living in Southsea he played football for an amateur side (that disbanded in 1894),
Portsmouth Association Football Club. (This club had no connection with the Portsmouth
F.C. of today.)
In 1885, he married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie", who suffered from
tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. He married Jean Leckie in 1907, whom he had first
met and fallen in love with in 1897 but had maintained a platonic relationship with her
out of loyalty to his first wife. Conan Doyle had five children, two with his first wife
(Mary Louise (born 1889) and Alleyne Kingsley (1892 1918)) and three with his
second wife (Jean Lena Annette, Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 9 March 1955),
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