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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:hotel-regina-sacd-estimation-height-2000.jpg|thumb|400px|right|In 2000, Anne-Sophie Mailliez (member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of France) verified Arthur Conan Doyle size at the very same spot in front of the Hôtel Regina (Paris) where ACD posed for a photo. Estimation result was 6,23 feet.]]<br />
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Arthur Conan Doyle height was 6,2 feet. <br />
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In his novel [[A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus]] (1899) which is inspired from his own life, the main character Frank Crosse (i.e Conan Doyle) is described by Conan Doyle himself : « ''He was a fine man, six feet two inches from crown to sole.'' »<br />
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It was mentioned by journalists and estimated from photos. <br />
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[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] often mentioned characters of his size in fictions. Especially [[Sherlock Holmes]]. See [[#6_feet_in_fictions|list]] below.<br />
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== In the press ==<br />
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'''1904'''<br />
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* [[Inches and Eminence]] (august 1904, [[The Strand Magazine]])<br />
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: [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] is six feet two in the chart below:<br />
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: [[File:the-strand-magazine-1904-08-p214-inches-and-eminence-photo1.jpg|thumb|700px|center|[[The Strand Magazine]] (august 1904, p. 214). Conan Doyle is at 6,2 feet.]]<br />
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'''1905'''<br />
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* [[Arthur Conan Doyle (article 26 november 1905)|Arthur Conan Doyle]] (26 november 1905, [[New-York Tribune]])<br />
: « ''He is over six feet in height, stalwart, muscular, seeing all things in a big, large-hearted way.'' »<br />
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'''1914'''<br />
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* [[Conan Doyle Here, Expects Irish War]] (28 may 1914, [[The New-York Times]])<br />
: « ''Sir Arthur is more than 6 feet tall and broad shouldered.'' » <br />
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* [[Conan Doyle Fears Drastic Uprising Against Militants]] (31 may 1914, [[The New-York Times]])<br />
: « ''Sir Arthur is a huge man, well over six feet, with a powerful frame.'' »<br />
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'''1922'''<br />
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* [[Conan Doyle Tells of Spiritualism, the Great Religion of the Future]] (11 april 1922, [[The Evening World]])<br />
: « ''Sir Conan stands well over six feet and his broad shoulders are as unbowed as when he paid us his last visit just before the War.'' »<br />
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* [[You Start in There Where You Leave Off Here]] (september 1922, [[The American Magazine]])<br />
: « ''He is somewhat under six feet and must weigh well on toward two hundred pounds — all of it solid muscle and bone.'' »<br />
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== In biographies ==<br />
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'''1943'''<br />
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* [[Conan Doyle: His Life and Art]], by Hesketh Pearson (1943, Methuen & Co.)<br />
: « ''At the age of twenty-one he was over six feet in height, brown-haired, gray-eyed, broad, and forty-three round the chest.'' »<br />
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== 6 feet in fictions ==<br />
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* '''Sherlock Holmes''' in [[A Study in Scarlet]] (1887)<br />
: « ''In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller.'' »<br />
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* '''Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein''' in [[A Scandal in Bohemia]] (1891)<br />
: « He could hardly have been less than six feet six inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules.'' »<br />
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* '''Mr. Barker's father''' in [[The Tragedians]] (1894)<br />
: « ''My father was six feet two...'' »<br />
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* '''Beaumont''' in [[How the King Held the Brigadier]] (1895)<br />
: « ''I have already said that he was a very tall man, six feet at least, and it seemed to me that if I could mount upon his shoulders...'' »<br />
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* '''Frank Crosse''' in [[A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus]] (1899)<br />
: « ''He was a fine man, six feet two inches from crown to sole.'' »<br />
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* '''Sir John Bollamore''' in [[The Story of the Japanned Box]] (1899)<br />
: « ''For he was a very formidable person. Imagine a man six feet three inches in height, majestically built, with a high-nosed, aristocratic face...'' »<br />
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* '''Sherlock Holmes''' in [[The Adventure of the Three Students]] (1904)<br />
: « ''I am six feet high, and I could do it with an effort.'' »<br />
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* '''Guy Falconbridge''' in [[The Lord of Falconbridge]] (1909)<br />
: « ''... considering his six feet in height, his thirteen stone solid muscle...'' »<br />
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* '''Lord John Roxton''' in [[The Lost World]] (1912)<br />
: « ''His height was a little over six feet, but he seemed shorter on account of a peculiar rounding of the shoulders. Such was the famous Lord John Roxton.'' »<br />
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