View source for Jean Elizabeth Leckie

[[File:1906-young-jean-leckie-zoom.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Jean Leckie (1906)]]

Jean Elizabeth Leckie (14 march 1874 - 27 june 1940) was the second wife of [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]. They married on 18 september 1907, but Conan Doyle was in love with her since 1897, a platonic love until the death of his first wife in 1906. They installed in Crowborough (Sussex), where she gave him 3 children ([[Denis Percy Conan Doyle |Denis]] in 1909, [[Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle|Adrian]] in 1910, [[Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle|Lena Jean]] in 1912). 

In 1897, when Conan Doyle met her, she was a tall, thin and delicate woman, but also athletic and passionnate.

In his [[Memories and Adventures]] (1923), Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:

: « ''On September 18, 1907, I married Miss Jean Leckie, the younger daughter of a Blackheath family whom I had known for years, and who was a dear friend of my mother and sister. There are some things which one feels too intimately to be able to express, and I can only say that the years have passed without one shadow coming to mar even for a moment the sunshine of my Indian summer which now deepens to a golden autumn. She and my three younger children with the kindly sympathy of my two elder ones have made my home an ideally happy one. My wife's people had a house at Crowborough, and there they had gone to reside. As they were very attached I thought it would be a happy arrangement not to separate them, so I bought a house close by, named "Windlesham."'' »


__TOC__


== Photos of Jean Leckie then Jean Conan Doyle ==

<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
File:1906-young-jean-leckie.jpg|Jean Leckie (1906)
File:the-chicago-tribune-1907-07-22-p5-bride-to-be-of-sherlock-holmes-author-photo.jpg|Jean Leckie (july 1907)
File:1907-07-16-jean-leckie.jpg|Jean Leckie (16 july 1907)
File:the-sketch-1907-07-31-photo.jpg|Jean Leckie (16 july 1907)
File:1907-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-jean-leckie-wedding.jpg|Marriage (18 september 1907)
File:1907ca-jean-conan-doyle1.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle (ca. 1907)
File:1907-jean-leckie-now-lady-conan-doyle-recto.jpg|Jean Leckie now Lady Conan Doyle (1907)
File:1910ca-jean-conan-doyle.jpg|Lady Conan Doyle (ca. 1910)
File:1910-jean-leckie-conan-doyle.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle (1910)
File:1915ca-jean-leckie-conan-doyle-and-children.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle and her two sons (ca. 1915)
File:1920-jean-and-arthur-conan-doyle-on-spirit-photography.jpg|Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle on a spirit photograph (1920)
File:1920ca-jean-and-arthur-conan-doyle.jpg|Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle (ca. 1920)
File:1920ca-jean-and-arthur-conan-doyle-with-jean-meyer.jpg|Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle with [[Jean Meyer]] (ca. 1920)
File:1921-01-arthur-conan-doyle-and-family-visit-h-l-jones-bee-farm-in-australia.jpg|Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle visiting H. L. Jones bee farm in Australia (1921)
File:1922-arthur-conan-doyle-and-houdini-in-atlantic-city.jpg|Jean and family with [[Houdini]] (center) in Atlantic City (1922)
File:1922-10-04-jean-conan-doyle.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle (1922)
</gallery>


<html><a id='WvJjsE4JQpZnUMNeAez2MA' class='gie-single' href='http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/3398798' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images</a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'WvJjsE4JQpZnUMNeAez2MA',sig:'ZACYsxVhIRFXK2avNyW5x7O08rd-z91NVUgqEe5u5Rk=',w:'460px',h:'594px',items:'3398798',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});</script><script src='//embed-cdn.gettyimages.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async></script></html>


<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
File:1923-arthur-conan-doyle-and-jean-with-houdini.jpg|Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle with [[Houdini]] (23 june 1923)
</gallery>


Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle with [[Douglas Fairbanks]] (2nd right) and his wife [[Mary Pickford]] (3rd right) (august 1923)

<html><a id='Rkc9VjqeQa9uoaipLPemnQ' class='gie-single' href='http://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/507415669' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images</a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Rkc9VjqeQa9uoaipLPemnQ',sig:'0QoHo_T69RshB_Ooaq4TLG3Sdw_scjh11JfI96xjETw=',w:'594px',h:'459px',items:'507415669',caption: true ,tld:'ie',is360: false })});</script><script src='//embed-cdn.gettyimages.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async></script></html>


<gallery mode="packed" heights="230px">
File:1923-03-arthur-conan-doyle-and-family-at-victoria-station-departing-to-usa2.jpg|Jean and Arthur with children (1923)
File:1923-04-03-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-family-ship-olympic1.jpg|Jean and Arthur with children on RMS Olympic (1923)
File:Memories-and-adventures-1924-hodder-5.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle in [[Memories and Adventures]] (1924)
File:1926-arthur-and-jean-conan-doyle-at-the-english-amateur-billiards-championship.jpg|[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] and his wife Jean at the English Amateur Billiards Championship with J. Earlam (Runcorn), Winner and C. M. Heyler (Middlesbrough), Runner up (1926).
</gallery>


<html><a id='q-K4SCvqSHlNWVVNS29OeQ' class='gie-single' href='http://www.gettyimages.in/detail/500901847' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images</a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'q-K4SCvqSHlNWVVNS29OeQ',sig:'4OH2HyS1NPUCUgql4pXmZ5Ye888p175NX9WITG3Ju-g=',w:'467px',h:'594px',items:'500901847',caption: true ,tld:'in',is360: false })});</script><script src='//embed-cdn.gettyimages.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async></script></html>


<gallery mode="packed" heights="400px">
File:1929-10-arthur-and-jean-conan-doyle-in-Stockholm-Sweden.jpg|Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle in Stockholm, Sweden (1929)

File:1930-07-07-lady-jean-conan-doyle.jpg|Lady Conan Doyle (7 july 1930)
</gallery>


[[Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle|Lena Jean]], [[Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle|Adrian]] and Jean Conan Doyle during the [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] funeral (11 july 1930)

<html><a id='w9bE3ueOSnN8PDTq8t0cVA' class='gie-single' href='http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/79668484' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images</a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'w9bE3ueOSnN8PDTq8t0cVA',sig:'slMdqju_6Kqgd0I2LgGkUhyw1o0FIQzUaNvLpAk4Vt8=',w:'594px',h:'448px',items:'79668484',caption: true ,tld:'fr',is360: false })});</script><script src='//embed-cdn.gettyimages.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async></script></html>


'''Undated'''

<gallery mode="packed" heights="300px">
File:1925-1930s-jean-conan-doyle-with-denis-and-adrian-at-bignell-woods-01.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle with Denis and Adrian at Bignell Woods (1925~1930s)
File:1925-1930s-jean-conan-doyle-with-denis-and-adrian-at-bignell-woods-02.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle with Denis and Adrian at Bignell Woods (1925~1930s)
</gallery>



== Videos of Lady Conan Doyle ==

* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Family on RMS Adriatic (movie 1922)|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Family on RMS Adriatic]] (1922)
* [[Lady Conan Doyle attends dramatic demonstration by Mrs. Meurig Morris]] (1931)


== Biography ==

'''1874'''
* 14.03.1874 : Birth of Jean Elizabeth Leckie. Daughter of James Blythe Leckie and Selina Leckie.
'''1881'''
* 03.04.1881 : Living at The Avenue, Eltham, Kent. She had two brothers (Malcolm and Patrick) and a sister Sarah.
* 05.04.1891 : Living at Glebe House, The Glebe, Lee. She had one more brother (Patrick).
'''1897'''
* 15.03.1897 : [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] met Jean Leckie.
* 26.11.1897 : Jean Leckie dined at Conan Doyle's house, at Undershaw.
* 06.12.1897 : Jean Leckie had tea at Conan Doyle's house, at Undershaw and had a walk to Waggoner's Wells near Minstead with Innes Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle and Miss Halahan.
* 22.12.1897 : Jean Leckie went hunting at Elstead with Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget and Miss Halahan.
'''1898'''
* 23.12.1898 : Jean Leckie went to the Conan Doyle's grand fancy-dress ball at the Hindhead Beacon Hotel. She was disguised as one of the Queens Maries.
'''1901'''
* 31.03.1901 : Jean Leckie stayed at Ashdown Forest/Park Hotel, Forest Row, Sussex, with Arthur Conan Doyle and her mother. 
* july 1901 : Jean Leckie won a bronze medal as a vocalist in the London Academy of Music's public examination.
'''1902'''
* 14.03.1902 : [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was with Jean Leckie for her birthday.
'''1904'''
* 31.03.1904 : The Leckies were at Undershaw.
'''1906'''
* 04.07.1906 : Death of [[Louisa Hawkins|Lady Louisa Conan Doyle]], the (first) wife of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].
* 12.12.1906 : Jean Leckie went to the Scala Theatre, London, with [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[John Francis Innes Hay Doyle|Innes Doyle]] and [[Bryan Mary Julia Josephine Doyle|Bryan Mary Doyle]].
'''1907'''
* 08.07.1907 : Jean Leckie had a diner with the Conan Doyles for the Conan Doyle's mother birthday.
* 31.08.1907 : Jean Leckie and [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] visited Innes Doyle at Aldershot for Sports Day.
* 18.09.1907 : Jean Leckie married [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]and became the second Lady Conan Doyle. The wedding was held at 1.45 pm at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Innes Doyle was the best man. They were married by Cyril Angell. The reception was held at Whitehall Rooms in The Hotel Metropole at 2.45 pm. gathering 250 guests including [[Jerome K. Jerome]], [[Bram Stoker]], [[J. M. Barrie]], [[George Newnes]], [[Max Pemberton]], [[Herbert Greenhough Smith]] and [[George Edalji]].
* 21.09.1907 : Jean and Arthur started their honeymoon in Paris at Hotel Regina. Then Berlin, Venice, Rome, Naples, Athens, Smyrna and Constantinople.
'''1909'''
* 17.03.1909 : Birth of her first child [[Denis Percy Conan Doyle|Denis]] at Windlesham, Crowborough.
'''1910'''
* 19.11.1910 : Birth of her second child [[Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle|Adrian]] at Windlesham, Crowborough.
'''1912'''
* 21.12.1912 : Birth of her third child [[Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle|Lena Jean]] at Windlesham, Crowborough.
'''1920'''
* 1920-1930 : Jean acted as a spiritualist medium.
'''1922'''
* april-june 1922 : [[Our American Adventure|First voyage to USA]] with Conan Doyle touring lecturing about spiritualism.
'''1923'''
* march-august 1923 : [[Our Second American Adventure|Second tour to USA]] with Conan Doyle touring lecturing about spiritualism.
'''1928'''
* 1928-1929 : [[Our African Winter|Tour to Africa]] with Sir Arthur and children.
'''1930'''
* 07.07.1930 : Death of her husband [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].
'''1940'''
* 27.06.1940 : Death of Lady Jean Conan Doyle. She was buried at the same place than her husband at All Saints Church, Minstead, The New Forest, Crowborough.


== Performers ==

<gallery mode="packed" heights="130px">
File:1966-conan-doyle-und-der-fall-edalji-leckie.jpg|[[Barbara Schmid]] as Jean Leckie in TV movie [[Conan Doyle und der Fall Edalji]] (1966)

File:1972-the-edwardians-conan-doyle-s01e04-lady-doyle.jpg|[[Maria Aitken]] as Jean Leckie in TV episode [[Conan Doyle (The Edwardians S01E04)|Conan Doyle]] (1972)

File:1985-the-stamp-of-greatness-s01e01-jean-lilly.jpg|Jean Conan Doyle (left) in documentary [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The man who was Sherlock Holmes]] (1985)

File:silhouette-woman.jpg|[[Victoria Carling]] as Jean Leckie in radio show [[Conan Doyle and The Edalji Case (radio 1987)|Conan Doyle and The Edalji Case]] (1987)

File:1998-houdini-schaech-lady-doyle.jpg|[[Judy Geeson]] as Lady Doyle in the TV movie [[Houdini (TV movie 1998)|Houdini]] (1998)

File:2005-the-strange-case-of-sherlock-holmes-and-arthur-conan-doyle-jean-leckie.jpg|[[Emily Blunt]] as Jean Leckie in TV movie [[The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle]] (2005)

File:2014-houdini-brody-lady-doyle.jpg|[[Linda Marlowe]] as Lady Conan Doyle in TV series [[Houdini (TV series 2014)|Houdini]] (2014)

File:2015-arthur-and-george-jean-leckie.jpg|[[Hattie Morahan]] as Jean Leckie in TV series [[Arthur & George]] (2015)

File:2018-sherlock-holmes-and-the-conundrum-of-conan-doyle-lady-doyle2.jpg|[[Angela Duguid]] as Lady Doyle in the play [[Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan Doyle]] (2018)

File:2019-ether-reading-hayden-lady-doyle.jpg|[[Chelsea Rodriguez]] as Lady Doyle in the stage reading [[Ether: The Strange Afterlife of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (reading)|Ether: The Strange Afterlife of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] (2019)
</gallery>









----
* [[Family|Back to Conan Doyle's Family]]
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]