James I
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
James VI and I (19 june 1566 - 27 march 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 july 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 march 1603 until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, ruled by James in personal union.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (1908)
- High Gable, the house of Don Juan Murillo, was a famous old Jacobean grange (WIST 546).
The Valley of Fear (1914)
- Erected in the fifth year of the reign of James I, and standing upon the site of a much older building, the Manor House of Birlstone presented one of the finest surviving examples of the moated Jacobean residence (VALL 1627).
