Philip Weller
Philip Weller is a British sherlockian and doylean expert, founder of the sherlockian society "The Franco-Midland Hardware Company (1989-2004)".
Biography
Philip Weller (Born 1941 in Portsmouth) is a former Royal Air Force Squadron Leader, with degrees in Mathematics, History, Philosophy and War Studies.
He is the founder of the international Holmesian society, The Franco-Midland Hardware Company (1989-2004), and of The Arthur Conan Doyle Study Group. He is a member of dozens of other international Holmesian and Doylean associations, and he has lectured on these topics all over the world.
He has organized numerous International Holmesian Conventions, all over Europe and in Russia.
For more than a decade he has, although living in England, been an extremely active member of "Uno Studio in Holmes" (USIH), and he has written the Introduction to the Italian edition of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" ("La maledizione dei Baskerville"), and two specialist Italian monographs on Arthur Conan Doyle.
He, and his wife Jane, are very proud to be Honorary Citizens of Sesto Fiorentino in Tuscany.
Doylean Works
Books
- Introduction of The Winning Shot: A Textual Reproduction of the Original Bow Bells Publication (Sherlock Publications, 1995)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Groombridge Place (Conan Doyle/Crowborough Establishment, 1995)
- Afterword of An Appreciation of Sir John French (Rupert Books, 1999)
- Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War: A Consideration of Some Non-Military Perspective (Conan Doyle/Crowborough Establishment, 2000)
- In 2012, he wrote On and Off the Rails with Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle and A Honeymoon over the Bay of Naples in "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : Viaggio in Italia / Italian Journey" edited by Gianluca Salvatori, Enrico Solito and Roberto Vianello, in 2012 (Bobi Bazlen Edizion).
Articles
- A.C.D. and B-P (in ACD Journal, Vol. 4, 1993)
- The Bear Necessities: A Question of Literary Fidelity and "The Terror of Blue John Gap" (in The New Baker Street Pillar Box, No. 26 & 27, 1998)
- On and Off the Rails with Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle ( Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Viaggio in Italia / Italian Journey, Bobi Bazlen Edizioni, 2012)
- A Honeymoon over the Bay of Naples (in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Viaggio in Italia / Italian Journey, Bobi Bazlen Ed., 2012)
Sherlockian Works
- Introduction (in La maledizione dei Baskerville, Matioli 1885, 2017)
