Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:Height
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Arthur Conan Doyle height was 6,2 feet.
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. »
It was mentioned by journalists and estimated from photos.
Arthur Conan Doyle often mentioned characters of his size in fictions. Especially Sherlock Holmes. See list below.
In the press
1904
- Inches and Eminence (august 1904, The Strand Magazine)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is six feet two in the chart below:
The Strand Magazine (august 1904, p. 214). Conan Doyle is at 6,2 feet.
1905
- Arthur Conan Doyle (26 november 1905, New-York Tribune)
- « He is over six feet in height, stalwart, muscular, seeing all things in a big, large-hearted way. »
1914
- Conan Doyle Here, Expects Irish War (28 may 1914, The New-York Times)
- « Sir Arthur is more than 6 feet tall and broad shouldered. »
- « Sir Arthur is a huge man, well over six feet, with a powerful frame. »
1922
- Conan Doyle Tells of Spiritualism, the Great Religion of the Future (11 april 1922, The Evening World)
- « 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. »
- You Start in There Where You Leave Off Here (september 1922, The American Magazine)
- « He is somewhat under six feet and must weigh well on toward two hundred pounds — all of it solid muscle and bone. »
In biographies
1943
- Conan Doyle: His Life and Art, by Hesketh Pearson (1943, Methuen & Co.)
- « At the age of twenty-one he was over six feet in height, brown-haired, gray-eyed, broad, and forty-three round the chest. »
6 feet in fictions
- Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1887)
- « In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. »
- Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein in A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
- « He could hardly have been less than six feet six inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. »
- Mr. Barker's father in The Tragedians (1894)
- « My father was six feet two... »
- Beaumont in How the King Held the Brigadier (1895)
- « 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... »
- Frank Crosse in A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899)
- « He was a fine man, six feet two inches from crown to sole. »
- Sir John Bollamore in The Story of the Japanned Box (1899)
- « For he was a very formidable person. Imagine a man six feet three inches in height, majestically built, with a high-nosed, aristocratic face... »
- Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Three Students (1904)
- « I am six feet high, and I could do it with an effort. »
- Guy Falconbridge in The Lord of Falconbridge (1909)
- « ... considering his six feet in height, his thirteen stone solid muscle... »
- Lord John Roxton in The Lost World (1912)
- « 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. »
