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About James William Edmund Doyle
James William Edmund Doyle (22 October 1822 – 3 December 1892) was an antiquary and illustrator. He died at 38 Dorset Square.
He was an uncle of the famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the "Sherlock Holmes" stories.
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From Wikipedia contributors. "James William Edmund Doyle." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
He was born in London on 22 October 1822, was the eldest son of John Doyle. Richard Doyle and Henry Edward Doyle were younger brothers. He was the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle. On 12 February 1874, he married Jane Henrietta Hawkins at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Marylebone Road, London.
The great undertaking of Doyle's life, however, was his 'Official Baronage of England,' which included every rank of nobility except barons. The epithet 'official' in the title means not that Doyle's 'Baronage' was published 'by authority,' but that it gave an exhaustive list of the offices held by the peers of whom it treated. This compilation was at first designed especially to cover the period between the Norman Conquest and the Revolution of 1688, but it was afterwards brought down to 1885. It gave particulars, as complete as possible, of the succession, titles, offices, heraldic bearings, and personal appearance of each peer. This work was published in three quarto volumes in 1886, a large-paper edition, limited to two hundred copies, appearing somewhat earlier in 1885. It is a painstaking but unequal work. For the earlier portion, especially the Norman and Angevin period, Doyle relied too much on secondary authorities, and was not sufficiently critical. Greatly to his disappointment the book was not a financial success, and inflicted a heavy loss on the publishers. In 1886 he wrote the explanatory text for Richard Doyle's coloured cartoons, entitled 'Scenes from English History.'
Historical Compiler:
- - "A Chronicle of England", 1864
- - "The Official Baronage of England", 1885
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James William Edmund Doyle's Timeline
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October 22, 1822
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Marylebone, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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| 1892 |
December 3, 1892
Age 70
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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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December 3, 1892
Age 70
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St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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