Sir A. Conan Doyle's Wedding
Sir A. Conan Doyle's Wedding is an article published in the Daily Express on 19 september 1907.
In the same issue, the newspaper published a photo of the wedding 2 pages after this article.
Sir A. Conan Doyle's Wedding
BRIDEGROOM'S WELL-KEPT SECRET.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was quietly married yesterday afternoon at St, Margaret's Church, Westminster, to Miss Jean Leckie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Leckie, of Glebe House, Blackheath.
The scene of the wedding was a well-kept secret, for not more than half a dozen of the well-known novelist's admirers knew when and where the ceremony was to be.
The chancel of St. Margaret's was adorned with white flowers and palms, and a surpliced choir met the wedding party. The church itself was almost empty.
The Rev. Cyril Angell, of Victoria Park, the brother-in-law of the bridegroom, officiated, and the minister's five-year-old son, Master Brailsford Angell [1], in a blue satin Court suit, attended the bride as page of honour. Captain Hay Doyle, R.A., the brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man.
The bride wore robe of Spanish lace and silver tissue, with a full train, and she was escorted up the aisle on the arm of her father, attended by two bridesmaids — Miss Lily Loder-Symonds and Miss Leslie Rose — her friends. They carried shower bouquets, and were jewelled brooches, the gift of Sir Arthur.
HEATHER FOR LUCK.
As the bridal procession formed the choir sang "Praise the Lord! Ye Heavens, adore Him," and passed up the nave to the altar steps, which were gay with chrysanthemums and Scotch heather — emblematic of good luck.
The service, which was brief, was fully choral, the organist playing the wedding march from "Lohengrin" and, as Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle left the church, Mendelssohn's "Wedding March."
A reception, to which some 300 guests were invited was afterwards held at the Hotel Metropole. Sir Arthur and his bride drove up somewhat sooner than had been arranged, and the bridegroom himself acted as trainbearer to his wife on the red-carpeted stairs lending from Whitehall Court.
One of the very first to congratulate Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle was Mr. George Edalji, to prove whose innocence of the police charges brought against him at Great Wyrley the novelist has done so much.
As a mark of his appreciation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's efforts Mr. Edalji presented the newly-married pair with copies of "Shakespeare" and "Tennyson."
Many authors attended the reception, among them being Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, Mr. Max Pemberton, Mr. Coulson Kernahan, and Sir Gilbert Parker.
More than a hundred wedding presents were received.
Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle, after the reception, left for the south coast en route for Paris and Dresden, where the honeymoon will be spent.
A photograph showing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his bride leaving the church appears on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Married|Page 7]].
- ↑ The correct spelling was: Branford Bryan Angell.
