SIR A CONAN DOYLE'S WEDDING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 4

SIR A CONAN DOYLE'S WEDDING.

BRIDEGROOM'S WELL-KEPT I SECRET. c b London, September 10. s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was quietly " married yesterday afternoon at &|t. " .Margaret's Church, Westminster, to Miss " Jean Jseckie, the daughter of Mr and c .Mrs J. !!. Leckie, of Glebe House, Black- v heath. , 11 The scene of the wedding was a well- c > kepi secret, for not more tliau half-a- " dozen of the well-known novelist's ad- I] mirers knew when and where the cere- " mony was to be. P The chancel of St. Margaret's was adorned with white flowers and palins, ' and it surpliced choir met the wedding ® party. The church itself was almost ' empty." ' (1 The Rev. Cyril Angell, of Victoria l'ark, the brother-in-law of the bridegroom, olliciatcd, and the minister's five- «' year-old son, .Master Brailsford Angell, in a Blue satin Court suit, attended the s ' bride as page of honor. Captain Hay Doyle, R.A., the brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man. The bride wore a 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—Hiss Lily I.odcr-Symonds and .Miss Leslie Rose—her friends. They u carried hower bouquets, and wore jewelled brooches, the gift of Sir Arthur. „ As the bridal procession formed the ' choir sang "Praise the Lord! Ye hcav- 111 ens adore him," and passed up the nave °.' to the altar steps, which were gay with , chrysanthemums and Scotch heather—emblematic of good lack. j l ' 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 CC bis bride drove up somewhat sooner 01 than had lieen arranged, and the bridegroom himself acted as trainbearer to , his wife on the red-carpeted stairs leading from Whitehall Court. !" One of the very first to congratulate , Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle was Mr M George F.dalji, to prove whose innocense " of the police charges against him atL Great Wvrley the novelist had done so , much. As a mark of his appreciation of Sir i 1 Artlmr Conan Doyle's efforts Mr Edalji presented the newly-married pair with J, copies of "Shakespeare" and "Tcnnyson." >l Many authors attended the reception, among them being Mr .1. M. Barrio, Mt Jerome K. Jerome, Mr Max Pemherton, j l ' Mr Coulson Kernahan, and Sir Gilbert " Parker. J' Afore than a hundred wedding presonts were received. " Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle, after the 11 reception, left for the south coast en route for Paris and Dresden, where the honeymoon will be sperrt. o