"not been done in the preceding novel, ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. According to Mary, in December 1878, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one"
"birth and she had no other relatives in England, although she was educated there (in accordance with the received wisdom of the time about children in the colony of India) until the age of seventeen. Shortly afterwards her father disappeared and she found work as a governess. Watson and Mary marry in 1889. Mary Morstan is mentioned in passing in ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"" and ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", but by the time of ""The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"" (after Holmes's return) Mary Morstan has died and Watson has returned to his former lodgings in Baker Street."
"James Morland, whom Darcy has installed in a local parish. The latter denouement was hinted at by Austen herself in her letters, where she mentions that she can imagine Kitty married to a Derbyshire clergyman. Almost as an afterthought, Brinton also pairs up Tom Bertram and Isabella Thorpe, completing a sequence in which all of Brinton's characters destined for matrimony become engaged to someone from a different Jane Austen novel. Very little is known about Sybil Grace Brinton. She was born in 1874 at Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire and was subject to ill health throughout her life. She got married in"
"is angered that Holmes is not given any credit for it by the press. When Holmes refuses to record and publish his account of the adventure, Watson endeavours to do so himself. In time, Holmes and Watson become close friends. In ""The Sign of the Four"", John Watson becomes engaged to Mary Morstan, a governess. In ""The Adventure of the Empty House"", a reference by Watson to ""my own sad bereavement"" implies that Morstan has died by the time Holmes returns after faking his death; that fact is confirmed when Watson moves back to Baker Street to share lodgings with"
"miscommunication led Tonga to kill Bartholomew as well. Mary Morstan is left without the bulk of the Agra treasure, although she will apparently receive the rest of the chaplet. John Watson falls in love with Mary, and it is revealed at the end that he proposed to her and she has accepted. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph M. Stoddart, managing editor of an American publication ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"", at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889. Stoddart wanted to produce an English version of ""Lippincott’s"""
"Hieronim Morsztyn Hieronim Morsztyn (1581–1623) was a Polish poet. He is known as one of the earliest poets of the Polish baroque and sarmatism. His most popular poem is ""Światowa Rozkosz"" (Worldly Pleasure). Little is known about his life. Born in an Arian family to Florian Morsztyn and Zuzanna Łaska he was orphaned early and brought up by his uncle Samuel Łaski, the royal secretary. He attended a Jesuit college in Braniewo. During his later life he became associated with the magnates' courts in Lublin and Vilna. Morsztyn's major works are ""Światowa Rozkosz"" (Worldly Pleasure or Worldly Bliss, from 1606),"
"was a work praised at the time. Poyntz married, in February 1732–3, Anna Maria Mordaunt, daughter of the Hon. Lewis Mordaunt, brigadier-general, and maid of honour to Queen Caroline of Ansbach. She had been a great beauty, addressed by Samuel Croxall in his poem ""The Fair Circassian"". They had two sons—William of Midgham (d. 1809), and Charles, prebendary of Durham—and two daughters, Margaret Georgina and Louisa. Louisa died unmarried, but Margaret Georgina became the wife, at Althorp, on 27 December 1755 (the day after he came of age), of the future John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer. Anna Poyntz was in"
"Her cause of death is never mentioned. Mary Morstan has been portrayed on film and television by several actresses. In many cases, her role is expanded to be critical in new stories, and she is often given a career of her own. Mary Watson appears as a detective herself in two 2010 novels by Molly Carr, ""The Sign of Fear"" and ""A Study in Crimson"". Langdale Pike is a celebrated gossipmonger whose columns are published in numerous magazines and newspapers (referred to as the ""garbage papers"" by Watson). He's introduced in ""The Adventure of the Three Gables"" in which he"
"are available. Mary Frances Dowdall Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall (née Borthwick, 1876–1939) was a London-born English writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her four novels are ""astutely critical"" on the subject of marriage. Mary Frances was the youngest of the five children of Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th Lord Borthwick (1813–1885) and his wife Harriet Alice (née Day, from Rochester, Kent, died 1917). She was privately educated. The family lived in Mayfair as her father worked as a stockbroker, but since 1870 they had also owned property in Scotland: Ravenstone Castle at Glasserton, Wigtownshire, now Dumfries and Galloway. In 1897 Mary Frances married"
"a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar. Holmes, Watson, and Mary meet Thaddeus Sholto, the son of the late Major Sholto and the anonymous sender of the pearls. Thaddeus confirms the Major ""had"" seen Mary's father the night he died; they had arranged a meeting to divide a priceless treasure Sholto had brought home from India. While quarrelling over the treasure, Captain Morstan—long in weak health—suffered a heart attack. Not wanting to bring attention to the object of the quarrel—and also worried that circumstances"
"Marie Corelli Marie Corelli (; 1 May 185521 April 1924) was an English novelist and mystic. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Sales of Corelli's novels exceeded the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as ""the favourite of the common multitude"". Mary Mackay was born in London to Elizabeth Mills, a servant of the Scottish poet and songwriter Dr Charles Mackay, her biological father. In 1866, eleven-year-old Mary was sent"
"Brandenburg) where he became a Ducal Councillor of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. With the help of Radziwill he leased Stara Rudówka (Rudowken) In 1669 Morsztyn became an administrator of the estates owned by the duchess Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł. He died in Königsberg in 1689, and was buried in Stara Rudówka the following year. Zbigniew Morsztyn Zbigniew Morsztyn (Morstin, Morstyn) (ca. 1628 – December 13, 1689) was a Polish poet. Morsztyn was born in Kraków. For nine years (1648-1657) he was in the army, and fought against the Swedes and Russians during the Northern Wars. His most celebrated work was"
"Jan Andrzej Morsztyn Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–93) was a Polish poet, member of the landed nobility, and official in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was ""starosta"" of Zawichost, Tymbark and Kowal. He was also pantler of Sandomierz (1647–58), Royal Secretary (from 1656), a secular referendary (1658–68), and Deputy Crown Treasurer from 1668. Apart from his career at the Polish court, Morsztyn is famous as a leading poet of the Polish Baroque and a prominent representative of Marinist style in Polish literature. Over his lifetime he accumulated considerable wealth. In 1683 he was accused of treason and was forced to emigrate to"
"lieutenant. The ""Dorothea"" was accompanied by HMS ""Trent"", commanded by John Franklin. As first lieutenant, Morrell kept a detailed log book which provided meteorological observations and navigational notes. The expedition eventually failed to penetrate thick pack ice. The expedition returned to England without having achieved its goal. It would be nearly 40 years before Arctic exploration would be recognized, and in 1856 the Arctic Medal was struck and issued retroactively for various polar voyages starting with 1818, the year of Buchan's expedition. In 1820, Morrell married Elizabeth Reid, daughter of the ""first pay clerk of wages"" at Devonport, William Reid."
"- like in his ""Konfederacji 1614 nagrobek"" (Tombstone for the 1614 confederation). Hieronim Morsztyn Hieronim Morsztyn (1581–1623) was a Polish poet. He is known as one of the earliest poets of the Polish baroque and sarmatism. His most popular poem is ""Światowa Rozkosz"" (Worldly Pleasure). Little is known about his life. Born in an Arian family to Florian Morsztyn and Zuzanna Łaska he was orphaned early and brought up by his uncle Samuel Łaski, the royal secretary. He attended a Jesuit college in Braniewo. During his later life he became associated with the magnates' courts in Lublin and Vilna. Morsztyn's"
"totally forgotten, even in England."" Marie Corelli Marie Corelli (; 1 May 185521 April 1924) was an English novelist and mystic. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Sales of Corelli's novels exceeded the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as ""the favourite of the common multitude"". Mary Mackay was born in London to Elizabeth Mills, a servant of the Scottish poet and songwriter Dr Charles Mackay, her biological father. In"
"the American poet and novelist Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton. In 1809, at age 57, he married 35-year-old Anne (or Ann) Cary (""Nancy"") Randolph (1774–1837), who was the daughter of Ann Cary and Thomas Mann Randolph Sr., and the sister of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.. Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. was the husband of Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph. Nancy lived near Farmville, Virginia, with her sister Judith and Judith's husband Richard Randolph on a plantation called ""Bizarre"". In April 1793, Richard Randolph and Nancy were accused of murdering a newborn baby which was said to be Nancy's; presumably she had"
"Peggy Moreland Peggy Morse, née Bozeman (born in Texas, United States) well known as Peggy Moreland is a ""USA TODAY"" and Waldenbooks bestselling American writer of over 40 romance novels since 1989. She also signed a novel with her married name Peggy Morse. Peggy Bozeman was born Taurus in Texas, United States. She grew up with her two sisters in a farm. Her father died when she was in high school, leaving her mother to raise her three daughters alone. Peggy received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Stephen F. Austin State University, with a minor in English. She"
"Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery (21 May 1746 – 30 May 1840) was an Anglo-Irish literary hostess. Born Mary Monckton, she was a daughter of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway by his second wife, Jane Westenra of Rathleagh, Queen's County, Ireland. From her early years, she took a keen interest in literature, and through her influence, her mother's house in London became a favourite meeting place of literary celebrities; Dr Johnson was a frequent guest. Boswell places Mary Monckton among the bluestocking clubs, and writes: The playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was"
"in 1857. In 1860 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Braidwood; he held the seat until his death in Sydney in 1864. His son Abram briefly represented New England and Macleay in 1858. Merion Moriarty Merion Marshall Moriarty (1794 – 10 January 1864) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in County Cork to Vice-Admiral Sylverius Moriarty and Lydia Hinton. He joined the Royal Navy in 1807, travelling to Copenhagen, the Mediterranean and the West Indies. In 1814 he was promoted lieutenant, and he retired in 1815. On 15 October 1816 he married Anne"
"Zbigniew Morsztyn Zbigniew Morsztyn (Morstin, Morstyn) (ca. 1628 – December 13, 1689) was a Polish poet. Morsztyn was born in Kraków. For nine years (1648-1657) he was in the army, and fought against the Swedes and Russians during the Northern Wars. His most celebrated work was religious poetry, contrasting with the style of his cousin, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn. Morsztyn was a member of a Christian sect called the Polish Brethren, which existed from 1562 to 1658. Due to religious persecution in Poland Morsztyn fled in 1662 to the Duchy of Prussia (since 1618 in personal union with the Margraviate of"
"wedding and stole some livestock. Significantly, they were never divorced. Morant biographer Nick Bleszynski suggests that Dwyer played a more important role in Morant's life than has been previously thought, and that it was she who convinced him to change his name from Edwin Murrant to Harry Harbord Morant. After parting ways with Morant, Dwyer moved to New South Wales. She said that she became engaged to Philip Gipps but he died before they could marry, though no records support this. She then met John (Jack) Bates—like Morant, a bushman and drover—and they married on 17 February 1885. Their only"
"building through a window, leaving Moriarty's body with a Sherlock mask to mislead John and other onlookers, John himself being hypnotised by Derren Brown to give the time for this to be set up (see ""The Reichenbach Fall""§Speculation and response to the cliffhanger). This version of events is later shown to be a conspiracy theory invented by Philip Anderson, who feels responsible for Sherlock's death. John now has a girlfriend, Mary Morstan (Amanda Abbington), to whom he intends to propose in a restaurant. At this point, Sherlock, disguised as a French waiter, approaches the couple, but is not immediately recognised"
"in 1244. Donnchadh, Earl of Mar Donnchadh of Mar (Anglicized as Duncan) is the fifth known Mormaer of Mar or Earl of Mar, 1203–1244. Donnchadh was the son of Morggán and Agnes. Donnchadh benefited from the introduction of feudal primogeniture as a custom, as it enabled him and his kin to exclude the descendants of Gille Críst, whose contemporary leader was Thomas de Lundin, from the succession. Perhaps in gratitude, he named his oldest son William after King William I, the probable source of the innovation in Mar's inheritance custom. He married Orabillis of Nessius, by whom he fathered William,"
"he coauthored a proposal for the reform of the Sejm. Jan Andrzej Morsztyn Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–93) was a Polish poet, member of the landed nobility, and official in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was ""starosta"" of Zawichost, Tymbark and Kowal. He was also pantler of Sandomierz (1647–58), Royal Secretary (from 1656), a secular referendary (1658–68), and Deputy Crown Treasurer from 1668. Apart from his career at the Polish court, Morsztyn is famous as a leading poet of the Polish Baroque and a prominent representative of Marinist style in Polish literature. Over his lifetime he accumulated considerable wealth. In 1683 he"
"by books, paintings, sculpture and in the company of writers such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Matthew Prior as well as aristocrats and politicians. As a child, she collected pets and natural history objects (especially seashells) and was encouraged by her father and her paternal grandfather, the 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, to do so. At 19, on 11 July 1734, in Oxford Chapel, Marylebone, she married the 2nd Duke of Portland, her 'Sweet Will', and they later had six children (all born at Welbeck Abbey): In 1738–1756 the scholar Elizabeth Elstob was their tutor. By the November"
"two silver championship buckles, one for Champion Barrel Racer, and a second for All-Around Cowgirl. Peggy Moreland Peggy Morse, née Bozeman (born in Texas, United States) well known as Peggy Moreland is a ""USA TODAY"" and Waldenbooks bestselling American writer of over 40 romance novels since 1989. She also signed a novel with her married name Peggy Morse. Peggy Bozeman was born Taurus in Texas, United States. She grew up with her two sisters in a farm. Her father died when she was in high school, leaving her mother to raise her three daughters alone. Peggy received a Bachelor of"
"Mary Howard (novelist) Mary Mussi, née ""Edgar"" (born 27 December 1907 in London, England - died 2 March 1991), was a British writer of over 50 romance novels as Mary Howard, who also wrote over 10 gothic romance as Josephine Edgar. She is one of the two novelists to win three times the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Born Mary Edgar on 27 December 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, daughter of Jenny (Howard) and George Edgar, an author. She was educated privately. On 6 March 1934, she married Rudolph F. Mussi, they had"
"Mordaunt, Arthur and Godfrey; and four girls. Ellen, Mabel, Lucy and Josephine. Ellen married Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855–1935), they produced one daughter named Elsie and one son named Thurstan. In 1895, Mabel married Alan de Lancey Curwen of Workington Hall, they had three children. In 1896, Lucy married Edward Heathcote Thruston of Pennal Tower, Mochgullith, North Wales In 1909 Josephine married Frederick William Chance, the member of Parliament for the city of Carlisle. Mary's sister Blanche married Alfred Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale (1831–1916). Blanche was the mother of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India. Lawson succeeded to the"
"that he might master the native tongue. So much of a recluse had he become, through fear of being ordered away by the authorities, that his health greatly suffered, and he could only walk across his narrow room with difficulty. But he toiled on. Morrison strove to establish relations between himself and the people. He attempted to teach three Chinese boys who lived on the streets in an attempt to help both them and his own language skills. However, they treated him maliciously and he was forced to let them go. In 1809, he met 17-year-old Mary Morton and married"
"Mary Morison Mary Morison or Mary Morrison (1771 – 29 June 1791), may have been the """"lovely Mary Morison"""", whom the poet Robert Burns admired as a girl of sixteen. She was the daughter of Adjutant John Morison of Mauchline. Her tombstone carries the inscription - """"In memory of Adjutant John Morison, etc., etc.; also his daughter - the poet's bonnie Mary Morison - who died 29th June, 1791, aged 20; and his second spouse etc."""". Morison died young, at the age of 20, being a victim of consumption in 1791. She is buried in Mauchline churchyard. Hunter records that"
"H. P. Belmont, to give him up to marry the Duke."" In 1902, Rutherfurd married Alice Morton (1879–1917), the fourth daughter of former US Vice President Levi Parsons Morton and Anna Livingston Reade Street. Her sister Helen, was married to Paul Louis Marie Archambaud, Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord (1867-1952), a son of the Charles Guillaume Frédéric, Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Sagan, and her oldest sister, Edith, was married to William Corcoran Eustis (1862–1921). Alice died fifteen years later in 1917, leaving behind five sons and a daughter: In 1913, upon the advice of Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Lucy Mercer was hired"
"before they left, and had no further connection with Tasmania. Tom Arnold was ratified as chair of English literature at the contemplated Catholic university, Dublin, after some delay. Mary spent much of her time with her grandmother. She was educated at various boarding schools (from ages 11 to 15, in Shifnal, Shropshire) and at 16 returned to live with her parents at Oxford, where her father had a lecturership in history. Her schooldays formed the basis for one of her later novels, ""Marcella"" (1894). On 6 April 1872, not yet 21 years old, Mary married Humphry Ward, a fellow and"