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Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356. [1] It was written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in serial form during 1905–06 where it was illustrated by Joseph Clement Coll. [2] It was illustrated by The Kinneys and Arthur Twidle in its book ...
A statue of Sir Nigel Gresley made of bronze stands near the booking office of London King's Cross railway station. It was commissioned by the Gresley Society in memory of Sir Nigel Gresley , a locomotive designer who worked in offices at the station and whose designs included Mallard , which set the unbroken steam locomotive speed record in 1938.
Nigel Rodgers (born 1953) is a British writer, environmentalist and critic. Rodgers has a degree in history and history of art from Cambridge University . [ 1 ] He is the founder of Pipedown , the Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music, [ 2 ] and is a member of the Educational Writers' Group of the Society of Authors .
Nigel "Nidge" Delaney, character played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in RTÉ crime drama TV series Love/Hate; Nigel Gearsley, a British race car appearing in Cars 2; Sir Nigel Irvine, SIS chief in Frederick Forsyth's spy novel The Fourth Protocol; Nigel, a sadistic sulphur-crested cockatoo who is the main antagonist in the Rio franchise
Edward makes appearances in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novels The White Company and Sir Nigel. Edward features in two of Jean Plaidy’s novels: The Vow on the Heron (1980), about Edward III, and The Passage to Pontefract (1981), about Richard II. Edward is the protagonist of The English Paragon, by Marjorie Bowen. [3]
The White Company is a historical adventure novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. [1] The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward the Black Prince, to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile.
In 1924 he mounted an exhibition of his father's works at the Brook Galleries in London, where they were praised by George Bernard Shaw. [6] The Doyle Diary, containing a facsimile of works from a sketchbook he created from March to July 1889 while at Montrose, [9] was published in 1978. This brought Doyle's work to wider attention and ...
The movie was from Sir Nigel Films, a company set up by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with the aim of exploiting Doyle's literary works in film and television. Henry Lester, managing director of Sir Nigel said "We felt that the royalties we were receiving from various media outlets bore little relation to profits.