Family life

Family life

In 1885 Doyle married Louisa Hawkins...The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie... He had maintained a platonic relationship with Jean... 

Doyle fathered five children. He had two with his first wife: Mary Louise and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley. He had an additional three with his second wife. All of Doyle's five children died without issue.

In 1885 Doyle married Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Hawkins. She was the youngest daughter of J. Hawkins, of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, and the sister of one of Doyle's patients. Louisa suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. He had maintained a platonic relationship with Jean while his first wife was still alive, out of loyalty to her. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940.

Doyle fathered five children. He had two with his first wife: Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976) and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). He had an additional three with his second wife: Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani; Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910 – 3 June 1970); and Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997). All of Doyle's five children died without issue, leaving him with no grandchildren or direct descendants.