Sherlock Holmes

28th May 1894 - 1902 - Sherlock Holmes was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow for once week.

30th March 1894 - The second son of the Earl of Maynooth who was murdered in the spring of 1894 ‘under the most unusual and inexplicable circumstances’ in ‘The Empty House’. Adair was described as an easygoing aristocrat who had no enemies and no particular vices save that he ‘was fond of cards, playing continually, but never for such stakes as would hurt him.’ His card playing was the cause of his death as he caught a fellow club member cheating and was murdered by that dangerous person to prevent the cheat’s embarrassment. The inquest, however, could uncover no motive for his brutal killing, his head ‘horribly mutilated by an expanded revolver bullet.’ The solution of his murder was tied to the triumphant return of Holmes in 1894.
He was shot through the head in his locked room at 427, Park Lane, on March 30, with a soft-nosed revolver bullet, fired by a specially adapted airgun.

5th April 1894 - setting for The Adventure of the Empty House

20th August 1894 - setting for The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

May 1894 - Watson sells up his Paddington practice and returns to Baker Street

24th October 1894 - The Sign of the ‘400’: Being a Continuation of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle. This obscure lampoon was first published in Puck. Written by R.K. Munkittrick.

15 November 1894 - setting for The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez

1894 - A Few Adventures of Mrs Herlock Shomes. A series of parodies by KA appeared in The Student: a Journal for University Extension Students. While Mrs Shomes was sorting out The Identity of Miss Angelica Vespers, Chubbock Homes was making his debut in Comic Cuts, a halfpenny comic paper published by Harmsworth. A few months later Chubbock transferred his allegiance to another halfpenny comic, The Funny Wonder, where he eventually achieved the distinction of becoming the comic's cover character.

1894 - Sherlaw Kombs, an parody is printed The Idler, created by Robert Barr

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

July 1894 - The Lord of Chateau Noir is published in the Strand Magazine

1894 - Mr Leslie Ward, likewise well known as 'Spy,' of Vanity Fair fame, is the eldest son of Edward Matthew Ward, R.A. Having been educated at Eton, where he gave early evidence of his artistic abilities by his caricatures of school-fellows, he was sent to Mr Sidney Smirke, R.A. to study architecture, but afterwards decided to become an artist, and began as a student of the Royal Academy. Leslie Ward has done much good work. At sixteen he had a bust in the Academy. He has painted full-length and life-sized portraits of many notable men and women, and drew portraits of Disraeli, Bulwer Lytton, Mr. Gladstone, Sir John Millais, Sir Frederick Leighton, and many others in the Graphic. Mr Ward has since exhibited in the Academy as an able painter in oil and water colours, and as an accomplished artist in black and white.

November 1894 - The Medal of Brigadier Gerard is published in the Strand Magazine

November 1894 - The Star of The 'Grasmere' is published in the Strand Magazine, written by E.W. Hornung, and writer of the Raffles stories. The illustrator for ‘Raffles’ was Cyrus Cuneo who was Conan Doyle’s favourite illustrator, although, he illustrated many of Doyle’s other works, he never illustrated a Holmes story.

1894 - The Round the Red Lamp collection of short stories is published

December 1894 - An Alpine Pass on 'Ski' is published in the Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle is credited with introducing Nowegian skis to Switzerland.

1894 - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are published.

1894 - The Parasite is published

1894 - Conan Doyle's lecture tour of America is a great success.

1894 - Waterloo is performed in London