Jean Conan Doyle, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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RAF officer; daughter/heir to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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About Jean Conan Doyle
- Air Commandant Lena Annette Jean, Lady Bromet, DBE, AE, ADC (21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997), best known by her maiden name Dame Jean Conan Doyle, was a British military officer in the Women's Royal Air Force.The second daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she was a spirited child who was described as a tomboy by Harry Houdini.
- Her childhood nickname was "Billy", and letters to her father would be signed "Your loving son." On her tenth birthday, however, she announced that she had decided to be a girl after all.
- She then went to her Aunt Ida's school, Granville House in Eastbourne, where she took after her mother in developing a love of nature.
- As a schoolgirl she was a classmate and friend of Joan Boniface Winnifrith, who would become film and television actress Anna Lee.
- Winnifrith was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's god-daughter.
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