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Conan Doyle was honoured by the University of Edinburgh, which bestowed upon him an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law (LLD). Fellow-recipients were William Watson Cheyne, Professor of Surgery at King's College Hospital, London, and John Hughlings Jackson, Neurologist. The ceremony took place on 7th April 1905, and the Laureation address was given by Sir Ludovic J. Grant Bart., Dean of the Faculty of Law.
(Critchley and Critchley, John Hughlings Jackson, Father of Neurology, 1998)