George Edalji
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George Ernest Thompson Edalji (March 1876 – June 17, 1953) was a solicitor from the West Midlands who gained notability for being defended in a case of horse slashing by the author Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edalji was the eldest of three children of Shapurji Edalji and Charlotte Stoneham. His father was of Indian descent (a Parsi of Bombay), and his mother Scottish. Edalji became a solicitor in Birmingham, England, during the early 1900s. He proved to be an outstanding student during law school, and won prizes from the Law Society. He wrote the book Railway Law for the "Man in the train", which was "intended as a guide for the Travelling Public".
He was wrongly convicted of the 'Great Wyrley Outrages', but cleared as the result of an investigation by Arthur Conan Doyle. Julian Barnes' 2005 novel Arthur & George (ISBN 0-224-07703-1) recounts the entire episode in great detail, as does the non-fiction work Conan Doyle and the Parson's Son: The George Edalji Case (ISBN 1843862417).
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- Conan Doyle and The Parson's Son:The George Edalji Case
- Birmingham City Council biography
- Conan Doyle and The George Edalji Case
- About the novel by Julian Barnes «Arthur & George»
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