In April of that year, Agatha's mother, Clarissa Miller, died, and, for several months, she moved back to her childhood home in Ashfield to sort and pack her mother's belongings. Īt the beginning of 1926, Christie and Agatha jointly bought a large house in Sunningdale they called "Styles". It was a very successful part of the Exhibition as, in the following year, the Treasure Island feature was exported to the United States, where it was lauded as "the greatest amusement feature at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". It was a substantial contribution to the event as The Times outlined its features in-depth and gave the names of the committee. The committee on which both Agatha and Nancy sat designed and organised the Children's Paradise section of the Wembley Exhibition which contained Treasure Island as its centrepiece. Another friend of Belcher's, Nancy Neele, was also invited to be a member of the Committee Neele would later become Christie's mistress and second wife. Īt the beginning of 1925, Agatha was invited to participate in a committee to design and organise a children's section of the 1925 British Empire Exhibition in Wembley. Christie wanted to live in Sunningdale so, in 1924, they moved to a flat called Scotswood, where they lived for two years. He spent many of his weekends there while Agatha worked on her novels in their London flat. He started to play golf and was elected to the Sunningdale Golf Club.
Īfter they returned from the tour, Christie found a job in the city and later moved to Austral Development, which established him in the world of finance. During that time, Christie and Agatha visited many places around the world and came to know Major Ernest Belcher, who led the Tour and subsequently organised many parts of the Wembley Exhibition. The Tour departed in January 1922 and returned ten months later. The purpose of the Tour was to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition, which was to be held at Wembley in 19. He remained there until 1922 when he was offered a position by Major Ernest Belcher as financial adviser in the British Empire Exhibition Tour. Ĭhristie left the military and took a job in the Imperial and Foreign Corporation. We got on together very well he danced splendidly and I danced again several more times with him. He was introduced to me, asked for a couple of dances, and said that his friend Griffiths had told him to look out for me. He was a tall, fair young man, with crisp curly hair, a rather interesting nose, turned up not down, and a great air of careless confidence about him. A description of her meeting with Christie is given by Agatha in her autobiography:Ĭhristie came my way quite soon in the dance.
He met Agatha Miller when he was invited to a ball on 12 October 1912 by Lady Clifford at her grand home Ugbrooke House in Chudleigh. He wanted to be a pilot so he paid for private lessons in the Bristol Flying School at Brooklands and gained his aviators' certificate on 12 July 1912. He then joined the 138th Battery Royal Field Artillery. Īfter he left school, he passed the entrance exam to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and, in 1909, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Two years later, Peg Christie married William Hemsley, a schoolteacher at Clifton College, Bristol, and Christie moved there to complete his education. In 1901, when Christie was eleven, his father died. He was a boarder at Hillside Boys School in Godalming for some years. The couple had two sons, Archie and Campbell.Ĭhristie was sent to England to be educated. In 1888, at the age of 26, she married him. Her brother was in the Indian Medical Service, and she was staying with him when she met Archibald Christie (senior), who was thirteen years older than she was. Her father was Dr Samuel Coates (died 1879). Peg was born in Portumna, Galway, Ireland, in 1862. His mother was Ellen Ruth "Peg" Coates, who is often mentioned in her daughter-in-law (Agatha)'s autobiography. It is said that he was a judge however, his death notice in The Law Times journal described him as a barrister. His father, also called Archibald Christie, was in the Indian Civil Service. Archie Christie, 1909, after graduating from the Royal Military AcademyĪrchibald Christie was born in 1889 in Peshawar in The British Raj, now Modern Day Pakistan.
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