31 Facts About Archie Christie

Archie Christie was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie; they married in 1914 and divorced in 1928.

Shortly after the divorce, Archie Christie married Nancy Neele, and the couple lived quietly for the rest of their lives.

Archie Christie became a successful businessman and was invited to be on the board of directors of several major companies.

Archibald Archie Christie was born in 1889 in Peshawar in The British Raj, now Pakistan.

Archie Christie's father, called Archibald Christie, was in the Indian Civil Service.

Archie Christie's brother was in the Indian Medical Service, and she was staying with him when she met Archibald Christie, who was thirteen years older than she was.

Archie Christie was a boarder at Hillside Boys School in Godalming for some years.

Two years later, Peg Archie Christie married William Hemsley, a schoolteacher at Clifton College, Bristol, and Archie Christie moved there to complete his education.

Archie Christie then joined the 138th Battery Royal Field Artillery.

Archie Christie 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.

Archie Christie 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.

Archie Christie 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.

Archie Christie was introduced to me, asked for a couple of dances, and said that his friend Griffiths had told him to look out for me.

Archie Christie was progressively promoted during the war until he became colonel.

Archie Christie was mentioned in despatches five times; and, at the end of the war, he received a DSO and a CMG.

Archie Christie left the military and took a job in the Imperial and Foreign Corporation.

Archie Christie remained there until 1922 when he was offered a position by his father's former colleague Major Ernest Belcher as financial adviser in the British Empire Exhibition Tour.

Archie Christie started to play golf and was elected to the Sunningdale Golf Club.

Archie Christie spent many of his weekends there while Agatha worked on her novels in their London flat.

Archie Christie wanted to live in Sunningdale so, in 1924, they moved to a flat called Scotswood, where they lived for two years.

On 3 December 1926, Agatha left their home in Styles and when she did not return, Archie Christie reported her missing.

Archie Christie was asked to go to the hotel to identify his wife.

Archie Christie apparently did not recognise him until later when she was recovering at Abney Hall, her sister's house.

The 1979 dramatic film Agatha was based on this event with Agatha and Archie Christie portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Dalton.

Agatha went to live in a flat in London, and Archie Christie remained at Styles so that he could sell it.

In 1928, Archie Christie married Nancy Neele at St George's, Hanover Square, with just a few close friends present at the ceremony.

Archie Christie was born in 1899 to middle-class parents in Stockport, Cheshire.

Archie Christie was one of five sisters who played orchestral music, and they were described by one newspaper as showing "a proficiency in handling their instruments that enables them to perform with grace and ease the most exacting and high class music".

Archie Christie stayed in contact with Rosalind, his daughter from his first marriage.

Archie Christie became a successful business man and was a director on the boards of several financial and investment companies.

Nancy died in 1958 at the age of 58, and Archie Christie died four years later.