He 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. 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 1914, 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.

Third Girl by Agatha Christie