Arthur Conan Doyle
22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer and physician, best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Beyond the Holmes stories he wrote historical novels, science fiction including The Lost World, and in later life became a prominent advocate of spiritualism.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, to an Irish Catholic family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDoyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 to 1881, where his teacher Joseph Bell became a model for Sherlock Holmes.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIn 1882 Doyle set up an independent medical practice in Southsea, writing fiction while waiting for patients.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDoyle married Louisa Hawkins in 1885; the couple had two children before her death from tuberculosis in 1906.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBeginning with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in July 1891, Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand Magazine made both author and detective internationally famous.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Hound of the Baskervilles, often considered the finest Holmes novel, was serialized in The Strand from 1901 to 1902.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDoyle was knighted in 1902, largely for his pamphlet defending British conduct in the Boer War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA year after Louisa's death, Doyle married Jean Leckie in 1907; they had three children together.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDoyle died of a heart attack at his home, Windlesham Manor, in Crowborough at age 71.
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