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  1. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer.

  2. Jul 19, 2024 · Arthur Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction.. Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire ...

  3. Apr 3, 2014 · (1859-1930) Who Was Arthur Conan Doyle? In 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, A Study in Scarlet introduced the character of Detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle would go on to write 60 stories about ...

  4. Arthur Conan Doyle came from a family justly noted for their accomplishments in the visual arts, including his grandfather John Doyle the political caricaturist, his father Charles Altamont Doyle, an illustrator and designer, and his uncles James and Richard Doyle.

  5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930), M.D., Kt, KStJ, D.L., LL.D., Writer, Sportsman, Artist, Poet, Politician, Business man, Justicer, Inventor ...

  6. Biography Childhood. Birth, Family. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 may 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, Mary Josephine Foley, was Irish and descendant of the famous Percy family of Northumberland, in the line of Plantagenet.His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was a not very ambitious officer with some artistic talent .When he lost his job, he sank into alcoholism and ...

  7. Arthur Conan Doyle's humble beginnings did not predict his future success. Born on May 22, 1859, to a middle-class, Catholic family, he grew up on Edinburgh's rough-and-tumble streets, far from his successful grandfather and uncles, who hobnobbed with London's intellectual elite.

  8. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...

  9. sherlockholmes.stanford.edu › print_biographyArthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle's humble beginnings did not predict his future success. Born on May 22, 1859, to a middle-class, Catholic family, he grew up on Edinburgh's rough-and-tumble streets, far from his successful grandfather and uncles, who hobnobbed with London's intellectual elite.

  10. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. In 1876 Doyle entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he became a pupil of Joseph ...

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