Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir arthur conan doyle

1859-1930

Origins of sherlock holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character based on a forensic scientist named Dr. Joseph Bell. Dr. Joseph used to be a captivating and detail-oriented mentor to the Sherlock Holmes series author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. With the motivation and inspiration that Mr. Doyle gained from watching Dr. Joseph the first release of the hit series, Sherlock Holmes, was born and named “A Study in Scarlet". It was published in 1887 and it was a fictional story in which the iconic detective duo was first introduced to the world. Sherlock and Dr. Wastson's first mystery was to solve the murder of Joseph Stangerson.

"life is infinantly stanger than anything which the mind of man could invent" - Sir arthur conan doyle

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EDUCATION

LIFE AFTER HOLMES

FAMILY

On May 22nd, 1859 Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh Scotland to a well-off Irish Catholic family. Mr. Doyle was the second child from his 9 siblings to be born Sven of his siblings were sisters and 2 of his siblings were brothers to Mr. Doyle. His mother was known as Mary Josephine Foley (1837-1920) and his father was known as Charles Altamont Doyle (1832-1893). After growing up Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got married to Louisa Hawkins in 1885 and had 2 children Mary and Kingsley. Sadly, Ms. Hawkings passed away in 1906 and shortly a year after mourning Mr. Doyle got married to a much younger lady named Jean Leckie. With Ms. Leckie, Mr. Doyle had three more children, Denis, Adrian, and Jean.

The final release of the Sherlock Holmes stories was titled “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” and was set out in 1928. A year after in 1929 Mr. Doyle got diagnosed with a sickness known as Angina Pectoris which occurs when the heart doesn’t get enough blood and is mainly caused by coronary heart disease. Even after knowing he had a disease Mr. Doyle ignored medical advice and went on a spiritual tour throughout the Netherlands. Once Mr. Doyle came home he was too sick to even walk and was carried onto shore until he came home and stayed bedridden at his house in Crowborough, England. On July 7, 1930, Mr. Doyle fainted and died in his garden whilst gripping his heart with one hand and holding a flower in his other.

Mr. Doyle’s education began once he left his hometown of Edinburgh to study for seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England. After another year of study in Austria, Mr. Doyle came back to Edinburgh to study under his mother’s tenant, Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, to get into the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. Once in his aspired medical school, Mr. Doyle received his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degrees in 1881 and a full M.D. in 1885. As a man in the 19th century, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a highly educated scholar. The shcools he want to were Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, Stonyhurst College, University of Edinburgh

MORE OF DOYLE'S WRITINGS

The American's Tale

Micah Clarke

Uncle Bernac

The Maracot Deep

Published: December 1896

Published: October 1927

Published: December 1880

Published: Janruary 1889

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