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 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859 and died 1930. He was married twice, he had two children with Louise Hawkins, and she died after a protracted illness in 1900.  In 1907 he remarried with Jeanne Leckie and they had two children. 

He was a doctor, novelist and writer of detective novels, creator of the unforgettable master detective Sherlock Holmes. He was educated at the universities of Stonyhurst and Edinburgh, later studied medicine from 1876 to 1881. In June 1882, he moved to Portsmouth. While there, set up a clinic.  In his spare time he began writing stories again. 

 

It was so successful early in his literary career in five years abandoned the practice of medicine and devoted himself entirely to writing. His first outstanding work was "A Study in Scarlet" where the author creates the most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, published in 1887. 
 

 The author was based on a teacher he met at the university to create the character of Holmes with his ingenious deductive reasoning skills. Also exceptional are the creations of the characters who accompany him: his friend kind and clumsy, Dr. Watson, who is the narrator of the stories, and the arch criminal Professor Moriarty.

The best Holmes stories are The Sign of Four (1890), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and his last hurray on the stage (1917).Conan Doyle Had the same success with his historical novels, such as Micah Clarke (1888), The White       Company (1890), Rodney Stone (1896) and Sir Nigel  (1906), as well as his play history of Waterloo (1894). During the Boer War was a military doctor and on his return to England wrote The Boer War (1900) and The War in South Africa (1902).