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Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place in the Scottish city of Edinburgh.
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He went to a prestigious college, Stonyhurst College.
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he began a career in medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
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He married with Louise Hawkins. -
He moved to be an ophthalmologist. -
He wrote his longest book "A Boer War" -
He tried to enlist, at the age of fifty-five, as a simple private. In his letter he defends that he is strong and has an audible voice. They rejected it, but it helped with propaganda and with the support of civilian volunteers from the UK.
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When one of his sons, Kingsley, died, he began to write a book to which he devoted a lot of time.
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He died in Crowborough, East Sussex, England, aged seventy-one, of a heart attack.