Arthur conan doyle

Biography sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By Helennaa18

  • Birth

    Birth
    Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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    University

    He studied medicine at Edinburgh University from 1876 to 1881.

  • Work

    In 1882, he started working as a doctor in Southsea.

  • Children

    In 1885 he married Louise Hawkins, better known as Touie, with whom he had two children: Mary Louise and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley.
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    Was a...

    was a Scottish doctor and author. He is well known because he wrote short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote science fiction and historical stories.

  • First novel

    First novel
    In 1887 Doyle published his first novel.

  • Voluntereed

    Voluntereed
    Without losing an instant, he volunteered as a medical doctor and sailed to Africa in February of 1900.

  • Depression

    After Louisa died in his arms on the 4th of July 1906, Conan Doyle slipped into a debilitating state of depression lasting many months.

  • Travel

    In May 1914, Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle sailed for New York, a city the author found unfavourably changed since his first visit twenty years earlier.

  • Death

    Death
    He died in 1930