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Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a Scottish doctor and author. He was famous because he wrote short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.
His mother, Mary Doyle, was a major influence in his life and His father, Charles, was an architect in Edinburgh -
Arthur Conan Doyle, with the financial support of his uncles, entered the Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall School of the Order of the Society of Jesus, located in the county of Lancashire.
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Conan studied medicine at Edinburgh University
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He started work of a doctor in Southsea, while he wrote short stories in his spare time -
He was moved to Portsmouth. There installed a clinic but it didn't well and he wrote stories -
Conan Doyle married with Louisa Hawkins in 1885 and together they had two children Mary and Kingsley -
His first Sherlock Holmes story that was published was A Study in Scarlet in 1887 -
In 1887 he moved to London to practice as an ophthalmologist. -
Doyle was knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and other services during the South African -
A year after Louisa’s death, he married Jean Leckie and with her had three children, Denis, Adrian, and Jean.
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Sir Nigel is a historical novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1906. It takes place in medieval England around the year 1350 and narrates the life of a young nobleman from an impoverished family, Nigel Loring, -
After the death of his son Kingsley just before the end of the First World War, and the deaths of his brother Innes, his two brothers-in-law and his two nephews shortly after the war, Doyle sank into depression
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Doyle's wife Louisa died in 1906
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He died on July 7, 1930 at the age of 71 from a heart attack, in Crowborough (England)