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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBORN on 22 May 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland
DIED on 7 July� 1930,
Crowborough, Sussex, England.
Conan was originally his middle name, but later he began using 'Conan Doyle' as his surname. Although the world mostly remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle� for his creation of the fictional master detective, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's life, like the literary canvas he painted, was varied and highly interesting. |
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Doyle's education took place at home and in a local Edinburgh school. Later he was sent
� to the Jesuit preparatory school of Hodder in Lancashire. Which was attached to the
Jesuit secondary school of Stonyhurst, where Conan Doyle moved two years later. From 1876 to 1881 studied medicine at the Edinburgh University. There he met two characters who were the models for his main fictional creations: Professor Rutherford, with his� enormous chest, Assyrian beard, prodigious voice, and singular manner became � Professor George Edward Challenger of The Lost World; and Dr Joseph Bell, whith his amazing deductions became Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took various jobs (to assist his mother), as a medical assistant in Sheffield, Shrophshire, and Birmingham, and� as a ship's doctor on a voyage to the West African coast. Later Dr George Turnavine Budd invited ACD to become his partner in a medical practice in Plymouth. Since then he began writing novels in his spare time. In 1885 he married Louise Hawkins, they had two children. She was very ill and died in 1906. After his first wife's death he went to South Africa to witness The Boer War.In 1907 he married again. In 1912 Conan Doyle wrote The Lost World, a tale of pre-history alive and surviving on a remote South-American plateau. Professor Challenger one of the main Doyle's characters has� further adventures, including The Poison Belt which appeared in the following year. ACD served as a private in the Crowborough Company of the Sixth Royal Sussex Volunteer Regminet. In the role of a war journalist, Conan Doyle visited the battle fronts of the British, French and Italians. Besides writing ACD was also known as a fine sportsman. he played football,cricket, rugby, golf and also skiing, boxing, motor-racing. By 1916, Conan Doyle's explorations into psychic matters had convinced him that he should devote the final years of his life to the advancement of Spiritualism. Spiritualism became Conan Doyle's religion and his driving force, taking him to Australia, America, Canada, and� South Africa for lecture tours which he recorded in various biographical studies. He was careful in his testing of mediums but, not unnaturally, those cases where he was deceived have been seized upon by critics to justify what they regard as his credulity. Credulity was a charge also to be levelled at Conan Doyle when, in 1922, he declared the famous Cottingley Fairy photographs to be genuine. This latter case has been frequently documented, and the photographs are famous the world over. Following a tour of Scandinavia and Holland in 1929, Conan Doyle returned to England exhausted, and suffered a heart attack. He remained weak and ill for several months and died at home on 7 July 1930. Conan Doyle's contribution to the literature of the English language was immense. He wrote historycal novels, a lot of short stories, and tales of horror and the supernatural.And of course he gave us our Lost World!!!! Info is taken from my book's intro and also from The Arthur Conan Doyle Society |
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| Related Links | |||
| http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsocy.html | The Arthur Conan Doyle Society | ||
| http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/ | This is the Official web site of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate. | ||
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