Two with his first wife-Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976), and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). Jean died in London on 27 June 1940.Ĭonan Doyle fathered five children. Due to his sense of loyalty he had maintained a purely platonic relationship with Jean while his first wife was alive. The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. She suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as 'Touie'. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885. Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. His first published story appeared in ' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal' before he was 20. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as 'Conan Doyle', the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Watson and Sherlock Holmes, in Holmes' fourth book.Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is perhaps the most famous fictional detective, and indeed one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his prowess at using logic and astute observation to solve cases. He was devised by Scottish author and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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