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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born	22 May 1859 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	7 July 1930 (aged 71) Crowborough, East Sussex, England
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, poet, doctor of medicine
Nationality	Scottish
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Genres	Detective fiction, historical novels,non-fiction
Notablework(s)	Stories of Sherlock Holmes The Lost World
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish^[1] physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detectiveSherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures ofProfessor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works includescience fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

Contents  [hide] 1 Life 1.1 Early life 1.2 Employment and the origins of Sherlock Holmes 1.3 Marriages and family 1.4 Death of Sherlock Holmes 1.5 Political campaigning 1.6 Miscarriages of justice 1.7 Spiritualism 2 Death 3 Bibliography 3.1 Holmes books 3.2 Challenger stories 3.3 Historical novels 3.4 Other works 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 External links

 Life

 Early life

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to father of Irish descent, Charles Altamont Doyle, and an Irish mother, née Mary Foley. His parents were married in 1855.^[2]

Although 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. The entry in which his baptism is recorded in the register of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and the simple 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.^[3]

Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place,Stonyhurst, at the age of nine. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, but by the time he left the school in 1875, he had rejected Christianity to become anagnostic.^{[citation needed]}

From 1876 to 1881, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in the town of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and in Sheffield.^[4]While studying, he also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20.^[5] Following his term at university, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885.^[6]