He then went on to Stonyhurst College, which he attended until 1875. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to England, at the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst in Lancashire at the age of nine (1868–70). In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness. Beginning at an early age, throughout his life, Doyle wrote letters to his mother, and many of them were preserved. Arthur lodged with Mary Burton, the aunt of a friend, at Liberton Bank House on Gilmerton Road, while studying at Newington Academy. His parents married in 1855. In 1864 the family scattered because of Charles's growing alcoholism, and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. Portrait of Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1893ĭoyle was born on at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was English, of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (née Foley), was Irish Catholic. But technically his last name is simply 'Doyle'. When knighted, he was gazetted as Doyle, not under the compound Conan Doyle. Shortly after he graduated from high school he began using Conan as a sort of surname. Steven Doyle, editor of The Baker Street Journal, wrote, Conan was Arthur's middle name. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather. The catalogues of the British Library and the Library of Congress treat Doyle alone as his surname. His baptism entry in the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives Arthur Ignatius Conan as his given names and Doyle as his surname.

Habakuk Jephson's Statement (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.ĭoyle is often referred to as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Conan Doyle, implying that Conan is part of a compound surname rather than a middle name. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.ĭoyle was a prolific writer other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL ( – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle images/cover.png thumb-350-794775.jpg images/logo-feedbooks-tiny.pngĬategorie(s): Fiction, Action & Adventure

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