Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated by the Jesuits and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where one of his teachers, Dr. Joseph Bell, impressed him with his skill at drawing conclusions from small details. Doyle served as a ship's doctor and set up a medical practice in Southsea, near Portsmouth, where he began writing in his spare time. A Study in Scarlet (1887) introduced the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson, and short stories in The Strand Magazine made them enormously popular. Doyle tried to end the series by having Holmes die in 1893, but public demand brought the detective back, first in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Doyle also wrote historical novels and the adventure The Lost World, served as a volunteer doctor in the Boer War, and was knighted in 1902. In later life he devoted himself to spiritualism. He died in 1930.

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Faith: Regarded his campaign for spiritualism as his most important work. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica