BiographyBorn: May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Died: July 07, 1930 Gender: male Genre: Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Reference Influences: Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, and Thomas Babington Macaulay __________________________________________________________________________________ gnatius Conan Doyle is a Scottish author was born on 22 May 1859 in, Edinburgh, Scotland. He knows form his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes. He was generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction. He also was prolific writer in science fiction stories, romances poetry, plays, non-fiction, and historical novels. The Stories of Sherlock Holmes & The Lost World were one of the biggest achievements of Conan Doyle. |
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Early life and Education:
His father Charles Altamont Doyle was English of Irish descent born in England on 25 March 1832. He was a Victorian artist. In 1849 he moved to Edinburgh where he met Mary Foley. They got marriage in 1855. They had ten children Conan was the second child.
Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit elementary school at the age of nine. At the age of sixteen he went to study in Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876 he was educated in at the Jesuit school in Feldkirch, Austria. In 1876 he complete his education at the University of Edinburgh he studied medicine. He also was working in the town of Aston and in Sheffield. While studying, he started writing short stories at his free time. His first published story "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", a story set in South Africa before he was 20. In 1879 he published his nonfiction article. In 1880, following his term at the university he had employed as a doctor on the Greenland whaler Hope of Pete head to the West African coast. Conan completes his doctorate on 1885 on the subject Tabes dorsalis. |
Personal Life and Marriage:
Conan Doyle married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. In 1891 moved to London with his young family, where he began to specialize in ophthalmology. He had two children Mary Louise 28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976 and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley known as Kingsley born on15 November 1892 and he died on 28 October 1918. His wife died suffering from tuberculosis on 4 July 1906.
A year later he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie the one he fall in love with in 1897. He had three children Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), Adrian Malcolm 19 November 1910 was his youngest son and his youngest daughter Jean Lena Annette was born in 21 December 1912. She died at the age of 84 on 18 November 1997. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940. |
Writing Career:
Conan began his medical practice at south sea, England, in the year of 1882. While waiting for patients, Doyle again began writing magazine stories. Influenced by a character of Edgar Allen Poe, the French detective M. Dupin. He decided to write about crime fiction stories. Conan Doyle wanted to create his own detective character.
Between other works published in Doyle's career were Beyond the City (1892), a short novel of modern city life; The Great Shadow (1892), a historical novel of the Napoleonic period; The Refugees (1893), a historical novel about French Huguenots; and The Stark Munro Letters (1894). In 1896 he released one of his best-known historical novels, Rodney Stone, which was followed by another historical novel, Uncle Bernac (1897) and a collection of poems, Songs of Action (1898); and two less popular novels, The Tragedy of Korosko (1898) and A Duet (1899). Doyle played football while living in South Sea. He played as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club. He was playing under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. Conan Doyle was also a keen cricketer. He played 10 first class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1899 and 1907. Also a keen golfer, Conan Doyle was elected captain of the Crow borough Beacon Golf Club, East Sussex for 1910. |
Political campaigning
Following the Boer War in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century and the condemnation from around the world over the United Kingdom's conduct, Conan Doyle wrote a short pamphlet titled The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, which justified the UK's role in the Boer War and was widely translated. Doyle had served as a volunteer doctor in the Longman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June 1900.
Conan Doyle believed it was this pamphlet that resulted in his being knighted in 1902 and appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey. Also in 1900 he wrote the longer book, The Great Boer War. During the early years of the 20th century, Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament as a Liberal Unionist...once in Edinburgh and once in the Hawick Burghs...but although he received a respectable vote, he was not elected.
Conan Doyle was involved in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by journalist E. D. Morel and diplomat Roger Casement. During 1909 he wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors in that country. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible that, together with Bertram Fletcher Robinson, they inspired several characters in the 1912 novel The Lost World.
He broke with both when Morel became one of the leaders of the pacifist movement during the First World War, and when Casement was convicted of treason against the UK during the Easter Rising. Conan Doyle tried unsuccessfully to save Casement from the death penalty, arguing that he had been driven mad and was not responsible for his actions.
Conan Doyle believed it was this pamphlet that resulted in his being knighted in 1902 and appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey. Also in 1900 he wrote the longer book, The Great Boer War. During the early years of the 20th century, Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament as a Liberal Unionist...once in Edinburgh and once in the Hawick Burghs...but although he received a respectable vote, he was not elected.
Conan Doyle was involved in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by journalist E. D. Morel and diplomat Roger Casement. During 1909 he wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors in that country. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible that, together with Bertram Fletcher Robinson, they inspired several characters in the 1912 novel The Lost World.
He broke with both when Morel became one of the leaders of the pacifist movement during the First World War, and when Casement was convicted of treason against the UK during the Easter Rising. Conan Doyle tried unsuccessfully to save Casement from the death penalty, arguing that he had been driven mad and was not responsible for his actions.
Conan Doyle Became Famous:
By the success of the Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand magazine, Conan Doyle was suddenly an extremely famous writer. The magazine wanted more stories. As the author didn't want to be too associated with the now-famous detective, he was got 50 pounds per story. Conan Doyle was amazed when the magazine accepted. He went on to keep writing about Sherlock Holmes.
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Spiritualism
Following the death of his wife Louisa in 1906, the death of his son Kingsley just before the end of World War I, and the deaths of his brother Innes, his two brothers-in-law (one of whom was E. W. Hornung, creator of the literary character Raffles) and his two nephews shortly after the war, Conan Doyle sank into depression. He found solace supporting spiritualism and its attempts to find proof of existence beyond the grave. In particular, according to some, he favored Christian Spiritualism and encouraged the Spiritualists' National Union to accept an eighth precept - that of following the teachings and example of Jesus of Nazareth. He also was a member of the renowned paranormal organization The Ghost Club. Its focus, then and now, is on the scientific study of alleged paranormal activities in order to prove (or refute) the existence of paranormal phenomena.
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