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Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Also known as: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arts & Culture
- In full:
- Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
- Died:
- July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England (aged 71)
- Notable Works:
- “Round the Red Lamp”
- “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
- “The British Campaign in France and Flanders”
- “The Crime of the Congo”
- “The Final Problem”
- “The Firm of Girdlestone”
- “The Great Boer War”
- “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
- “The Mystery of Cloomber”
- “The Stark Munro Letters”
- “The White Company”
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Arthur Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother’s lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. He ...(100 of 827 words)