Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 Mey 1859, in Edinburgh – 7 Julie 1930, in Crowborough, East Sussex, Ingland) wis the Breetish owthor maist kent for his stories aboot the detective Sherlock Holmes that's aft considert a muckle innovation in the field o crime feection. He wis a thrang writer that's ither warks includes science feection stories, historical novelles, plays an romances, poetry, an nane-feection.

Early life[eedit | eedit soorce]

Conan Doyle's birth place, 11 Picardy Place, Embro[1] his a plaque. His schullin wis at Jesuit schull, Stonyhurst College,[2] an Stella Matutina Jesuit schull in Feldkirch, Austrick.[2]

Arthur Conan Doyle birth place in Embro

Medical career[eedit | eedit soorce]

Conan Doyle's surgery, 2 Upper Wimpole st, Marylebone, London

He studied medicine at the Varsity o Edinburgh (1876 –1881) an wis wirkin in touns in England: Sheffield, Aston, Ruyton.[3] Conan Doyle was mediciner oan whaul ship Hope tae Greenland oot o Peterheid.[4] He wis also oan the SS Mayumba as surgeon goin oot tae West Africa.[5] Efter studyin aboot medicine o the ee (opthalmology) in Vienna, he wirkit in London.

He had no owr mony patients, and sae had plentifu time fir his screivin. [6]

Leeterar career[eedit | eedit soorce]

Conan Doyle's erest scrievin wis fir magazines an his erest Sherlock Holmes scrieve wis A Study in Scarlet (1887).

ArthurConanDoyle AStudyInScarlet

Bibliography[eedit | eedit soorce]

List o aa Conan Doyle's warks (in Inglis).[1]

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  1. "Arthur Conan Doyle | Biography, Books, Sherlock Holmes, Death, Fairies, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com (in Inglis). Retrieved 18 Januar 2022.
  2. a b Pascal, Janet B. (2000). Arthur Conan Doyle : beyond Baker Street (in Inglis). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 1-4237-7436-1. OCLC 252615388.
  3. Brown, Yoland (1988). Ruyton XI Towns : Unusual name, unusual history. Studley: Brewin. ISBN 0-947731-41-5. OCLC 18627580.
  4. Doyle, Arthur Conan (2012). Dangerous work : diary of an Arctic adventure. Jon L. Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower. Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-00905-6. OCLC 783150203.
  5. "Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859–1930)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 6 Februar 2018, retrieved 18 Januar 2022
  6. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Biographical Introduction". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 18 Januar 2022.