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Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22nd, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland
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By 1876, graduating at the age of seventeen
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He studied medicine at Edinburgh University from 1876 to 1881
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In 1882, he started working as a doctor in Southsea
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On August 5, 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle married Louisa Hawkins.
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His first Sherlock Holmes story that was published was A Study in Scarlet.
His first Sherlock Holmes story that was published was A Study in Scarlet. -
After Louisa died in his arms on the 4th of July 1906, Conan Doyle slipped into a debilitating state of depression lasting many months
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Finally, after nine years of clandestine courtship, Conan Doyle and Jean Leckie got married very publicly in front of 250 guests, on September 18, 1907. With his two children with Louisa, they all moved to a new home called "Windlesham", in Sussex. He would spend the rest of his life living in that lovely house while keeping a small flat in London.
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Arthur Conan Doyle died, Crowborough in United Kingdom