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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. -
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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In 1885 he married Louise Hawkins, better known as Touie, with whom he had two children: Mary Louise and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley.
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was a Scottish doctor and author. He is well known because he wrote short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote science fiction and historical stories.
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In 1887 Doyle published his first novel. -
Without losing an instant, he volunteered as a medical doctor and sailed to Africa in February of 1900. -
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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In May 1914, Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle sailed for New York, a city the author found unfavourably changed since his first visit twenty years earlier.
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He died in 1930