"regarded as potentially useful in a 21st-century murder investigation. Doyle was the doctor on the Greenland whaler ""Hope"" of Peterhead in 1880. As M.B., C.M. after his graduation from university in 1881, he was ship's surgeon on the SS ""Mayumba"" during a voyage to the West African coast. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree (an advanced degree in Scotland beyond the usual medical degrees) on the subject of ""tabes dorsalis"" in 1885. In 1882, Doyle joined former classmate George Turnavine Budd as his partner at a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left"
"Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well-known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. In 1876 Doyle entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he became a pupil of Joseph Bell, whose deductive processes impressed his pupil so much that the teacher became the chief model for Holmes. Doyle began writing while still a student, and in October 1879 he had"
"Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1981. For eight years, she worked in publishing at Quarto and Gordon Fraser. She spent two years teaching English as a foreign language in Turin, Italy and Bilbao, Spain. She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, ""Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell."" In 1993, she was hired by Simon"
"1930, while the writer ""most wanted to be remembered as a champion of spiritualism and as a historical novelist, it is Sherlock Holmes who has continued to capture the imagination of the public."" The majority of Doyle's poetry falls into the genre of war poetry. Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well-known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. In 1876 Doyle"
"Doyle pursued an education in the medical field,where he began writing short stories. Conan Doyle, who is best known for his novels detailing the life of Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes, also has written numerous short stories, nonfiction works, historical novels, short stories, poetry and one operetta. Conan Doyle published The Sign of Four in 1890, which established Sherlock Holmes as a prominent character and did wonders in putting Conan Doyle on the map literature map in the United Kingdom and United States. However, Conan Doyle is said to have balanced writing historical novels with novels featuring Sherlock Holmes in the"
"Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published ""A Study in Scarlet"", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic"
"Carr graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown during 1925 and Haverford College during 1929. During the early 1930s, he relocated to England, where he married Clarice Cleaves, an Englishwoman. He began his mystery-writing career there, returning to the United States as an internationally known author during 1948. During 1950, his biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle earned Carr the first of his two Special Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America; the second was awarded during 1970, in recognition of his 40-year career as a mystery writer. He was also presented the MWA's Grand Master award during 1963."
"in Tripoli. He went on to read law at Lincoln College, Oxford. As a young man he taught English to the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. ""Deluge"", Doyle's first novel, was published in 1976. ""Imperial 109"" was published the following year and became a wild success in both the United Kingdom and the United States, selling over a million copies. His 2002 novel ""Flood"" was a best-seller and was adapted for the 2007 film of the same title. He was considered an expert on matters related to climate change and the flooding of London. He was invited to the ""London"
"of the Speckled Band"" as his overall favourite. Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, ""The Mystery of Sasassa Valley"", published in September 1879. After eight years, ""A Study in Scarlet"", Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, was published by Ward Lock & Co. The novel was well received, but Doyle was paid little for it, and despite a sequel novel, ""The Sign of the Four"", which was published in Lipincott's Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to short stories. In early 1891, the first editor of ""The"
"Aston (then a town in Warwickshire, now part of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire. During that time, he studied practical botany at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. While studying, Doyle began writing short stories. His earliest extant fiction, ""The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe"", was unsuccessfully submitted to ""Blackwood's Magazine"". His first published piece, ""The Mystery of Sasassa Valley"", a story set in South Africa, was printed in ""Chambers's Edinburgh Journal"" on 6 September 1879. On 20 September 1879, he published his first academic article, ""Gelsemium as a Poison"" in the ""British Medical Journal"", a study which ""The Daily Telegraph"""
"grew up in Kilbarrack, in a middle-class family. His mother, Ita Bolger Doyle, was a first cousin of the short story writer Maeve Brennan. Doyle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin. He spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993. His personal notes and work books reside at the National Library of Ireland. In addition to teaching, Doyle, along with Seán Love, established a creative writing centre, ""Fighting Words"", which opened in Dublin in January 2009. It was inspired by a visit to his friend Dave Eggers'"
"causes of the present troubles of this country"". The Victorian period also saw authors with a Birmingham background produce fiction in a far broader range of genres. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, started his career as a writer in Birmingham. His first story ""The Mystery of Sasassa Valley"" was written and published in 1879 while he was working as a medical assistant in Aston, as was his second ""The American's Tale"", whose success led his editor to advise him to give up medicine and pursue a full-time literary career. Birmingham appears in Conan Doyle's"
"1093; Randle Greene (sic) had married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Lancelyn, in the reign of Elizabeth I. Lancelyn Green attended Bradfield College in Berkshire, and then University College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in English. After leaving college, he travelled extensively, throughout Europe, India and South-east Asia. Lancelyn Green was a collector of Sherlock Holmes-related material, and was co-editor of the first comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Conan Doyle, ""A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle"", with John Michael Gibson, and also a series of collections of Doyle's writings that had never before been collected in book form: ""Uncollected"
"popular influence on many writers towards the end of the 19th century. Conan Doyle also developed a series of short stories entitled Brigadier Gerard. The series featured Etienne Gerard, a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Other writings by Conan Doyle involving the Napoleonic Era include Adventures of Gerard and Uncle Bernac. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Conan Doyle credit his mother, Mary Doyle, who had a passion for books and he describes her as a master storyteller. He says in his biography that,""""In my early childhood, as far"
"to Win"". Though he did not complete a formal education, Conroy worked at various jobs including: railroad shop apprentice (and eventual foreman), recording secretary for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America union office, an auto factory worker, and construction. While he worked, he wrote, and it is said that in 1934, when soaring temperatures had burned up crops and blistered city streets, Conroy moved his kitchen table outdoors beneath a shade tree where he created his second novel, ""A World to Win"". From 1931 to 1941 Conroy edited successively the magazines ""Rebel Poet"", ""The Anvil"", and ""The New Anvil""."
"and the Library of Congress treat ""Doyle"" alone as his surname. Steven Doyle, editor of ""The Baker Street Journal"", wrote, ""Conan was Arthur's middle name. Shortly after he graduated from high school he began using Conan as a sort of surname. But technically his last name is simply 'Doyle'."" When knighted, he was gazetted as Doyle, not under the compound Conan Doyle. Nevertheless, the actual use of a compound surname is demonstrated by the fact that Doyle's second wife was known as Jean Conan Doyle rather than Jean Doyle. Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place,"
"to take to a religious career, but he originally wanted to be a veterinary surgeon. He studied sociology and history at Maynooth, followed by the London College of Printing, where he earned a diploma in broadcast journalism. After graduation, Doyle worked on local radio with BBC Radio Suffolk based in Ipswich, before moving on to ITV to present the children's show ""Disney Club"" in 1994, having been head hunted following a chance meeting with a producer from the show at a visit to Alton Towers. Moving to London, he presented ""Tomorrow's World"", ""Fasten Your Seatbelt"" and ""Innovation Nation"", and spent"
"Arthur Conan Doyle) fooled by the Cottingley Fairies hoax In 1937 he traveled to South Africa to stay with friends Mr and Mrs Quail and their daughter Ethelwynne, who was an artist. Under Hodson’s guidance she painted the illustrations for his book, The Kingdom of the Gods. Hodson then went to Australia to be with his wife Jane, who since 1929 had progressive paralysis due to multiple sclerosis. She died in 1962. He served there as president of the Blavatsky Lodge, and a Perth theosophist Miss Sandra Chase offered to take care of his wife. In 1940 he was invited"
"Richard Doyle (author) Richard Doyle (10 January 1948 – 22 June 2017) was a British author of thriller novels. Doyle was born in Saint Saviour, Guernsey, and on his third birthday was presented at the court of Emperor Haile Selassie. He lived variously in Tripoli, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Kenya, Morocco, Libya, Beirut, Barbados, Antigua, France, Greece, Ireland, and the United States. Home for several years was a plantation house in the West Indies, then on Cape Ann, followed by a fortified bastide in Gascony. He spent a short time at Rugby School before completing his studies at the British Army school"
"nineteenth century as football became more popular and widespread, but none were as successful as the professional Portsmouth F.C., which continues to the present day. Portsmouth Association Football Club was an amateur team founded in 1883 by renowned Portsmouth architect, Arthur Edward Cogswell (1858–1934). Portsmouth AFC's most famous player was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Arriving in Portsmouth in June 1882, Doyle set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful. While waiting for patients, Doyle began writing fiction, played cricket and also"
"and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He appeared in four novels and fifty-six short stories, all but four stories narrated by his associate, the notable Dr Watson. These works cover in fiction a period from around 1878 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. Both characters also appear in many pastiches. Holmes is a brilliant London-based and self-styled ""consulting detective"". In their debut (the 1887 novel, ""A Study in Scarlet""), he tells Watson that this occupation is unique (which at that date it was). As a retired army doctor, Dr Watson is far closer to the stereotypic English"
"a popular teacher noted for his diagnostic acumen, based on his powers of observation of meticulous detail, which were enhanced by his interest in the analysis of handwriting and of the origin of dialects. Among the medical students he taught was Arthur Conan Doyle, whom Bell selected as his clerk, or assistant. Doyle, gave up medicine to become a writer, and, having achieved fame and wealth through the Sherlock Holmes stories, wrote to his former chief ""...it is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes.” In November 1870, the Hall was the scene of a public riot when"
"which he submitted to magazines. Doyle then attended Carleton University in Ottawa, where he majored in journalism, and met his future wife. Before graduation, Doyle won a prize for an essay he wrote about the Gatineau River Valley. After graduation, Doyle worked as a reporter for the ""Toronto Telegram"". He soon left this job to teach high school in Ottawa. He took courses at University of Ottawa towards a master's degree in literature, but did not write a thesis. While working as a teacher, Doyle wrote a column for a local newspaper and published a short story in the literary"
"soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, ""J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement"", helped to popularise the mystery of the ""Mary Celeste"". Doyle is often referred to as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or simply Conan Doyle (implying that ""Conan"" is part of a compound surname as opposed to his given middle name). His baptism entry in the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives ""Arthur Ignatius Conan"" as his given names and ""Doyle"" as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather. The cataloguers of the British Library"
"to his elder brother Richard, he had no formal training, apart from lessons in his father's studio. In 1849 he moved to Edinburgh, to take up a post at the Scottish Office of Works where he was employed as an assistant surveyor. On 31 July 1855, he married Mary Foley (1837–1920), his landlady's daughter. Together they became parents to several children; (sources debate whether it was nine or ten) seven of whom survived childhood, including Arthur Conan Doyle, John Francis Innes Hay (known as Innes or Duff), and Jane Adelaide Rose (known as Ida). To support his growing family, in"
"to set up an independent practice. Arriving in Portsmouth in June 1882, with less than £10 (£ today) to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was not successful. While waiting for patients, Doyle returned to writing fiction. Doyle was a staunch supporter of compulsory vaccination and wrote several articles advocating for the practice and denouncing the views of anti-vaccinators. In early 1891, Doyle attempted the study of ophthalmology in Vienna. He had previously studied at the Portsmouth Eye Hospital to qualify to perform eye tests and prescribe glasses."
"in 1978, bringing his work to wider attention and appreciation. Charles Altamont Doyle Charles Altamont Doyle (25 March 1832 – 10 October 1893) was an illustrator, watercolourist and civil servant. Member of an artistic family, he is remembered today primarily for being the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was the son of artist John Doyle, the political cartoonist known as H.B., and Marianna Conan Doyle. Three of his older brothers in the family of seven children were artists: James William Edmund Doyle, Richard ""Dickie"" Doyle, and Henry Edward Doyle. The family was of Irish"
"school for his education, he became an agnostic before returning to spiritualism in 1916. The period in which this book was written may allude to some of Conan Doyle's personal opinions through Smith. In 2004, Tim Cornwell reports the purchase of Arthur Conan Doyle’s notebooks by the British Library in literary publication, The Scotsman. Cornwell notes difficulty with which it was obtained from disputing descendants and the cultural significance of the work explained by professor Owen Dudley Edwards of the University of Edinburgh, “the book [is] a missing link in the Conan Doyle canon… It will tell an awful lot"
"set out to become an actor, due to his education at Queen Mary’s grammar school in Walsall, known for its strong theatrical tradition, and then at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. General mobilization interrupted his studies and he founded a theathre company called Theatre Unlimited. However, with his acting career lasting only for a short time, he first became an advertising copywriter, then joined the National Service as a gunner with the Royal Artillery, and later worked as editor at Jonathan Cape. He finally joined the BBC in 1963. His earliest work was as a freelance"
"People. He was educated at St. George's College, Weybridge, Surrey. After his schooling he joined the English Stage Company in Sloane Square, London. A year later he opened a jeans business in Carnaby Street London, at the height of the Swinging Sixties where he enjoyed considerable commercial success. He studied alternative religions and Taoist philosophy for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where he lived in Laguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book, ""Miracles"", in 1983. Shortly thereafter he began"
"Charles Altamont Doyle Charles Altamont Doyle (25 March 1832 – 10 October 1893) was an illustrator, watercolourist and civil servant. Member of an artistic family, he is remembered today primarily for being the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was the son of artist John Doyle, the political cartoonist known as H.B., and Marianna Conan Doyle. Three of his older brothers in the family of seven children were artists: James William Edmund Doyle, Richard ""Dickie"" Doyle, and Henry Edward Doyle. The family was of Irish background but Doyle was born and raised in England. Similarly"
"collecting material for a planned three-volume biography of Conan Doyle, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. He lamented the legal wranglings needed to gain rights to Conan Doyle's private papers and manuscripts, which were planned to be sold at an auction. During August 2004, it was announced that Lancelyn Green had bequeathed his extensive collection on Conan Doyle to the Portsmouth Library Service. Lancelyn Green had chosen the city because Conan Doyle had a medical practice there, and it was where the two first Sherlock Holmes books were written. As early as the age of seven years,"
"of spirit possession. He debated the psychiatrist Harold Dearden, who was diametrically opposed to Doyle's views. He travelled to Australia and New Zealand on spiritualist missionary work in 1920, and continued his mission all the way up to his death, speaking about his spiritualist conviction in Britain, Europe, and the United States. Doyle was also inspired by his Spiritualist beliefs to write a novel on the subject, ""The Land of Mist"", featuring the character Professor Challenger. He wrote many other non-fictional Spiritualist works; perhaps his most famous being ""The Coming of the Fairies"" (1922) which reveals Conan Doyle's conviction in"