Yes, we have the amazing author of Sherlock Holmes. I've just recently had the pleasure of being gifted a complete works of Sherlock Holmes containing the original illustrations. Born May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh Scotland. He was one of ten siblings, both of his parents were Irish. He was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school Hodder place, Stonyhurst at the age of nine. He went on to Stonyhurst College but by the time he left the school in 1875 he'd rejected Christianity to become an Agnostic. From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh including a period in working in the town of Aston and Sheffield. While studying he began writing short stories, his first published story appeared in Chamber's Edinburgh Journal before he was twenty.
Sir Arthur was a Scottish physician and writer. Best known for his detective novels of Sherlock Holmes, which is typically considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. He's also well-known for the adventures of Professor Challenger and The Lost World. He was a prolific writer, his other works include science fiction, historic novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
In 1882 he joined former classmate George Budd as his partner at a medical practice in Plymouth but it didn't work out and he left to set up an independent practice. It didn't begin very successfully and while awaiting patients he'd continued to writing. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. It was the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes which was partially modelled after his university professor Joseph Bell. He wrote to him that, "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes...Round the centre of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man".
Future short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the English Strand Magazine. However, even others from far away could recognize the similarity between Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes. Other authors are known to suggest influences such as Edgar Allan Poe's character C. Auguste Dupin (who is known as the first to publish detective stories).
While living in Southsea he played football as a goalkeeper for an amateur side, portsmouth association football club under the name A. C. Smith. He was also a cricketer and played ten first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club. He was also an occasional bowler and golfer. In 1885 he married Louisa Hawkins, though she suffered from Tuberculosis and died on July 4th, 1906. The next year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he's first met in 1897 and had fallen in love with her then, however, he kept things platonic until his wife died out of loyalty. He had five children two with his first wife, Louisa and three with his second.
In 1890 he began studying eyes and moved to london in 1891 to open a practice as an ophthalmologist. He wrote in his autobiography that not a single patient crossed his door, but that gave him time for writing. In 1891 he wrote to his mom, "I think of slaying Holmes... and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things." And his mom responded, "You may do what you deem fit, but the crowds will not take this lightheartedly", he did kill him off in December 1893 so he could dedicate his time to more "important" works. Holmes and Professor Moriarty apparently plunged to their deaths together down the Reichenbach Falls in the story "The Final Problem". Public outcry forced him to bring Sherlock Holmes back in the "Adventure of the Empty House", it was explained that only Moriarty had fallen, but Holmes let people believe he'd temporarily died in order to keep behind the scenes from his other enemies. He appeared in a total of 56 short stories and four novels. And many more by other authors over the years.
Conan Doyle was found clutching his chest on July 7th, 1930. He'd died of a heart attack at the age of 71. The epitaph on his gravestone reads; "Steel True
Blade Straight
Arthur Conan Doyle
Knight
Patriot, Physician, & Man of Letters"
it's in the churchyard at Minstead in New Forest, Hampshire. From 1924 to 2004 the home he built was a hotel and restaurant, since then however it was bought to be preserved by his fans. Credit: Wikipedia Page.
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