“I was much inclined to accept ... though my friends pictured me as winding up with a revolver at one ear and a razor at the other. However, the distance and my engagements presented a final bar.”
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.
science · British writer and physician (1859–1930) · physician · physician writer · novelist · essayist · playwright · screenwriter · science fiction writer · children's writer · crime fiction writer · short story writer · also Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir A. Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Doyle
Born 22 May 1859 · Died 7 July 1930 · Q35610
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The Guardian: ‘Boxing is in the blood’: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle and the prize ring
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Cricinfo: Arthur Conan Doyle Debut and last played matches in Tests, ODIs, T20Is and other formats
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Mshale: My Friend The Murderer And Other Mysteries By Arthur Conan Doyle | Full Audiobook Freiburg Vs Braga (ue8Ui6KdW7)
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Arthur Conan Doyle: 'For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to
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La Razón: Arthur Conan Doyle: el espiritista que hablaba con los difuntos
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Country Life: From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to T.S Eliot: London Library's most literary members go digital
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The Guardian: Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’
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The Guardian: Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle
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The Guardian: Houdini’s reappearing act: David Haig’s new play lays bare the magician’s dispute with Conan Doyle
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,009 times.
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Researchers at the Natural History Museum and Liverpool John Moores University analyzed DNA evidence showing that responsibility for the hoax lay with the amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson, who had originally "found"
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The High Court in London ruled in favour of those seeking to preserve the historic building, ordering that the redevelopment permission be quashed on the ground that it had not been obtained through proper procedures
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Was among the ten people selected by the Royal Mail for their "Eminent Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,635 times.
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Died 1930-07-07.
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“Tylko niezwykle nikczemny i podły człowiek nie jest opłakiwany przez żadną kobietę.”
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“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! (ang.)”
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“Opis: Sherlock Holmes do doktora Watsona.”
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“Opis: inspektor Lestrade do Sherlocka Holmesa.”
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“Opis: Henry Baskerville do doktora Watsona.”
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“Są ludzie, którzy sami nie mając geniuszu, posiadają talent pobudzania go u innych.”
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“Opis: Sherlock Holmes do doktora Mortimera.”
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“(…) Co jasne i oczywiste, budzi mniejsze przerażenie niż przypuszczenia i pogłoski.”
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“Intensywny wysiłek umysłowy ma to do siebie, że zaciera w pamięci ostatnie wydarzenia.”
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“Im dane wydarzenie jest bardziej dziwaczne i groteskowe, w tym większym stopniu zasługuje na dokładne zbadanie, a ten sam szczegół, który zdaje się komplikować sprawę, jeśli jest należycie rozważony i potraktowany, może wyjaśnić wszystkie niewiadome.”
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“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement, the placation of the Almighty by blood—all this is abhorrent to me. The spirit-guides do not insist upon these aspects of religion.”
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“Niektórzy ludzie, których natura nie obdarzyła geniuszem, posiadają niezwykłą moc jego stymulowania u innych.”
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“Na świecie jest wiele rzeczy oczywistych, których jednak nikt nigdy nie zauważa.”
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Doyle gave a filmed interview, in which he spoke about Sherlock Holmes and spiritualism
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Doyle laid the foundation stone for a Spiritualist Temple in Camden, London
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The Zancigs confessed that their mind reading act had been a trick; they published the secret code and all other details of the trick method they had used under the title "Our Secrets
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The psychical researcher Harry Price accused the "spirit photographer" William Hope of fraud
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Doyle travelled to Australia and New Zealand on spiritualist missionary work, and over the next several years, until his death, he continued his mission, giving talks about his spiritualist conviction in Britain, Europe,
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Doyle and the noted sceptic Joseph McCabe held a public debate at Queen's Hall in London, with Doyle taking the position that the claims of spiritualism were true
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Published his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation
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And Kingsley died on 28 October 1918 (from pneumonia contracted during his convalescence after being seriously wounded in the 1916 Battle of the Somme)
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At the height of the First World War, Doyle's belief in psychic phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be the psychic abilities of his children's nanny, Lily Loder Symonds
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(at a different site) came from the same jaw as that of the Piltdown Man, suggesting that he had planted them both
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Doyle was one of fifty-three leading British authors—including H
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On a family trip to the Jasper National Park in Canada, he designed a golf course and ancillary buildings for a hotel
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Was invited to referee the James Jeffries–Jack Johnson heavyweight championship fight in Reno, Nevada
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Wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors of that colony
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He had an additional three with his second wife: Denis Percy Stewart (1909–1955), who became the second husband of the Georgian noblewoman Nina Mdivani; Adrian Malcolm (1910–1970); and Jean Lena Annette (1912–1997).
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Awarded Order of the Medjidie (1907).
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The year after Louisa's death, he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie (1874–1940)
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Involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji, who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals in Great Wyrley
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Awarded Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John (1903).
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Doyle published his first Holmes short story in ten years, "The Adventure of the Empty House", in which it was explained that only Moriarty had fallen, but since Holmes had other dangerous enemies—especially Colonel Seba
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Whose purpose was discussion of crime and detection, criminals and criminology, and continues to this day as "Our Society", with membership numbers limited to 100
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1902).
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And was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1903
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Won Queen's South Africa Medal (1901).
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Doyle was one of three judges for the world's first major bodybuilding competition, which was organised by the "Father of Bodybuilding", Eugen Sandow
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In the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Doyle founded the Undershaw Rifle Club at his home, constructing a 100-yard range and providing shooting for local men, as the poor showing of British troops in the Boer War had led him to believe that the general popula
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In Edinburgh Central, and in 1906 in the Hawick Burghs, but was not elected
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Played for Edinburgh University RFC.
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He had met and fallen in love with Jean in 1897, but had maintained a platonic relationship with her while his first wife was still alive, out of loyalty to her.
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But had maintained a platonic relationship with her while his first wife was still alive, out of loyalty to her
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Awarded Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1895).
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When he commissioned an architect friend of his, Joseph Henry Ball, to build him a home, he played an active part in the design process
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In the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness
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In a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes
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“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”
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He had two with his first wife: Mary Louise (1889–1976) and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (1892–1918).
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Returned to it in 1902, and resigned again in 1911
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Became a founding member of the Hampshire Society for Psychical Research; in 1893, he joined the London-based Society for Psychical Research; and in 1894, he collaborated with Sir Sidney Scott and Frank Podmore in a s
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And the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) was the first of twenty-four monthly Holmes stories published in The Strand Magazine, for which Doyle became one of the most famous and well-paid authors of his time
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(on 26 January), he was initiated as a Freemason at the Phoenix Lodge No
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In Southsea, influenced by Major-General Alfred Wilks Drayson, a member of the Portsmouth Literary and Philosophical Society, Doyle began a series of investigations into the possibility of psychic phenomena and attended
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In 1885, Doyle married Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Hawkins (1857–1906).
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Doyle married Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Hawkins (1857–1906)
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“J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement”
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Doyle partnered with his former classmate George Turnavine Budd in a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice
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Was ship's surgeon on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast
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Studied at University of Edinburgh Medical School (1876–1881).
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Studied at Stella Matutina (1875–1876).
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Studied at Stonyhurst College (1870–1875).
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Studied at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (1868–1870).
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The family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place
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The family scattered because of Charles's growing alcoholism
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Born 1859-05-22.
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