In 1902, Doyle was knighted for his work in the military field hospitals in South Africa during the Boer War. These séances prompted Doyle to become a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) and to carry out an investigation of the medium Mrs. From 1885–88 Doyle participated in table tipping experiments at the house of General Drayson, a patient of his and a teacher at the Greenwich Naval Academy. In 1885, Doyle married Louise Hawkins, the sister of one of his patients. The first six Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in Strand Magazine in 1891 and The White Company, a historical novel, was also published that year. He moved to Upper Wimpole Street, off Harley Street in London, where he set up business as an eye specialist. After a number of short stories and non-fictional articles, Doyle published A Study in Scarlet in 1887. In June of 1882, he moved to Southsea, near Portsmouth in the south of England, where he stayed until 1891. From February to September of 1880, Doyle served as a surgeon on the Greenland whaler Hope, and in 1881–82 on the steamer Mayumba to West Africa. He was involved with Spiritualism for most of his life, and adopted it as his religion in 1918.ĭoyle attended Hodder College, Stonyhurst College, and Feldkirch College (Austria) before going to Edinburgh University to study medicine. Arthur became best known as a novelist and as the creator of literary detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859–1930) (religion, spiritualism, and occult)īorn in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was the third child and eldest son of ten siblings born to Charles Altamont Doyle and Mary (Foley) Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was closely involved with Spiritualism for most of his life. Sims, Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes (2017). Meyers, ed., The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader (2002) his autobiography (1924) biographies by O. In his later years he became an ardent spiritualist and wrote a History of Spiritualism (1926). Doyle also wrote two political pamphlets justifying Great Britain's actions in the South African War. His play A Story of Waterloo (1894) was one of Sir Henry Irving's notable successes. Doyle also wrote historical romances, including Micah Clarke (1889) and The White Company (1891). The Holmes cult has given rise to several notable clubs, of which the Baker Street Irregulars is perhaps the most famous. Watson, narrates most of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The brilliant and theatrical Holmes solves all his extraordinarily complex cases through ingenious deductive reasoning. Other works that involve the sleuthing of the great detective include The Sign of the Four (1890), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905), His Last Bow (1917), and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Doyle abandoned his medical practice in 1890 and devoted his time to writing. In 1887 the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. Educated at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he received a medical degree in 1881.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (kō`nən, kŏn`ən), 1859–1930, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, b.
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