Il mastino dei Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle

The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. She suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as 'Touie'. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885. Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. His first published story appeared in ' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal' before he was 20. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as 'Conan Doyle', the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain.

His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Il mastino dei Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle