Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a journalist, novelist, and short-story writer, a scientific, medical, and spiritualist writer, and an autobiographer. His fame rests on his creation of the detective-hero Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures filled nine volumes when collected.
Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press.
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Milestones

22 May 1859

SACD was born at 11 Picardy Place in Edinburgh; he was the third in a large family, and the eldest boy.
Sources differ about the number of children. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says there were nine. Chris Redmond 's A Sherlock Holmes Handbook says there were ten, of whom seven lived to grow up.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press.
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6 September 1879

SACD , still a student, first reached print with a story, The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

December 1887

SACD 's story A Study in Scarlet appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. This marked the debut of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

31 August 1901

The Times advertised the approaching serialization of SACD 's Sherlock Holmes mystery novel The Hound of the Baskervilles in the Strand Magazine's September issue; the ODNB dates it 1902.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
31 August 1901): 10
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

7 July 1930

SACD died at his home, Windlesham near Crowborough in east Sussex, after being ill for several months.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Biography

Called Arthur as a child, he later became known by his third Christian name, Conan. He signed A. Conan Doyle, and in an age when most men used surnames Conan began to be seen as part of his surname, and when he was knighted in 1902 he became Sir Arthur. His children called themselves, as their surname, Conan Doyle.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press.
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Birth and Background