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Marriages and family
2. Death

born as the third of ten siblings on 22

May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855.

"Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if

that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. The entry in which his baptism is recorded in the register of St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.


Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine. He then went on to Stonyhurst College until 1875.

at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working

in the town of Aston and in Sheffield.

While studying, Conan Doyle also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Chambers΄s Edinburg Journal before he was 20.

Following his term at university, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast.

in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton΄s Christmas Annual for 1887.

the English Stand Magazine. Interestingly enough, Robert Louis Stevenson

was able, even in faraway Samoa, to recognise the strong similarity between Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes: “My compliments on your very ingenious and very interesting adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ... Can this be my old friend Joe Bell?" Other authors sometimes suggest additional influences—for instance, the famous Edgard Allan Poe character C. Auguste Dupin.

(or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie". She suffered from

tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. The next year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. He had maintained a platonic relationship with Jean while his Louisa was still alive, out of loyalty to her. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940.

with his first wife—Mary Louise and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley,

known as Kingsley—and three with his second wife—Denis Percy Stewart, Adrian Malcolm and Jean Lena Annette.

Conan Doyle's family in New York 1922

pneumonia, which he contracted during his convalescence after being

seriously wounded during the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Brigadier-General Innes Doyle died, also from pneumonia, in February 1919.

England
He died of a heart attack at age 71.

His last words were directed toward his wife: "You are wonderful."