18+ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Young Pictures. She particularly delighted in telling her young son outlandish. Author arthur conan doyle wrote 60 mystery stories featuring the wildly popular detective character sherlock holmes and his loyal assistant watson.
Throughout doyle's childhood, his father, an artist and civil servant, had difficulty supporting the family and was later institutionalized for alcoholism. Sir arthur conan doyle was a scottish author, poet & physician. Sir arthur ignatius conan doyle was a scottish physician writer, most noted for his stories about the detective sherlock holmes, which are considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of professor challenger.
Charles altamont doyle, arthur's father, a chronic alcoholic, was a moderately successful artist, who apart from fathering a brilliant son, never accomplished anything of.
By 1876, graduating at the age of seventeen, arthur doyle, (as he was called, before adding his middle name conan to his surname), was a surprisingly normal young man. For his services he was knighted in 1902, becoming sir arthur conan doyle. Doyle's family (conan was his middle name, and it was only later in life that he began to use it as his surname) sent him to jesuit boarding schools to be educated, and he later entered the university of edinburgh. Arthur conan doyle was more successful as a writer than as a doctor.