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5/22/2006, 05:59 AM
May 22, 1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born
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It's the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
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Dr Doyle
Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive reasoning power...which is a tremendous asset to have if you happen to be a doc. Bell partly inspired Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes years later.
After medical school, Doyle moved to London, where his slow medical practice left him ample free time to write. See, by all accounts Doyle was a pretty decent physician, his heart just wasn't in it because he found it all somewhat boring. His first Sherlock Holmes story written in his spare time, A Study in Scarlet, was published in the periodical Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887.
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"Holmesian" paraphenalia...the deerstalker cap, calabash pipe and magnifying glass.
Starting in 1891, a series of Holmes stories appeared in The Strand magazine. Holmes enabled Doyle to leave his medical practice in 1891 and devote himself to writing, but the author soon grew weary of his creation -- methinks we are starting to see a pattern here.;)
In The Final Problem, he killed off both Holmes and his nemesis, Dr. Moriarty, only to resuscitate Holmes later due to popular demand. In 1902, after having traveled off to observe the Boer War raging in South Africa, Doyle was knighted for his work in a British army field hospital there.
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British actor Sir Basil Rathbone in his most famous role as Sherlock Holmes
In addition to dozens of Sherlock Holmes stories and several novels, Doyle wrote history, pursued whaling, and engaged in many adventures and athletic endeavors. After his son died in World War I, Doyle became a dedicated spiritualist. He died in 1930.
Note: Doyle's contribution to American schoolkid culture is found chiefly in his inspiration for the sarcastic remark made after hearing someone state something painfully obvious, "No sh-t Sherlock!";)
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It's the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
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Dr Doyle
Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive reasoning power...which is a tremendous asset to have if you happen to be a doc. Bell partly inspired Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes years later.
After medical school, Doyle moved to London, where his slow medical practice left him ample free time to write. See, by all accounts Doyle was a pretty decent physician, his heart just wasn't in it because he found it all somewhat boring. His first Sherlock Holmes story written in his spare time, A Study in Scarlet, was published in the periodical Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887.
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"Holmesian" paraphenalia...the deerstalker cap, calabash pipe and magnifying glass.
Starting in 1891, a series of Holmes stories appeared in The Strand magazine. Holmes enabled Doyle to leave his medical practice in 1891 and devote himself to writing, but the author soon grew weary of his creation -- methinks we are starting to see a pattern here.;)
In The Final Problem, he killed off both Holmes and his nemesis, Dr. Moriarty, only to resuscitate Holmes later due to popular demand. In 1902, after having traveled off to observe the Boer War raging in South Africa, Doyle was knighted for his work in a British army field hospital there.
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British actor Sir Basil Rathbone in his most famous role as Sherlock Holmes
In addition to dozens of Sherlock Holmes stories and several novels, Doyle wrote history, pursued whaling, and engaged in many adventures and athletic endeavors. After his son died in World War I, Doyle became a dedicated spiritualist. He died in 1930.
Note: Doyle's contribution to American schoolkid culture is found chiefly in his inspiration for the sarcastic remark made after hearing someone state something painfully obvious, "No sh-t Sherlock!";)
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