Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to an English
father, Charles Altamont Doyle, and an Irish mother, Mary Foley, who had married in
1855.] Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound
surname is uncertain. Conan Doyle's father was an artist, as were his paternal uncles (one
of whom was Richard Doyle), and his paternal grandfather John Doyle.
Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school St. Mary's Hall,
Stonyhurst, at the age of eight. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, but by the time he
left the school in 1875, he had rejected Christianity to become an agnostic.
From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a
period working in the town of Aston (now a district of Birmingham). While studying, he
also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Chambers's
Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. Following his term at university, he served as a
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