Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated at Stoneyhurst and Edinburgh University where he qualified as a doctor. He practised at Southsea from 1882-1890, but from that date he devoted himself entirely to writing. In later years, Doyle's increasing obsession with spiritualism clouded his judgement, he was knighted in 1902 and died in 1930.
