He exhausts his savings and is made aware of someone looking to share lodgings. Watson, on leave due to injury sustained during the second Afghan War, returns to London without friends or relatives in town. A Study in Scarlet was his first story and novel and introduced the characters of Holmes and Watson and included how they met. John Watson, a fellow Southsea doctor and Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society member who served time in Manchuria, received the honour of having Holmes' partner named for him.Doyle worked backwards from the solution of a case to create his stories. Sir Henry Littlejohn, who taught forensic medicine to Doyle also made a large impression and contributed to the development of Holmes' character.As far as Holmes' name, his last name may have been based on American jurist and fellow doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes and his first name may have come from Alfred Sherlock, a prominent violinist of his time. Bell had the uncanny ability to reveal a patient's symptoms, diagnose patients and report on their origins before they would speak a word to him about their afflictions. Doyle himself was an admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and Emile Gaboriau.In developing his own literary character, Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on Doctor Joseph Bell, a surgeon and teacher he had studied with while attending Edinburgh University. Doyle's father was an architect, designer and book illustrator. Creativity was apparent in Doyle's ancestry: his grandfather was a famous caricaturist and his uncle was a well-known illustrator. After graduation Doyle practiced medicine until 1891, when he became a full time writer.
Doyle's mother kept a boarding house.Doyle was educated in Jesuit schools and later studied at Edinburgh University, qualifying as a doctor in 1885.
His father suffered from epilepsy and alcoholism and was institutionalised. You are here: Home > Conan Doyle Conan DoyleĪrthur Conan Doyle was born on at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle.
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