![]() From 1868 to 1870, Doyle was educated at Hodder Place, a Jesuit preparatory school located at Stonyhurst, Lancashire. They received financial support from affluent uncles, who also financed Doyle's education. ![]() During his early years, Doyle's family had financial problems due to his father's struggles with depression and alcoholism. Doyle's paternal grandfather was the political cartoonist and caricaturist John Doyle (1797-1868). Through his father, Doyle was a nephew of the antiquarian James William Edmund Doyle (1822 - 1892), the illustrator Richard Doyle (1824-1883), and the gallery director Henry Edward Doyle (1827 -1893). Doyle's mother was Mary Foley (1837-1920). His father was Charles Altamont Doyle (1832 - 1893), a professional illustrator and water-colorist who is primarily remembered for fantasy-style paintings. In 1859, Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to an Irish Catholic family. Doyle's literary works have frequently been adapted into film and television. His other notable series were the "Professor Challenger" stories (1912-1929) about a scientist and explorer, and the "Brigadier Gerard" stories (1894-1910) about a French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. His most famous series of works consisted of the "Sherlock Holmes" stories (1887-1927), consisting of four novels and 56 short stories. ![]() Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer of Irish descent, considered a major figure in crime fiction.
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