Guide Note
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author who created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Fast Facts
- Full name: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
- Born: May 22, 1859
- Birth place: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Graduated from the University of Edinburgh]
- Published the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887
- Knighted in 1902
- Died: July 7, 1930
- Cause of death: heart attack
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"I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something."1
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