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Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859; he was educated at Stonyhurst School, spent a year in Austria and then took a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1885. In Jun 1882 he went to Portsmouth where he began a medical practice in Southsea: at first it wasn’t very successful so Conan Doyle began writing stories while waiting for patients. A Study in Scarlet, the first work featuring the character of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1887.
During the South African war (1899-1902) Doyle served for a few months as senior physician at a field hospital. In 1900 and 1906 he ran unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. He was knighted in 1902. Fourteen months after his wife died, Conan Doyle married in 1907 his second wife, Jean Leckie. He dedicated himself in spiritualistic studies after the death of his son Kingsley from wounds incurred in World War I. An example of these is The coming of fairies, in which he supported the existence of "little people" and spent more than a million dollars on their cause. He also became president of several important spiritualist organizations.
