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	Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh to Charles Altamont Doyle and Mary Doyle.
		Conan Doyle was involved in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by the journalist E.
		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died of a heart attack in 1930, aged 71, and is buried in the Church Yard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, England.
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	MSN Encarta - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
		Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Stonyhurst College and the University of Edinburgh.
		Conan Doyle was so successful in his literary career that approximately five years after his first works were published he abandoned his medical practice to devote his entire time to writing.
		Conan Doyle served in the Boer War (1899-1902) as a physician, and on his return to England wrote the nonfiction books The Great Boer War (1900) and The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct (1902), attempting to justify England's participation in the fighting.
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	Arthur Conan Doyle - Books and Biography
		Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, as the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle.
		Doyle's mother was interested in literature, and she encouraged his son to take to books.
		Doyle had produced his first story, an illustrated tale of a man and a tiger, at the age of six.
	www.readprint.com /author-33/Arthur-Conan-Doyle (629 words)

	Arthur Conan Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Doyle was married to Louis Hawkins in 1885, and had two children with her; she was seriously ill eight years later and died in 1900.
		In The hound of Baskervilles (1902) Doyle narrated an early case of dead detective The ingenious murder weapon in the story is an animal.
	www.kultvirtualpress.com /Arthur_Conan_Doyle.html (505 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
		Although his stories were popular, Conan Doyle felt that he had yet to make a lasting name in English literature, and he referred to Holmes as taking his mind 'from better things'.
		Conan Doyle also published a number of non-fictional works, including, The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, and The British Campaign in France and Flanders, a six-volume history, which he completed in 1920.
		Conan Doyle married twice and died in 1930 after a heart attack.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/doyle_conan.shtml (331 words)

	Doyle, Arthur Conan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Doyle, Arthur Conan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Photograph of a man dressed as the Arthur Conan Doyle character Sherlock Holmes, with his trademark pipe and deerstalker hat.
		The character became so popular that Conan Doyle was forced by public demand to restore him to life after having killed him off in 1893.
		Doyle was born in Edinburgh, qualified as a physician, and from 1882 to 1890 practised in Southsea.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Doyle,%20Arthur%20Conan (368 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Arthur Conan Doyle
		During the early years of the twentieth century Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament as a Liberal Unionist, once in Edinburgh and once in the Border Burghs, but although he received a respectable vote he was not elected.
		He did, however, become one of the first Honorary Members of the Ski Club of Great Britain.Conan Doyle was involved even in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by the journalist Edmund Dene Morel and the diplomat Roger Casement.
		The second case—that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in 1908—excited Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was framed.
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	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted in 1902, there was some speculation that the honor was bestowed to recognize his achievement in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
		Conan Doyle wrote several volumes about the Great War between 1914 and 1920; from 1918 on, he became a self-styled authority and promoter of spiritualism, not only writing about it but also opening a spiritualist bookshop and museum.
		Conan Doyle, trained in medicine and with a sharp eye for scientific and logical plausibility, also wrote a number of science fiction stories.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/railway/age/doyle_bio.html (260 words)

	Arthur Conan Doyle
		Doyle himself was not a good example of rational personality: he believed in fairies and was interested in occultism.
		Arthus Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, as the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle.
		Doyle was knighted in 1902 and in 1900 and 1906 he also ran unsuccessfully for Parliament.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.19 (1118 words)

	The Perpetrator at Piltdown
		That Doyle has not been implicated in the hoax before now not only is a testament to the skill with which he appears to have perpetrated it, but it also explains why the case against him is circumstantial, intricate, even convoluted.
		Doyle was also fascinated with the field of phrenology and had made the acquaintance of the leading phrenologist in London, the American Jessie Fowler, who had an immense number and variety of skulls in her collection.
		Doyle, it must be said, genuinely believed in the scientific significance of the evidence pointing to the existence of early man. Indeed he composed a manuscript entitle "Human Origins," though it was never published.
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	SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: BIOGRAPHY OF A SPIRITUALIST
		Doyle, despite his love for cricket and soccer, was a good husband though and in 1889, their daughter Mary was born.
		Conan Doyle was in his early thirties when he decided to break with medicine and over the next ten years, he became increasingly more successful and and increasingly more of a public figure.
		Conan Doyle himself admired and respected the Boers, but his adherence to Britain and the Empire was unquestioning.
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	Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Arthur Conan Doyle was born May 22, 1859 at Picardy Place, Edinburgh.
		Doyle was educated in Jesuit schools and later studied at Edinburgh University, qualifying as a doctor in 1885.
		Doyle had already published two Holmes novels: A Study in Scarlet appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and The Sign of Four appeared in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in February 1890, but neither had achieved anything like the success the short stories were to have.
	www.yankeeweb.com /library/holmes/doylebio.html (368 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, 22nd May 1859, to Roman Catholic parents of Irish origin.
		Conan Doyle's long stories included medieval narratives of the fourteenth-century nomadic soldiery, of the Monmouth Rebellion and the Huguenots, of Regency England and of Arab revolt in the Sudan.
		Conan Doyle himself practised in Portsmouth as a doctor from 1882, but abandoned medicine for literature in 1891, moving to London, and later to Sussex and Essex.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/doyledsw.htm (431 words)

	The UnMuseum - Arthur Conan Doyle
		Conan Doyle was fearful that Houdini, and the other magicians attending, would take the opportunity to ridicule his spiritualistic beliefs.
		Many of the people at the meeting knew of Conan Doyle's beliefs and were aware that he owned a collection of "psychic photographs" (pictures supposedly showing ghosts, fairys, etc.) and may have connected them with Conan Doyle's comments and the motion picture equipment.
		Conan Doyle started by telling the audience that he would answer no questions about the movie they were about to see, but said, "These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /doyle.htm (630 words)

	The Doyle Era
		First, Doyle wrote a series of tales set in the Victorian Gold fields; this was precisely the setting of such Australian casebook writers as James Skipp Borlase and Mary Fortune.
		The Indian sect in the story is one of a series of "murderous conspiracies" in Doyle's work: a group of early religious cultists in "A Study in Scarlet", Moriarty and his gang, the KKK in "The Five Orange Pips", the nihilists, and the Molly McGuires in "The Valley of Fear".
		Doyle's fictions are structured as complex melodramas in which many groups of people, the villain, Holmes, and various innocent suspects, are all struggling in complex, interactive ways.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/doyleera.htm (8594 words)

	A Historic Profile of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and His Association with Spiritualism
		Doyle was born in the year 1859 of Irish parentage in Edinburgh.
		Referring to it in his "History of Spiritualism" Conan Doyle readily admits that "the sight of a world which was distraught with sorrow, and which he had so long pursued, were of immense practical importance and could no longer be regarded as a mere intellectual hobby or fascinating pursuit of a novel research.
		Estelle Roberts asserted that she saw clairvoyantly Conan Doyle in the chair and transmitted a personal message to the family which was accepted as evidential.
	www.geohanover.com /docs/profile.htm (1003 words)

	Arthur Conan Doyle - Biography and Works
		Arthur Conan Doyle was born to a family of Roman Catholics in Edinburgh, in 1859.
		Doyle married Louise Hawkins in 1884 and then in 1885 he graduated as a doctor from Edinburgh University.
		Doyle followed his first novel with The Sign of Four and then in 1891 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was incrementally published by the Strand Magazine.
	www.online-literature.com /doyle (436 words)

	James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
		Therefore, when he was confronted with the Cottingley fairies photos taken by two young girls, he reasoned that two adolescent females “from the artisan class” could not possibly deceive an aristocrat such as himself, and he convinced himself that the photos were genuine.
		And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not accustomed to being told that he was wrong.
		Houdini knew quite well that what he did was simple conjuring, that any person could thereby be fooled, and was astonished that Sir Arthur could not recognize or admit that fact.
	www.randi.org /encyclopedia/Conan%20Doyle,%20Sir%20Arthur.html (356 words)

	W.Bro. Yasha Beresiner - ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Spiritualist and Freemason
		Arthur Doyle — he only added the middle name Conan later in his life - was born into an Irish Catholic family at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland on 22 May 1859.
		By the time he left Stonyhurst, at the age of seventeen, Arthur had rejected his religion and embraced spiritualism, which was not to leave him even after his death in 1930.
		Arthur’s father’s passing was to become an event of significance.
	www.freemasons-freemasonry.com /beresiner10.html (2340 words)

	About The First Spiritual Temple
		The phenomena were, quite frankly, too amazing for Sir Arthur, and he underrated both the honesty of the medium and the intelligence of the sitters.
		It was during Sir Arthur's Presidency of the London Spiritualist Alliance that Mrs.
		Estelle Roberts, one of England's finest and most respected mediums, said that she saw clairvoyantly Conan Doyle in the chair and offered a personal message from the great writer to his family; they accepted the message as evidential.
	www.fst.org /doyle.htm (1566 words)

	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Biography Page 1
		Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur's father, a chronic alcoholic, was the only member of his family, who apart from fathering a brilliant son, never accomplished anything of note.
		Arthur loathed the bigotry surrounding his studies and rebelled at corporal punishment, which was prevalent and incredibly brutal in most English schools of that epoch.
		During those grueling years, Arthur's only moments of happiness were when he wrote to his mother, a regular habit that lasted for the rest of her life, and also when he practiced sports, mainly cricket, at which he was very good.
	www.sherlockholmesonline.org /Biography (362 words)

	Arthur Conan Doyle
		Arthur Conan Doyle, the son of Charles Doyle and Mary Foley, was born in Edinburgh on 22nd May 1859.
		On this voyage Conan Doyle nearly died of typhoid.
		His son, Kingsley Conan Doyle, joined the British Army and was wounded at the Somme.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jconan.htm (681 words)

	Sherlockian.Net: Arthur Conan Doyle
		ACD lived in Southsea, Birmingham and elsewhere, and practised as a doctor briefly.
		Knighted ("Sir Arthur") 1902 for his work in Boer War propaganda (particularly the pamphlet The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct) -- and, some said, because of the publication of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
		A Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection has been established at the Toronto Reference Library.
	www.sherlockian.net /acd (751 words)

	The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
		However, when Conan Doyle arrived in Switzerland in 1893 that was exactly the situation.
		In January of 1907 Conan Doyle walked into the lobby of a hotel.
		In a flash Conan Doyle knew that Edalji was innocent.
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	The Arthur Conan Doyle Society Home Page
		Earlier plans to move The Arthur Conan Doyle Society to a fully web-based operation have now changed, and publication of the Society's Journal, ACD, will continue for the foreseeable future.
		The Arthur Conan Doyle Society was founded in 1989 to bring together those people sharing a common interest in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his works, and to encourage new work and investigation.
		The Arthur Conan Doyle Society is not, in any way, connected with the organisation calling itself The Literary Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, nor does the Society agree with, or endorse, many of the claims made by that organisation on its web site.
	www.ash-tree.bc.ca /acdsocy.html (241 words)

	Arthur Conan Doyle Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859, educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh and was trained as a doctor.
		After a medical practice at Southsea between 1882 and 1890 in which he was only moderately successful, he took to writing.
		Indeed, fanatics of the series were so angered by Holmes's apparent death at the hands of arch-villain Moriarty that Doyle was forced into reviving the character who, by that time, was becoming something of a burden.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/5/182 (425 words)

	Conan doyle - Conan Doyle Manuscripts and Facsimiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Arthur Conan Doyle and his apology for his inaccurate portrayal of Mormons as villains in the very first Sherlock Holmes story By: Harold Schindler Date published: 04/10/1994
		A CD-ROM titled "The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", including all the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as ACD's other writings, is available for $95 US from Insight Engineering, PO Box 10785...
		The Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection is an independent group that works closely with the...
	sohutech.com /shtc/conan-doyle.htm (290 words)

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