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 Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in [|Edinburgh], Scotland, to an English father of Irish descent, [|Charles Altamont Doyle] , and an Irish mother, née Mary Foley. His parents were married in 1855. [|[2]] Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound [|surname] (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. The entry in which his baptism is recorded in the register of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and the simple 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather. [|[3]] Conan Doyle was sent to the [|Roman Catholic] [|Jesuit] preparatory school [|Hodder Place], [|Stonyhurst] , at the age of nine. He then went on to [|Stonyhurst College], but by the time he left the school in 1875, he had rejected [|Christianity] to become an [|agnostic]. From 1876 to 1881, he studied [|medicine] at the [|University of Edinburgh], including a period working in the town of [|Aston] (now a district of [|Birmingham] ) and in Sheffield. [|[4]] While studying, he also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in [|Chambers's Edinburgh Journal] before he was 20. [|[5]] Following his term at university, he served as a ship's doctor on a voyage to the [|West African] coast. He completed his [|doctorate] on the subject of [|tabes dorsalis] in 1885. [|[6]] [ [|edit] ] Employment and the origins of Sherlock Holmes   Sherlock Holmes (right) and Dr Watson, by [|Sidney Paget]. In 1882, he joined former classmate George Budd as his partner at a medical practice in [|Plymouth], [|[7]] but their relationship proved difficult, and Conan Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice. [|[8]] Arriving in [|Portsmouth] in June of that year with less than £10 to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, [|Southsea]. [|[9]] The practice was initially not very successful; while waiting for patients, he again began writing stories. His first significant work was [|A Study in Scarlet], which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor [|Joseph Bell] , to whom Conan Doyle wrote "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes. ... [R]ound the centre of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man." [|[10]] Future short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the English [|Strand Magazine]. Interestingly enough, [|Robert Louis Stevenson] was able, even in faraway Samoa, to recognise the strong similarity between Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes: "[M]y compliments on your very ingenious and very interesting adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ... [C]an this be my old friend Joe Bell?" [|[11]] Other authors sometimes suggest additional influences—for instance, the famous [|Edgar Allan Poe] character, [|C. Auguste Dupin]. [|[12]] While living in [|Southsea], he played [|football] for an amateur side, Portsmouth Association Football Club, as a goalkeeper, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. [|[13]] (This club disbanded in 1894 and had no connection with the [|Portsmouth F.C.] of today, which was founded in 1898.) Conan Doyle was also a keen [|cricketer], and between 1899 and 1907 he played 10 [|first-class] matches for the [|MCC]. His highest score was 43 against [|London County] in 1902. He was an occasional bowler who took just one first-class wicket (although one of high pedigree - it was [|W.G. Grace] ). [|[14]] Also a keen golfer, Conan Doyle was elected captain of Crowborough Beacon Golf Club, [|East Sussex], for the year 1910. [ [|edit] ] Marriage and family   <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Portrait of Arthur Conan Doyle by [|Sidney Paget], 1897 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In 1885, he married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie", who suffered from [|tuberculosis] and died on 4 July 1906. [|[15]] He married Jean Elizabeth Leckie in 1907, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. He had maintained a [|platonic relationship] with her while his first wife Louisa was still alive, out of loyalty to her. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Conan Doyle had five children, two with his first wife (1) Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976) and (2) Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918), and three with his second wife, (3) Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of [|Georgian] Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 – 19 February 1987; former sister-in-law of [|Barbara Hutton] ), (4) [|Adrian Malcolm] (1910 – 1970) and (5) [|Jean Lena Annette] (1912 – 1997). <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">[ [|edit] ] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Death of Sherlock Holmes <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In 1890, Conan Doyle studied the [|eye] in [|Vienna] ; he moved to London in 1891 to set up a practice as an [|ophthalmologist]. He wrote in his [|autobiography] that not a single patient crossed his door. This gave him more time for writing, and in November 1891 he wrote to his mother: "I think of slaying Holmes ... and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things." His mother responded, saying, "You may do what you deem fit, but the crowds will not take this lightheartedly." In December 1893, he did so in order to dedicate more of his time to more "important" works—his [|historical novels]. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Holmes and Moriarty fighting over the Reichenbach Falls. Art by Sidney Paget. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Holmes and [|Moriarty] apparently plunged to their deaths together down the [|Reichenbach Falls] in the story " [|The Final Problem] ". Public outcry led him to bring the character back; Conan Doyle returned to the story in "The Adventure of the Empty House", with the explanation that only Moriarty had fallen but, since Holmes had other dangerous enemies, especially [|Colonel Sebastian Moran], he had arranged to be temporarily "dead" also. Holmes ultimately appeared in a total of 56 [|short stories] and four Conan Doyle [|novels] (he has since appeared in [|many novels and stories by other authors] ). <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">[ [|edit] ] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Political campaigning <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Arthur Conan Doyle's house in [|South Norwood], London <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Following the [|Boer War] in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century and the condemnation from around the world over the United Kingdom's conduct, Conan Doyle wrote a short pamphlet titled, The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, which justified the UK's role in the Boer war and was widely translated. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Conan Doyle believed that it was this pamphlet that resulted in his being [|knighted] in 1902 and appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of [|Surrey]. He also, in 1900, wrote the longer book, [|The Great Boer War]. During the early years of the 20th century, Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament as a [|Liberal Unionist], once in Edinburgh and once in the [|Hawick Burghs] , but although he received a respectable vote, he was not elected. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Conan Doyle was involved in the campaign for the reform of the [|Congo Free State], led by the journalist [|E.D. Morel] and the diplomat [|Roger Casement]. During 1909, he wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors in that country. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement and it is possible that together with [|Bertram Fletcher Robinson], [|[16]] they inspired several characters in the novel, [|The Lost World] (1912). <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">He broke with both when Morel became one of the leaders of the [|pacifist] movement during the [|First World War], and when Casement was convicted of [|treason] against the UK during the [|Easter Rising]. Conan Doyle tried, unsuccessfully, to save Casement from the [|death penalty], arguing that he had been driven mad and was not responsible for his actions. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">[ [|edit] ] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Miscarriages of justice <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Conan Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes they were accused of. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named [|George Edalji], who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It was partially as a result of this case that the [|Court of Criminal Appeal] was established in 1907, so not only did Conan Doyle help George Edalji, his work helped establish a way to correct other [|miscarriages of justice]. The story of Conan Doyle and Edalji is told in fictional form in [|Julian Barnes] ' 2005 [|novel], [|Arthur & George]. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The second case, that of [|Oscar Slater], a German [|Jew] and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in [|Glasgow] in 1908, excited Conan Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was framed. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">[ [|edit] ] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritualism <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">After the death of his wife Louisa in 1906, and the death of his son Kingsley, his brother Innes, his two brothers-in-law (one of whom was [|E. W. Hornung], the creator of the literary character [|Raffles] ), and his two nephews shortly after [|World War I] , Conan Doyle sank into depression. He found solace supporting [|Spiritualism] and its alleged scientific proof of existence beyond the grave. In particular he favoured [|Christian Spiritualism], and encouraged the [|Spiritualists' National Union] to accept an eighth precept, that of following the teachings and example of [|Jesus of Nazareth]. [|[17]] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Kingsley Doyle died from pneumonia on 28 October 1918, which he contracted during his convalescence after being seriously wounded during the 1916 [|Battle of the Somme]. Brigadier-General Innes Doyle died in February 1919, also from pneumonia. Sir Arthur became involved with Spiritualism to the extent that he wrote a [|Professor Challenger] novel on the subject, The Land of Mist. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies, taken by Elsie Wright in July 1917. One of the five photographs. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">His book The Coming of the Fairies (1921) shows he was apparently convinced of the veracity of the [|Cottingley Fairies] photographs (which were exposed as a hoax decades later), which he reproduced in the book, together with theories about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits. In his The History of Spiritualism (1926), Conan Doyle praised the [|psychic] phenomena and spirit materialisations produced by [|Eusapia Palladino] and [|Mina "Margery" Crandon]. [|[18]] His work on this topic was one of the reasons that one of his short story collections, [|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes], was banned in the [|Soviet Union] in 1929 for supposed [|occultism]. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">[<span style="color: #002ebb; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|citation needed] ] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> This ban was later lifted. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">[<span style="color: #002ebb; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|when?] ] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> Russian actor [|Vasily Livanov] later received an [|Order of the British Empire] for his portrayal of [|Sherlock Holmes]. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Conan Doyle was friends for a time with the American magician [|Harry Houdini], who himself became a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement in the 1920s following the death of his beloved mother. Although Houdini insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery (and consistently attempted to expose them as frauds), Conan Doyle became convinced that Houdini himself possessed supernatural powers, a view expressed in Conan Doyle's The Edge of the Unknown. Houdini was apparently unable to convince Conan Doyle that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two. [|[18]] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> [|Richard Milner], an American historian of science, has presented a case that Conan Doyle may have been the perpetrator of the [|Piltdown Man] hoax of 1912, creating the counterfeit [|hominid] [|fossil] that fooled the scientific world for over 40 years. Milner says that Conan Doyle had a motive, namely revenge on the scientific establishment for debunking one of his favourite psychics, and that [|The Lost World] contains several encrypted clues regarding his involvement in the hoax. [|[19]] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> [|Samuel Rosenberg] 's 1974 book [|Naked is the Best Disguise] purports to explain how Conan Doyle left, throughout his writings, open clues that related to hidden and suppressed aspects of his mentality. Cesar Cavazos #5 7G

In 1882 & 1890 he became a doctor in Inglaterra.

He studied in escarlata, he would go in the 68 storys where it one of the best detectives of ever, Sherlock Holmes

The autor create the Dr. Watson.

In July of 1891 he start tu public the maggazine strand magazin.

In 1893, tired of Sherlock, he decided to let go away ficcion, but then he need to star again because of the people that like Sherlock Holmes with the Hound of Baskerville.

The autor suffer alot because of the dead of this bigger sun in the war and he star to caracterize and to make lots of things in another things he also write

4 years after he was dead they publish they biography

Cesar Cavazos #5 7G The Hounds of Baskerville

It is about that first Watson & Sherlom Homes found like a pergaminim, that it has been wrote by Charles Baskerville befote he was dead. Dr. Mortimer start t oread the paper with big voice and very loud. When he finished he start to see Sherlock Holmes he take out a newspaper he had on the pocket & start to explain why Sir Charles of Baskerville die. Then he finish and he put it away. Sherlock Holmes, Watson and the Dr. Mortimer start to talk what to do with the last inherit of the Money of the baskervilles, they do not know what to do so they Left it in the Baskervilles house even tough they have already been dead all the family. Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry's house Sherlom Homes, there was also Watson, Sir Henry gives a letter to Sherlom was tozos check with the newspaper and read: "Stay away from the moor, if you want to save your life." The pieces were made of The Times. Mortimer and Henry were Sherlom and Watson noticed that someone was following them, a man, but they followed them, but to Henry. Watson and Holmes go to the post office and tell a man to call Cartwright, Holmes sends all hotels looking for some pieces of paper.

Then mr Sherlock Holmes make company to the airport to Mr Watson, so he go to Devonshire. Then in the way Dr. Watson, Stapleton, and his sister star to talk about the dog. Then when he where there he start like to get messages from Holmes telling him what to do. The secret of Mr Barrymore is that the country's most famous criminal was the brother of Ms. Barrymore, he hid in the wilderness and every other night I had something to eat. Watson and Henry came to the fugitive, were heard howling in a hound. The fugitive ran over them and disappeared into the eternal darkness of the night. Then Watson start to figure out that the butler know more about the Sir Charles Baskerville dead. So he go with him and he make the butler tell him, he said that he had a wife.

Watson went to see Mrs. LL, as you get started asking, then went to the father, Watson and his father saw a person who was hiding among the huts and there he found the hut where the man, that man Sherlome Colmes was and knew that was Watson.

Then sherlome and Watson start talking then Sherlome hears the sound of the dog like if he was parking so he went to look and they saw that the man was Dressed up like Henry Baskerville & they thought it was him. Sherlome believes the murderer is Stapleton. But when I went around the body, they realized that Sir Henry was not dead but the criminal. Then came the naturalist Stapleton tried to hide. Then sherlome and Watson star talking to him, they were talking about things that they have happened. Sherlome Holmes and Watson went to spy on Stapleton, when Henry left the house a large dog started chasing him, Holmes was killed. Sherlome and Watson began to search the house and found the room Sra.Stapleton, her husband had got a beating. She tells them where her husband. They went into the bog and found there only remains of bones, a dog chain and the shoe was lost in London that Sir Henry. Sherlome Holmes told Watson as he had discover the case. Hi 7G students!<span style="color: #1b00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

The Hound of the Baskerville's

For this period, we are going to work in teams in the reading project of The Hound of the Baskerville's. The teams are going to be in the following way:

Team #1 List numbers: 5, 6, 8, 11, 19 Team #2 List numbers: 1, 14, 17, 18 Team #3 List numbers: 2, 4, 13, 24, 30 Team #4 List numbers: 12, 15, 21, 28 Team #5 List numbers: 10, 16, 20, 22 Team #6 List numbers: 9, 23, 25, 27 Team #7 List numbers: 3, 7, 26, 29

__All of you will have to read the story and do a summary in APA format of at least 1 page and a half. This is going to be 50% of your grade.__ The other activity is going to be in teams. Each team member will have a special assignment.