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  1. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. [ 9 ] Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness. [ 10 ][ 11 ] Beginning at an early age, throughout his life Doyle wrote letters to his mother.

  2. The Conan Doyle Family. Arthur Conan Doyle was the eldest of son of nine siblings, seven of whom survived into adulthood. His sisters became governesses before marrying well. One of his sisters, Connie, married a friend and fellow author, Ernest Hornung, who created the gentleman thief, Raffles.

  3. Arthur Conan Doyle was part of a big family. He had 7 sisters and 1 brother. Unfortunately, a lot of relatives died during Conan Doyle lifetime : his father died in 1893, his first wife Touie died in 1906, his son Kingsley died in 1918, his brother Innes died in 1919, his beloved mother died in 1920, his brother in law Ernest W. Hornung died in ...

  4. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Charles Altamont Doyle, a Victorian artist and Mary Foley. His parents were of Irish-Catholic descent. His family was affluent and well respected but his father was a heavy drinker and hence he was supported by his wealthy uncles.

  5. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a...

  6. Birth, Family. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 may 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, Mary Josephine Foley , was Irish and descendant of the famous Percy family of Northumberland, in the line of Plantagenet.

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  8. The Conan Doyle family resided at 3 Tower Bank (now Figgate Bank), Portobello, Edinburgh. Arthur Conan Doyle (aged 5) wrote his first fiction : The Story of a Bengal Tiger. Arthur Conan Doyle lived with Mary Burton at Liberton Bank House, Edinburgh.

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