Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Life And Work

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All of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's works Life, literary career and achievements were built off early experiences from childhood hardships and through his struggle for earning money working in different medical jobs. The name Arthur Conan Doyle came from a colony of linen weavers from France. Although both sides of sides of Arthur 's family are from Ireland, his family tree was hard to trace because the records were lost in the American Civil War. During a period of Arthur 's life, he thought that he was descended from Kind in Dubgall named Ulster. He even made a stained-glass window at one of his houses. But he eventually forgot the ideal.

Arthur 's father John Doyle was a Victorian artist. Selling many sketches about his different experiences. Including the time when he
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His father being extremely witty in his illustrations and courtesy in his manners. Arthur 's early remembrance if his mother Mary always included her amazing intellectual knowledge, and reading in daily work. Mary Conan always joined the Philosophical Institution.

Arthur hired a tutor, Mr. Walker, to help him prepare for the exam to get a scholarship for the Edinburgh University. But after applying and winning one of the scholarships, he found out that medical students were not eligible.

While Arthur was a medical student at Edinburgh University, chanterelle a professor at Wilson 's Newington Academy, murdered his wife. And some of Arthur 's teachers helped the arrest by providing pharmacological and forensic evidence at the killer 's trial. Arthur admitted that he was an average student, even though he was awarded his bachelor of Medicine degree in 1881. Sir Robert Christison, a professor at Edinburgh University helped shift the department 's focus from anatomy and surgery to plants and practical pharmacology and his work greatly influenced Arthur 's famous detective who always used plants and things in his investigations. Although Christison 's advancements in scientific study

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