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Born Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
(1859-05-22)22 May 1859
Edinburgh, Scotland
(1859-05-22)22 May 1859
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 7 July 1930(1930-07-07) (aged 71)
Crowborough, Sussex, England
Crowborough, Sussex, England
Occupation Writer
physician
physician
Born Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
(1859-05-22)22 May 1859
Edinburgh, Scotland
(1859-05-22)22 May 1859
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 7 July 1930(1930-07-07) (aged 71)
Crowborough, Sussex, England
Crowborough, Sussex, England
Occupation Writer
physician
physician
Wikipedia
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia
November 28, 2025 - Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr.
NYTimes
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Conan Doyle Dead From Heart Attack
July 7, 2025 - LONDON, July 7.--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and a noted spiritist, died today at his home, Windlesham, in Crowborough, Sussex. He was 71 years old · Sir Arthur had been ill from heart trouble for two months, but was making good progress against the malady until last ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has come back from the dead and to write more Holmes. He wants to know what the fans want. What do you want to see in his post-mortem works?
If Doyle came back from the dead only to find out people wanted him to write more Holmes stories, he’d probably kill himself again. More on reddit.com
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December 29, 2024TIL that Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote a letter to 5 of his friends saying "We are discovered. Flee at once." One of the friends disappeared and was never heard from again.
TIL this didn't happen. More on reddit.com
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December 21, 2011In the early 1900s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes creator/writer) was called upon to help solve a real life murder. His help kept an innocent man from life in prison.
He also helped exonerate a man convicted of cattle mutilations More on reddit.com
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July 25, 2021"A Study in Scarlet": Did Arthur Conan Doyle personally have a problem with Mormons?
I can't comment on Doyle's individual experiences with Mormonism, but the church was certainly well-known in Britain at this time. If you read the accounts of Victorian travellers who visited America you'll generally find sections on Mormonism - it was one of the recurring topics that almost all tourists felt compelled to comment on (others included the organisation of American hotels, Niagara Falls, the Chicago meat industry, American slang, the country's advertisers, and the manners of the American people). I get the sense from reading Doyle's work that he was a keen observer of America (it crops up regularly in the Holmes stories), so I'm sure that he would have encountered these descriptions of the church. Mormonism was also a favourite topic of American humorists like Mark Twain and Artemus Ward whose work was widely circulated in Britain. If you want to see an example of this literature, take a look at: Artemus Ward's Among the Mormons A lecture (essentially a stand-up show) that Ward delivered in London Mark Twain's Roughing It This is just the tip of the iceberg - there are hundreds of other texts and situations in which a literary man like Doyle could have encountered representations of the church. There were also quite a few followers of the religion in Britain during the middle of the nineteenth century, through I believe that many of them emigrated to America rather than establish the church at home. Either way, we shouldn't be surprised that Doyle was able to form an opinion on the church's teachings - however, I'll have to leave it to an expert on the writer to explain his conclusions. More on reddit.com
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June 16, 2013The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
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Death of Conan Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
April 14, 2023 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died at Crowborough this morning.
Tattimole
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11 things you never knew about Arthur Conan Doyle — Sherlock Holmes Tartan
May 27, 2021 - On 7 July, it was 91 years since the death of Arthur Conan Doyle. He died in his garden at home in Crowborough, East Sussex, in 1930 at the age of 71.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
March 5, 2019 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle remained an ardent Spiritualist for the rest of his life. Returning home after a grueling tour of Scandinavia and Holland in 1929, he suffered a debilitating heart attack and died several months later.
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Conan Doyle – The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
Doyle died on July 7th, 1930 from heart disease at his home; Windlesham, in the town of Crowborough in East Sussex Conan Doyle’s other publications include non-fiction, plays, verse, memoirs, short stories, and several historical novels and ...
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BBC - History - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle died of a heart attack on 7 July 1930.
The Imperiia Project
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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
On July 13, 1930, thousands of people filled London’s Royal Albert Hall for a séance during which Estelle Roberts, the spiritualist medium, claimed to have contacted Sir Arthur.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Arthur Conan Doyle | Biography, Books, Sherlock Holmes, Death, Fairies, & Facts | Britannica
1 month ago - On July 13, 1930, thousands of people filled London’s Royal Albert Hall for a séance during which Estelle Roberts, the spiritualist medium, claimed to have contacted Sir Arthur.
TheCollector
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The Eventful Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | TheCollector
July 15, 2023 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died suddenly of a heart attack at age 71 at his home in East Sussex. In many ways, his life was a series of apparent contradictions. Educated at private, fee-paying schools, his childhood was marked by financial instability ...
The Guardian
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From the archive, 8 July 1930: Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Guardian
March 26, 2020 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who died yesterday, will be for ever associated with the detective novel. He created Sherlock Holmes, and we all know Sherlock Holmes very well indeed. The fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at one time a politician ...
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When Arthur Conan Doyle Killed Sherlock Holmes | by Nicole Bianchi | The Writing Cooperative
April 8, 2017 - “I was glad to withdraw Holmes before the public were too weary of him,” Arthur Conan Doyle wrote to a journalist in 1927, several years before Doyle’s death.
Reddit
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r/SherlockHolmes on Reddit: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has come back from the dead and to write more Holmes. He wants to know what the fans want. What do you want to see in his post-mortem works?
December 29, 2024 -
This is a hypothetical question, btw. Doyle is still dead. Maybe Doyle went to hell and writing Holmes stories for eternity is his punishment.
So, what I'd like...
I always want more Lestrade, but I'd really like a follow up to the Gregson v Lestrade rivalry from A Study in Scarlet.
Medical based mystery/action for Watson to take a leading role in. Maybe a mysterious break out of an illness.
A touch of family backstory and interaction might be fun. Not, like, going into some giant tragic backstory with an evil secret sister. Maybe Watson a niece or nephew that he didn't know about who comes for help. Or a light-hearted, low stakes family reunion story where Holmes and Mycroft are emotionally blackmailed into visiting their aggressively normal cousins for Christmas while secretly trying to investigate a spy operating nearby.
Holmes & Watson end up investigating a case in a new, interesting locale outside Britain.
Holmes & Watson adopt a pet involved in a case. Because it would be cute.
Mrs. Hudson is involved significantly in a case, whether as a client or ally.
Sick or exhausted Holmes has to solve an urgent case, hampered by his physical limitations, while poor Watson tries his best to help while keeping Holmes from collapsing.
A high action mystery with lots of Holmes getting a chance to utilize martial arts and Watson calling upon his past rugby abilities. The mystery involve lots of deductions based on unarmed combat. ("Ah, Watson, an injury like this would never be inflicted by a heavyweight boxer using Giant Joe's signature technique.") 'The Shounen Anime Episodes'.
One bigger mystery slowly unraveled as a subplot through several short, episodic mysteries.
(....Maybe just a little less racism please? 😩 Pretty please?)
The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
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Obituaries - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Sir A. Conan Doyle Dead (8 july 1930, The Londonderry Sentinel) Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8 july 1930, Belfast News-Letter)
Undiscovered Scotland
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived from 22 May 1859 to 7 July 1930. Although by training a doctor, he was also a highly successful author whose name will forever be associated with that of his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.
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When did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle die?
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The Daily Gardener
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Remembering British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Love of Gardening - The Daily Gardener Podcast
October 13, 2024 - On this day, British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died.
EBSCO
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Arthur Conan Doyle | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
Doyle fell ill with heart disease in 1929 and died in 1930 at his home, Windlesham, where he was buried. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s biographers all characterize him as a late Victorian type.
Wisdom Words
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Wisdom on Death and the Afterlife - Wisdom Words
August 18, 2017 - Doyle died in July 1930. For 18 months thereafter, he appeared in a number of fully monitored and documented séances. The medium was Grace Cooke; the wisdom disseminated by Doyle from the other side via automatic writing was recorded by Cooke’s ...