ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Arthur Conan Doyle was a writer,
most famous for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes. After studying
medicine in his native Edinburgh Conan Doyle moved to London in 1891 to
set up an ophthalmic practice. However it was a different aspect of his
medical training that was to make his name. HIs professor in Edinburgh,
Dr Joseph Bell, had had an obsessively meticulous eye for detail in
diagnosing his patients. This inspired Conan Doyle to create the
character of Sherlock Holmes. The stories were published in Strand
magazine from 1891. Conan Doyle also wrote the Lost World - the first
work of dinosaur fiction. Sir Arthur was a firm believer in spiritualism
and was famously hoodwinked by a doctored photograph purporting to show
two girls talking to fairies in their garden.
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Matt Brown is
editor-at-large of Londonist, a website about London and everything in
it. He was formerly an editor at Nature Publishing Group specialising
in London's scientific endeavours. As a regular quizmaster and trivia
buff, expect a talk filled with unusual anecdotes and 'I never knew
that' moments. |
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