Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Person Male Born 22/5/1859 Died 7/7/1930
Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to cross an Alpine pass on skis. Later an apostle of spiritualism and the paranormal. Died England of a heart attack. We understand his surname was Doyle, not Conan Doyle, though that is often used to refer to him.
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