Born in Edinburgh in 1859, Conan Doyle is best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories. Although a qualified doctor with his own practice in Portsmouth, he became a full time writer in 1891, with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes being published a year later.
Conan Doyle's first employment after graduating from Edinburgh University in 1881 was as a medical officer on a ship, the Mayumba, that sailed between Liverpool and West Africa. In 1914 he sailed into Liverpool from Montreal aboard the SS Megantic. He died in 1930.
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