The Passing Show: Men of Our Time
The Passing Show: Men of Our Time, Topics of the Day is an article published in The Weekly Telegraph (Sheffield) on 19 july 1890.
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Below is the Conan Doyle part only
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Dr. A. Conan Doyle, the author of the popular novel, "The Firm of Girdlestone," is only thirty-one. Born at Edinburgh, he comes of a well-known stock. His father, Charles Doyle, was an artist, the son of John Doyle, the celebrated caricaturist, better known as H. B.," and brother to James Doyle, the historian, Henry Doyle, C.B., director of the Irish Academy, and Richard Doyle, formerly of Punch Dr. Doyle was educated at Stonyhurst College, and after a year's study in Germany, entered as a medical student at Edinburgh University, where he took his degree of doctor of medicine. After a visit to the Arctic Seas, and another to the West Coast of Africa, he settled at Southsea in 1882, and has been in practice there ever since. His literary career began when he was but eighteen. He began by contributing short tales to the magazines, including Cornhill and Temple Bar.
