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Arthur Conan Doyle

Died in 1930

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859, studied medicine in Edinburgh, embarked as a doctor on a whaler and then on a West African steamer, and opened a practice where patients were scarce, which left him time to write. He intervened in two famous miscarriages of justice, served as a doctor during the Boer War, and spent his last years defending spiritualism, to which he devoted part of his fortune and in which his reputation suffered. He died in 1930.

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