Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1880 - On his death a complete set of John Doyle’s caricatures went to the Print Room of the British Museum. Their value must be considerable today, since four drawings by John Doyle were bought for a thousand guineas in 1880, and twelve years later three more were acquired for the same sum.
26th February 1880 - Conan Doyle sets sail onboard the Hope. He accepted a job as a surgeon on the whaling ship and spent seven months in the Arctic. In the latter part of 1880 he returned to Aston in Birmingham.
August 1881 - After his spell at Dr Ratcliffe Hoare’s Doyle returned to Edinburgh in early 1881 and took his degree in August 1881, as he said, “with fair but not notable distinction.” He then makes a second voyage as ship’s doctor, this time on a cargo steamer heading for West Africa, nearly dying of fever en route.
1882 - Doyle became the medical officer of the Mayumba then he returned to England. He tells his family that he has lost his Catholic faith.
The enigmatic Dr George Turnavine Budd, who Doyle had first met when the two were students in Edinburgh, invited him to become his partner in a medical practice at Plymouth. Their relationship was a turbulent one, and ended with Doyle moving. Conan Doyle set up his first independent practice in Southsea Hampshire.
He picked a house called 1 Bush Villa, Elm Grove, Southsea (later renamed Doyle House by the owners: destroyed in the Blitz in 1941) at a rental of £40 a year plus another £10 in taxes, hung up his carefully burnished brass plate and embarked on a practice that was neither very exacting nor very rewarding: he made £154 the first year, £250 the second, and never more than £300. When the income-tax paper arrived that first year, Conan Doyle filled it up to show he was not liable. The authorities returned the form with the words, “Most unsatisfactory” scrawled across it. Conan Doyle wrote, “I entirely agree” and sent the form back to the authorities. The practice was slow to grow, and to while away the hours he began to develop his interest in the writing of adventure stories.
1881 - After his spell at Dr Ratcliffe Hoare’s Doyle returned to Edinburgh in early 1881 and took his degree in August 1881, as he said, “with fair but not notable distinction.” He then makes a second voyage as ship’s doctor, this time on a cargo steamer heading for West Africa, nearly dying of fever en route.
1882 - Doyle becames the medical officer of the Mayumba. He tells his family that he has lost his Catholic faith.
The enigmatic Dr George Turnavine Budd, who Doyle had first met when the two were students in Edinburgh, invited him to become his partner in a medical practice at Plymouth. Their relationship was a turbulent one, and ended with Doyle moving. Conan Doyle set up his first independent practice in Southsea Hampshire.
He picked a house called 1 Bush Villa, Elm Grove, Southsea (later renamed Doyle House by the owners: destroyed in the Blitz in 1941) at a rental of £40 a year plus another £10 in taxes, hung up his carefully burnished brass plate and embarked on a practice that was neither very exacting nor very rewarding: he made £154 the first year, £250 the second, and never more than £300. When the income-tax paper arrived that first year, Conan Doyle filled it up to show he was not liable. The authorities returned the form with the words, “Most unsatisfactory” scrawled across it. Conan Doyle wrote, “I entirely agree” and sent the form back to the authorities. The practice was slow to grow, and to while away the hours he began to develop his interest in the writing of adventure stories.
1883 - It is thought that Dr John Watson MD, got his name from Dr James Elmwood Watson MD of Edinburgh, who came to practice in Southsea.
1883 - The prestigious Cornhill Magazine publishes a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, based on the Marie Celeste Mystery