"Literary father" Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (right - Watson), and Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and many other famous characters in English literature.Arthur Conan Doyle was born in the Scottish capital Edinburgh 22 may 1859. In 1881, after graduating from the medical faculty of the University of Edinburgh, Conan Doyle was engaged in medical practice in Southsea, and then he defended his doctoral dissertation. There, in Southsea, he seriously engaged in