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(Return)191, 1. Norman blood. A sign of aristocracy. The Norman-French conquered England inthe eleventh century and became the aristocracy of England.SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (Page 203)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the eldest son of the artist, Charles Doyle, was born inEdinburgh, Scotland, in May, 1859. He was educated in England, Scotland, andGermany. In 1885 he received the degree of M.D. from Edinburgh University.Immediately afterward he began to practice as a physician, but although he attained nolittle success in this profession, it is as a writer that all the world knows him.He made his first real appearance as an author in 1887 when he published A Study inScarlet. It was in this novel that the wonderful Sherlock Holmes was introduced to thepublic. Dr. Doyle soon attained immense popularity by his narratives of The Adventuresof Sherlock Holmes, which were first published in the Strand Magazine. This popularcharacter returned at intervals in several other novels: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and others.These ingenious stories of the success of the imperturbable Sherlock Holmes in detectingcrime and disentangling mystery have become known wherever the English language isspoken. It is a notable thing to be able to create a character that is known even by people