ДЇrom 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria. Doyle commented later in his life that this academic system could only be excused 'on the plea that any exercise, however stupid in itself, forms a sort of mental dumbbell by which one can improve one's mind.' He also found the school harsh, noting that, instead of compassion and warmth, it favoured the threat of corporal punishment and ritual humiliation. While Doyle was not unhappy at Stonyhurst, he said he did not have any fond memories of it because the school was run on medieval principles: the only subjects covered were rudiments, rhetoric, Euclidean geometry, algebra and the classics. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, which he attended until 1875. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to England, to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst in Lancashire, at the age of nine (1868вЂ“70). Beginning at an early age, throughout his life Doyle wrote letters to his mother, and many of them were preserved. Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. Arthur lodged with Mary Burton, the aunt of a friend, at Liberton Bank House on Gilmerton Road, while studying at Newington Academy. In 1864 the family scattered because of Charles's growing alcoholism, and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England, of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (nГ©e Foley), was Irish Catholic. Portrait of Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1893Дoyle was born on at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. But technically his last name is simply 'Doyle'.' When knighted, he was gazetted as Doyle, not under the compound Conan Doyle. Shortly after he graduated from high school he began using Conan as a sort of surname. Steven Doyle, publisher of The Baker Street Journal, wrote: 'Conan was Arthur's middle name. The catalogues of the British Library and the Library of Congress treat 'Doyle' alone as his surname.

It also names Michael Conan as his godfather. His baptism entry in the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his given names and 'Doyle' as his surname. Doyle is often referred to as 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle' or 'Conan Doyle', implying that 'Conan' is part of a compound surname rather than a middle name.

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