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DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME (1833-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 626 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL DUNGLAS See also:HOME (1833-1886)  , Scottish spiritualist, was See also:born near See also:Edinburgh on the loth of See also:March 1833, his See also:father being said to be a natural son of the loth See also:earl of See also:Home, and his See also:mother a member of a See also:family credited with second sight . He went with his mother to See also:America, and on her See also:death was adopted by an aunt . In the See also:United States he came out as a spiritualistic See also:medium, though, it should be noted, he never sought to make See also:money out of his exhibitions . In 1855 be came to See also:England aiid gave numerous seances, which were attended by many well-known See also:people . See also:Robert See also:Browning, the poet, went to one of these, but without altering his contempt for See also:spiritualism, and he subsequently gave his impression of Home in the unflattering poem of " Sludge the Medium " (1864); Home, nevertheless, had many disciples, and gave seances at several See also:European courts . He became a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, but was expelled from See also:Rome as a sorcerer. in 1866 Mrs See also:Lyon, a wealthy widow, adopted him as her son, and settled £6o,000 upon him . Repenting, however, of her See also:action, she brought a suit for the return of her money, on the ground that it had been obtained by " spiritual " See also:influence . It was held that the See also:burden of establishing the validity of the ;ift See also:lay on Home, and as he failed to do so the See also:case was decided against him . He continued, however, to give seances, mostly on the See also:Continent, and in 1871 appeared before the See also:tsar of See also:Russia and two See also:Russian scientists, who attested the phenomena evoked . Returning to England he submitted to a See also:series of experiments designed to test his pretensions before See also:Professor (subsequently See also:Sir See also:William) See also:Crookes, which the latter declared to be thoroughly genuine; and Professor von Boutlerow, of the Russian See also:Academy of See also:Science, after witnessing a similar series of experiments, expressed the same See also:opinion . Home published two volumes of Incidents of my See also:Life and See also:Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism . I-Ie married successively two well-connected Russian ladies .

He died at Auteuil, See also:

France, on the 21st of See also:June 1886 .

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