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Stanley de
Brath
1854-1937
NOTABLE
BRITISH psychical researcher, served 17 years in India as an
engineer in Government service, retired on a good-service pension in 1894
and worked for 20 years as Headmaster of a preparatory school in East
Grinstead.
Made his first acquaintance with the phenomena of spiritualism in 1890
through Cecil Husk, carried on extensive research and ended by fully
accepting survival and the occurrence of supernormal phenomena. After the
war he worked at the Institut Metapsychique in collaboration with Dr.
Gustave Geley. Editor of Psychic Science, the quarterly of the British
College for Psychic Science.
Translated many classic works such as Dr. Charles
Richet's Thirty Years
of Psychical Research, Dr. Gustave Geley's Clairvoyance and
Materialisation and From the Unconscious to the Conscious, Dr. Eugene
Osty's Supernormal Faculties in Man, Prof. Baron von
Schrenck-Notzing's, Phenomena of Materialisations and Animism and Spiritualism by
Ernesto Bozzano.
Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).
Books by Stanley de Brath on this website:
Psychical Research, Science and Religion
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