He began to attend séances in 1869 with various mediums, especially Mrs Thomas Everitt and William Eglinton, and became a spiritualist.
In 1886 and 1887 in a series of publications the SPR exposed the tricks of the medium William Eglinton.
Eglinton performed slate writing mediumship and his leading critics were the psychical researchers Eleanor Sidgwick and Richard Hodgson.
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