Home, Daniel Dunglas, a noted spiritualist, born near Edinburgh; became widely known as a “medium,” was presented at Courts and to the Pope; was expelled from the Catholic Church for spiritualistic practices, and latterly became involved in a lawsuit with a Mrs. Lyon, who had bestowed upon him £60,000 and forced him to return it; he is supposed to have suggested to Browning his well-known poem “Sludge—the Medium”; wrote several books (1833‒1886).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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