David Duguid
David Duguid may refer to: * David Duguid (medium) (1832–1907), Scottish spiritualist medium and cabinet-maker * David Duguid (politician) David James Duguid (born 8 October 1970) is a Scottish Conservative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan since June 2017. Duguid's victory marked the end of 30 years of Scottish National Party (SNP) represe ...

David Duguid (medium)
David Duguid (February 10, 1832 – March 14, 1907) was a Scottish spiritualist medium and Glasgow cabinet-maker by trade. Career Duguid was born in Dunfermline. He worked as a cabinet-maker as a young man. He began his interest in spiritualism in 1866 by attending table-turning experiments. He later took up mediumship and spirit photography. He was also known for his automatic drawings and paintings, which impressed the psychical researcher Edward Trusted Bennett. However, in 1878, Frank Podmore attended a séance of Duguid and strongly suspected that he had cheated by using a card that had already been painted. In 1892, Duguid was tested in Glasgow and London by John Traill Taylor, editor of the ''British Journal of Photography''. Extra figures appeared on the camera plates. Taylor noted that the figures were "vile" looking but offered no explanation for their origin. His spirit photography was exposed when it was revealed he had used paper with chemically bleached-out ima ...
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