Desmond Gerald Fitzgerald (1834–1905) was an English
electrician and spiritualist.
Fitzgerald founded a weekly magazine known as ''Electrician'' in 1861. It later became a monthly magazine. Fitzgerald was also involved in improving the manufacture of
white lead.
Fitzgerald was a vice-president of the
British National Association of Spiritualists and an editor for a spiritualist journal ''Spiritual Notes''. He was a convinced believer in
mesmerism
Animal magnetism, also known as mesmerism, was a protoscientific theory developed by German doctor Franz Mesmer in the 18th century in relation to what he claimed to be an invisible natural force (''Lebensmagnetismus'') possessed by all livi ...
and
spiritualism. He also defended the discredited "
Odic force" of
Carl Reichenbach.
He was an early council member of the
Society for Psychical Research.
[McCorristine, Shane. (2010). ''Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920''. Cambridge University Press. p. 110. ]
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1834 births
1905 deaths
English electricians
English spiritualists
British parapsychologists
19th-century British businesspeople
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