Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Richard Hodgson
Secretary, Society for Psychical Research
Centurion, 1894–1905
Henry Holt, Samuel P. Langley, and Levi Holbrook
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Boston, Massachusetts
Age thirty-eight
Century Memorial
Dr. Richard Hodgson was a native of Australia, where he was born in 1855, and a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He also was graduated in Mental and Moral Sciences at Cambridge University, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1884 he was University lecturer at Cambridge on the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. For some years previous to his coming to the United States, he pursued with much thoroughness the study of “spiritualistic” phenomena, and made in India a special investigation into the alleged miracles of Madame Blavatsky, with conclusions unfavorable to the claims of that remarkable woman. Since 1887 he had been Secretary and Treasurer of the American Branch of the Society for Psychical Research, to whose “Proceedings” he was an extensive contributor.
Edward Cary
1906 Century Association Yearbook
