20 Facts About Everard Feilding

Francis Henry Everard Joseph Feilding best known as Everard Feilding was an English barrister, naval intelligence officer and psychical researcher.

Everard Feilding was educated at Oscott College and attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1887, he obtained his bachelors of law degree in 1890.

Everard Feilding was a Catholic, he began his interest in psychical research from his visit to Lourdes in 1892.

Everard Feilding was secretary of the Society for Psychical Research from 1903 to 1920.

Everard Feilding's father was Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh and his brother Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh.

Everard Feilding served as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and worked for the British Intelligence Staff in Egypt and Palestine.

Everard Feilding is best-known for his investigation of the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino.

Everard Feilding took a blood sample to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Everard Feilding found that it was wet but he did not directly observe the picture to have bled.

Everard Feilding discovered hours later that although the picture was wet, the paper had been dislodged.

The evidence was negative but Everard Feilding did not believe Vachere was guilty of deception.

Everard Feilding's wife suspected that Vachere sprinkled water on the picture from a small pot she found behind some flowers in the room.

Everard Feilding took a blood sample and this time the results showed it was human blood.

Everard Feilding did not come to any definite conclusion but because of the evidence suggestive of fraud, sceptics have dismissed the case as a hoax.

Everard Feilding was a friend of the neurologist Henry Head who he attempted to get involved with psychical research.

Everard Feilding invited Head to a "ghost hunt" at an alleged haunted house known as "Pickpocket Hall" on his brother's estate in Pantasaph.

Everard Feilding wrote in a letter to Wilfrid Meynell that they spent a few nights in the derelict house but the result was a failure.

Everard Feilding persuaded Head to investigate the shrines at Lourdes in the summer of 1895.

In 1911, Everard Feilding attended two seance sittings with the medium Etta Wriedt.

Everard Feilding was "specifically excluded" from attending further seances with Wriedt.