Hardy, Sir Alister Clavering, 1896-1985 (zoologist and investigator of religious experience)

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1896 - 1985

Biography

Sir Alister Clavering Hardy (1896-1985), marine biologist, was Professor of Zoology, Hull University, 1928-42, Professor of Natural History, Aberdeen, 1942-46, and Linacre Professor of Zoology, Oxford, 1946-61. He founded the Religious Experience Research Centre at Manchester College Oxford in 1969. He joined SPR in 1949, and was President, 1965-69; Count Michael Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo (1868-1954), Russian-born psychical researcher, joined SPR in 1890 and participated in the Hallucinations Census, and later investigated mediums including Eusapia Palladino; Gardner Murphy (1895-1979), American psychologist and parapsychologist, joined SPR in 1927 and was President in 1949; Kathleen Agnes Robson Gay (1890-1969), parapsychologist, joined the SPR Council in 1950, and chaired the Sir Oliver Lodge Posthumous Test Committee.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

File

Letter to T.C. Lethbridge, 1970

File

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/32/4

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Published posthumously by Routledge & Kegan Paul, with a foreword by Colin Wilson

Dates: 1970

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Found in: Cambridge University Library / T. C. Lethbridge: Correspondence and papers / The power of the pendulum

Series

Telepathy Experiments by Sir Alister Hardy and Others, 1891-1968

Series

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS SPR/25

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection includes papers of individuals involved in psychical research, collections of papers relating to specific cases of paranormal activity, papers relating to the administration of the Society and also research and medium files. The collections include correspondence, notes, diagrams, drawings, photographs, newspaper articles and printed pamphlets.Held on deposit from the Society for Psychical Research since 1990. PLEASE NOTE: Due to GDPR, material post-1932...

Dates: 1891-1968

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Society for Psychical Research archive