Notable Members
Past and current notable members of the SPR include Henry Sidgwick, Frederick Myers, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Alfred Russel Wallace, Sigmund Freud, W. B. Yeats, C. G. Jung, William James, Arthur Balfour, Archie Roy, Rupert Sheldrake, Richard Wiseman, Susan Blackmore, Dean Radin, Alastair Sim, Peter Underwood and Charles Tart.
In 1893, the year that Arthur Balfour was president of the SPR the author Arthur Conan Doyle joined the society.
Investigators of spontaneous phenomena (hauntings, etc.) have included Guy Lyon Playfair and Maurice Grosse, who investigated reports of the Enfield Poltergeist. and Tony Cornell who conducted extensive investigations over many decades.
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