biography
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Myers, F(rederic) W(illiam) H(enry)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1843–1901)
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| biography:
| Poet and essayist, born in Keswick, Cumbria, NW England, UK. A classical scholar, he studied at Cambridge, and became a school inspector (1872–1900). He wrote poems (collected 1921), essays, a book on Wordsworth (1881), and Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903). He was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882, and for the rest of his life he was one of its most productive researchers. |
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