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Frank Podmore (5 February 1856 - 14 August 1910) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 author, founding member of the Fabian Society
Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a United Kingdom intellectual socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means....
, and writer on psychic
Psychic

The word psychic refers to a proposed ability to perception information hidden from the senses through what is described as extrasensory perception, or to those people said to have such abilities....
 matters.

at Elstree
Elstree

Elstree is a village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire on the A5 road , north of London. It forms part of the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood ....
, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a Ceremonial counties of England and Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England Counties of England in the East of England region of England....
, Podmore was the son of Thompson Podmore, headmaster of Eastbourne
Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a large town and borough of East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with an estimated population of 94,816 as of 2007. The area has seen human activity since the stone age and it remained one of small settlements until the 19th century when its four hamlets gradually merged to form a town....
 College. He was educated at Haileybury
Haileybury and Imperial Service College

Haileybury and Imperial Service College, , is a British independent school founded in 1862. It is a co-educational boarding school enrolling pupils at 11+, 13+ and 16+....
 and Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford

Pembroke College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square, Oxford. As of 2007, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of ?45.5 million....
 (where he first became interested in Spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research
Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research is a non-profit organization which started in the United Kingdom and was later imitated in other countries. Its stated purpose is to understand "events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area" and to "examine allegedly paranormal...
 — this interest remained with him throughout his life).

In October 1883 Podmore and Edward R. Pease
Edward R. Pease

Edward Reynolds Pease was an England writer and a founding member of the Fabian Society.Pease, the sixth of fifteen children, was born near Bristol, the son of devout Quakers, Thomas Pease and Susanna Ann Fry sister of Edward Fry, the judge....
 joined a socialist debating group established by Edith Nesbit
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was an England author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of Children's literature, several of which have been adapted for film and television....
 and Hubert Bland
Hubert Bland

Hubert Bland was an early England socialist and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.Born in Woolwich, south-east London, Bland wanted to join the army but instead became a bank clerk....
.






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Frank Podmore
Frank Podmore (5 February 1856 - 14 August 1910) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 author, founding member of the Fabian Society
Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a United Kingdom intellectual socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means....
, and writer on psychic
Psychic

The word psychic refers to a proposed ability to perception information hidden from the senses through what is described as extrasensory perception, or to those people said to have such abilities....
 matters.

Life

Born at Elstree
Elstree

Elstree is a village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire on the A5 road , north of London. It forms part of the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood ....
, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a Ceremonial counties of England and Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England Counties of England in the East of England region of England....
, Podmore was the son of Thompson Podmore, headmaster of Eastbourne
Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a large town and borough of East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with an estimated population of 94,816 as of 2007. The area has seen human activity since the stone age and it remained one of small settlements until the 19th century when its four hamlets gradually merged to form a town....
 College. He was educated at Haileybury
Haileybury and Imperial Service College

Haileybury and Imperial Service College, , is a British independent school founded in 1862. It is a co-educational boarding school enrolling pupils at 11+, 13+ and 16+....
 and Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford

Pembroke College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square, Oxford. As of 2007, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of ?45.5 million....
 (where he first became interested in Spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research
Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research is a non-profit organization which started in the United Kingdom and was later imitated in other countries. Its stated purpose is to understand "events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area" and to "examine allegedly paranormal...
 — this interest remained with him throughout his life).

In October 1883 Podmore and Edward R. Pease
Edward R. Pease

Edward Reynolds Pease was an England writer and a founding member of the Fabian Society.Pease, the sixth of fifteen children, was born near Bristol, the son of devout Quakers, Thomas Pease and Susanna Ann Fry sister of Edward Fry, the judge....
 joined a socialist debating group established by Edith Nesbit
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was an England author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of Children's literature, several of which have been adapted for film and television....
 and Hubert Bland
Hubert Bland

Hubert Bland was an early England socialist and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.Born in Woolwich, south-east London, Bland wanted to join the army but instead became a bank clerk....
. Podmore suggested that the group should be named after the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Maximus
Quintus Fabius Maximus

Quintus Fabius Maximus is the name of some noble romans from the gen Fabii:* Fabius Maximus - roman politician and General, consul and censor...
, who advocated weakening the opposition by harassing operations rather than becoming involved in pitched battles. In January 1884 the group became known as the Fabian Society and Podmore's home at 14 Dean's Yard
Dean's Yard

Dean's Yard, Westminster, comprises most of the remaining precincts of the former monastery of Westminster, not occupied by the Abbey buildings....
, Westminster
Westminster School

The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college....
, became the organisation's first official headquarters.

In 1886 Podmore and Sidney Webb conducted a study into unemployment, eventually published as a Fabian Society pamphlet, The Government Organisation of Unemployed Labour. However, Podmore's major work was a detailed study of the life and ideas of Robert Owen
Robert Owen

Robert Owen , born in Newtown, Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales was a social reformer and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement....
 (1906).

Podmore resigned from a senior post in the Post Office in 1907. He died by drowning at Malvern
Malvern, Worcestershire

Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England . It includes the settlements of Great Malvern, Barnards Green, Malvern Link , Malvern Wells, West Malvern, Little Malvern and North Malvern....
 in August 1910.

Works

Podmore's books and pamphlets include:
  • Phantasms of the Living (1886, written with Frederick Myers
    Frederic William Henry Myers

    Frederic William Henry Myers , was an England poet and essayist. He was the elder son of Frederic Myers ....
     and Edmund Gurney
    Edmund Gurney

    Edmund Gurney was an England psychologist and psychical researcher....
    ).
  • The Government Organisation of Unemployed Labour (1886).
  • Apparitions and Thought-Transference (1892).
  • Studies in Psychical Research (1897).
  • Modern Spiritualism (1902). The foremost history of spiritualism. Reprinted as Mediums of the 19th Century, vols. 1 & 2.
  • Biography of Robert Owen (1906).
  • Mesmerism and Christian Science (1909).
  • The Newer Spiritualism (1910).


External links


  • by Edward R. Pease
    Edward R. Pease

    Edward Reynolds Pease was an England writer and a founding member of the Fabian Society.Pease, the sixth of fifteen children, was born near Bristol, the son of devout Quakers, Thomas Pease and Susanna Ann Fry sister of Edward Fry, the judge....
    .
  • Andrew Lang, , The Making of Religion (Appendix B), Longmans, Green, and C°, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 324-339.