| Intro | British author and journalist |
| Was | Journalist |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type | Journalism |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1 January 1883, Ipswich, Ipswich, Suffolk, East of England |
| Death |
1 January 1954 (aged 71 years) |
Ernest Clephan Palmer (1883-1954) was a British author and journalist.
Biography
Palmer was born in Ipswich and worked for forty years as an editor for the London Daily News and the News Chronicle. For twenty-three years Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Throughout is career he also worked for the West Sussex Gazette, the Daily Express, the Morning Leader and the Daily Mail.
He served in France and Flanders in World War I. Palmer with the support of his friend Arthur Conan Doyle was involved in solving the Oscar Slater case. Palmer married Claudine Pattie Sapey, they had two sons. He was interested in psychical research and spiritualism, he was a friend of the psychical investigator Harry Price.
In his book The Riddle of Spiritualism (1927) Palmer came to the conclusion that most mediumship and phenomena observed in the séance is the result of fraud, however, he believed telepathy to explain some cases of mental mediumship. He wrote there is no scientific evidence for the spirit hypothesis in mediumship but the question of survival should still be kept open.
Publications
- The Solitary Blackbird (1954)
- The Young Blackbird (1953)
- The Riddle of Spiritualism (1927)