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William Lees Templeton 1898 – 1978

William Lees Templeton 1898? – 1978?  MD Glasgow was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Dean of The Faculty of Homeopathy and Director of Provings at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, and editor of The British Homeopathic Journal.

William Lees Templeton was a colleague of Edward Bach, Ardeshir Kavasji Boman Behram, Douglas Morris Borland, John Henry Clarke, Andrew Tocher Cunningham, Donald MacDonald Foubister, Clarence Granville Hey, James Douglas Kenyon, Thomas Maughan, William Burnett Douglas Miller, Elizabeth Paterson, John Paterson, Kathleen Gordon Priestman, Percival George Quinton, William Wilson Rorke, Margaret Lucy Tyler, John Weir, Charles Edwin Wheeler, Harold Fergie Woods, and Dudley d’Auvergne Wright.

William Lees Templeton also practiced at 6 Robin Grove. West Hill, London, N6 and 146, Harley Street, London W1. Continue Reading »

David V Tansley 1934 – 1988

David V Tansley 1934 – 1988 was a chiropractor, lecturer, and the Vice President of the British Radionics Association.

David Tansley was a colleague of John DaMonte, Ruth Drown, Thomas Galen Hieronymus, George Laurence, Tad Mann, Malcolm Rae, Guyon Richards, Rosemary Russell, George de la Warr, Vernon Wethered, Jane Wilcox, Continue Reading »

Charles Thompson 1833 – 1896

Charles Thompson 1833? – 1896 MRCS was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become House Surgeon at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, and a member of the British Homeopathic Society,

Charles Thompson also practiced in Bristol, and he was married to Mary Turner Morton, and their daughter Helen died of tuberculosis aged 15 months in 1864, so the family moved to Manchester.

As he once did in Preston (at 7 Winckley Street, Preston, Lancashire), in 1857, Dr. Charles Thompson, in 1864, re-opened his homeopathic surgery from the Thompson residence in Stamford Street, of Manchester’s Ashton under Lyme (226, Stamford Street). Continue Reading »

Malcolm Rae 1913 – 1979

Malcolm Rae 1913 – 1979 became interested in alternative medicine as a young man when he had been ‘written off’ by his allopathic doctors.

Malcolm Rae eventually joined the Fleet Air Arm and became a Commander in WWII.

Malcolm Rae and others took the work of Albert Abrams and, over fifteen years of research, working closely with doctors so he could clinically test each step, and combining his knowledge of homeopathy and radionics, Malcolm Rae built a number of radionics machines before eventually developing his geomagnetic potentiser.

Malcolm Rae was a student of Donald MacDonald Foubister and Farley Spink, and a colleague of John DaMonte, George Delawarr, Ruth Drown, William (Bill) Fletcher, Thomas Galen Hieronymus, George Laurence, Tad Mann, Guyon Richards, Rosemary Russell, David V Tansley, George de la Warr, Vernon Wethered, Jane Wilcox,

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Annette von Droste Hulshoff 1797 – 1848

Annette von Droste Hulshoff 1797 –  1848 was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets.

In 1843, Annette von Droste Hulshoff was a patient of Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen, who she had more faith in than any allopathic doctor.

Annette von Droste Hulshoff was a friend of The Grimm Brothers,

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Andrew Combe 1797 – 1847

Andrew Combe 1797 – 1847 Scottish physiologist and younger brother of George Combe, and the physician of Leopold I Belgium and Queen Victoria.

Andrew Combe wrote a letter in defense of homeopathy to John Forbes, wherein he declares himself satisfied that homeopathy has ‘established its claim for a fair hearing’, and encouraging John Forbes to conduct clinical trials on homeopathy.

Andrew Combe was a friend of Robert Chambers, John Chapman, Richard Cobden, Catharine Crowe, John Epps, Marmaduke Blake Sampson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Continue Reading »

Clemens Hampe 1802 – 1882

Clemens Hampe 1802 – 1882 was an Austrian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become physician to Prince Lichtenstein, and one of the editors of the Oestrerreiche Zeitschrift für Homëopathie.

Clemens Hampe was also an entymologist, and and he was a member of the Transylvanian Society for Geography, and the Zoological Botanical Society in Vienna.

In 1839,  Hampe began to publish, firstly an essay on pneumonia, he then began to edit the Oestrerreiche Zeitschrift für Homëopathie, alongside Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Fleischmann, Philipp Anton Watzke, and Franz Wurmb.

Hampe was a colleague of was a colleague of Archhorn, Joseph Attomyr, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Fleischmann, Frohlich, Gaspar, Adolph Heinrich Gerstel, Landersmann, Low, Matthias Marenzeller, Clotar Moriz Mueller, Schaflin, George Schmid, A Schmidt, Schwarz, Tedesko, Viet, Walter, Philipp Anton WatzkeFranz Wurmb, Wurstl, and many others. Continue Reading »

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor 1886 – 1975

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM 18861975 was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. He has been described as “one of the greatest physical scientists of the 20th century”.

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was the great grandson of the homeopathic pioneer Thomas Roupell Everestthe grandson of George Boole, the son of Margaret Boole, and the nephew of Lucy Everest BooleAlicia Boole Stott, Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich, Continue Reading »

Ker Xavier Roussel 1867 – 1944

Ker Xavier Roussel 18671944 was a French painter associated with Les Nabis.

Ker Xavier Roussel’s father and brother were homeopaths.

Xavier Roussell was the brother in law of Jean Edouard Vuillard, and he was a friend of Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Gauguin, Continue Reading »

Evan Frederic Morgan, Lord Tredegar 1893 – 1949

Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar 1893 – 1949 was the only son to Courtenay Morgan (the future Lord Tredegar of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire) and the Lady Katherine Carnegie.

Evan Morgan was a Chamberlain to Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI yet, as an accomplished occultist, was hailed by Aleister Crowley as “Adept of Adepts”.

Evan Morgan was a patient of John Moorhead Byres Moir, and a friend of Aleister Crowley, Frederick Albert Theodore Delius, Philip Arnold Heseltine, Aldous Huxley, Herbert George Wells, Continue Reading »

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