Desmond G. Fitzgerald
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Desmond Gerald Fitzgerald (1834–1905)[citation needed] was an English electrician and spiritualist.
Fitzgerald founded a weekly magazine known as Electrician in 1861. It later became a monthly magazine.[1] Fitzgerald was also involved in improving the manufacture of white lead.[2]
Fitzgerald was a vice-president of the British National Association of Spiritualists and an editor for a spiritualist journal Spiritual Notes. He was a convinced believer in mesmerism and spiritualism. He also defended the discredited "Odic force" of Carl Reichenbach.[3]
He was an early council member of the Society for Psychical Research.[4]
