HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-86). A Scotch spiritualist medium, born near Edinburgh. He was descended on his mother's side from a High land family noted for its gift of 'second sight' When a child he was brought to the United States, and before he was twenty he was widely known as a medium. On the testimony of Wil liam Cullen Bryant, Professor Wells of Harvard, and other well-known men, it is recorded that knocking on the walls, the sliding about of the furniture, and the `levitation' of the medium himself in the air occurred without the slightest recourse to trickery so far as they could observe. When he returned to England in I856,his silances were attended by many prominent people. in cluding Robert Browning and his wife. Mrs. Browning is said to have believed in spiritualism, but her husband disbelieved, and was inspired to write Mr. Sludge, the Medium. in 1856 Home became a Catholic while at Rome; but in 1864 was expelled from the city as a sorcerer. Dr.
Robert Chambers and Dr. Lockhart Robertson were among his converts, and a number of scien tists were convinced of the genuineness of his powers, including Sir William Crookes, who pub lished an account of the experiments made with him, entitled Vesearehes in the Phenomena of Spiritualism (1874). In 1866 Home became sec retary of the Spiritual Athenamm, for the propa gation of spiritualism. He instituted a vignronA campaign against professional mediums and scru pulously abstained from taking money at his sOances. He published Incidents in My Life (2 vols., 1863-72). and Lights and Shadows of Spir itualism (1877). Consult : Madame Home. D. D. Home: his Life and Mission (London, 1888), and The Gift of D. D. Home (ib., 1890).