Bruce, H(enry) Addington (Bayley)(1874-1959)
Bruce, H(enry) Addington (Bayley)(1874-1959)
Canadian author, newspaperman, and lecturer on psychology, education, and sociology. Bruce was born June 27, 1874, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1859; M.S., 1896) and Harvard University. In 1897 he married Lauretta Augusta Bowers (died 1941). In the early 1920s, Bruce was a trustee of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), but he broke with the ASPR in 1925 and became director of research for the Boston Society for Psychical Research. He authored a number of books on psychic subjects and contributed a number of articles to Tommorrow magazine. He died February 23, 1959, in Hartford, Connecticut.
Sources:
Bruce, Henry Addington Bayley. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1908.
——. Riddle of Personality. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1915.
——. Scientific Mental Healing. Boston, Little, Brown, 1911.