Occultism & Parapsychology Encyclopedia:
(1851-1912)
Arthur Woollgar Verrall
Classical scholar, husband of the psychical researcher and medium Margaret de Gaudrion Verrall, and father of Helen Verrall Salter, the wife of W. H. Salter. After his death he was one of the purported communicators in the famous " cross-correspondence " tests of the Society for Psychical Research, London, in which wife and daughter participated by producing automatic scripts.
Verrall was born on February 5, 1851, in Brighton, England. He studied at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge University, (B.A., 1873; M.A., 1874). He lectured at Trinity, where he became First King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in 1911. He died June 18, 1912.
