E. Clephan Palmer

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Ernest Clephan Palmer (1883–1954) was a British journalist, author and researcher into psychic phenomena. Born in Ipswich, he edited the Daily News and the News Chronicle for about forty years and was a longtime member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, serving as its chairman in 1951. He also worked for several other newspapers and helped secure the release of Oscar Slater with Arthur Conan Doyle. Palmer served in World War I in France and Flanders. He married Claudine Pattie Sapey and had two sons; his son Peter later received the C.B.E. He cared about animal welfare and wrote The Solitary Blackbird (1954) about caring for a young blackbird. In psychical research he was skeptical of most spirit phenomena, believing fraud explains most séances, though he thought telepathy could explain some cases and the survival question should stay open.