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In his presidential address to the society in 1955 Mr Lambert described how his interest in psychical research was kindled when he was at the public school (Cheltenham College) where F W H Myers had been some 45 years before and there read his
newly published (1903) Human Personality in the college library. ‘Before I left a memorial to Myers was dedicated in the Chapel and Sir Oliver Lodge delivered the address at the dedication service. These things happened to me at an
impressionable age, and I was fired with an ambition to have my own copy of Human Personality. It was far outside the reach of my pocket money, and I had the temerity to ask for the work as a prize. Fortunately for me, Myers was considered a
prophet in his old school, and I am still the proud possessor of those two volumes to which I often refer.’
Mr Lambert’s address was devoted to ‘The use of Evidence in Psychical Research’ and in it he made the point that a study of places where poltergeist phenomena occurred showed that in countries with a seaboard they were much more likely to
happen along the coast, including estuaries and the tidal reaches of rivers, than elsewhere, and if inland, they seemed to favour the sides of valleys with rivers at the bottom. Also, by far the greater number started in the months October to
March, as compared with the months April to September.
These considerations caused Mr Lambert to form his ‘Underground Water’ theory, which has come in for a certain amount of criticism. It would be a pity if Mr Lambert’s preoccupation with underground water theory overshadowed the credit that
should be given to him for his many scholarly papers on a variety of subjects which include the automatic writing of Mrs Verrall, Mrs Holland, and the Mackinnon family of Aberdeen and the celebrated Versailles case.
Mr Lambert’s mind was essentially practical, which was to be expected from someone who held the high position of Under Secretary of State at the War Office from 1938 to 1951. In his researches he was helped by his knowledge of geneology: he
was elected a Fellow of the Irish Geneological Research Society in 1970.
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