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Charles L. Tweedale

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Charles L. Tweedale
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As seen in "Man's Survival After Death" (4th ed.)

Born Charles Lakeman Tweedale
22 November 1865(1865-11-22)
Stainland, Yorkshire, England, U.K.
Died 29 June 1944 (78)
Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England, U.K.
Nationality British
Religion Anglican (Church of England)
Workplace(s) Weston Vicarage, Otley, Yorkshire
Affiliations Society of Communion
Spouse(s) Margaret Eleanor Clarke (m. 1899)
Spirit photograph by William Hope: "The Rev. Charles L. Tweedale and Mrs. Tweedale with the spirit-form of the late F. Burnett who died in 1913. Taken under good test conditions Sept. 5th 1919."

Charles Lakeman Tweedale (November 22, 1865 - June 29, 1944) was a English Anglican priest and Spiritualist, an executive member of the Society of Communion, as well as a writer and luthier who was noted for his use of a varnish recipe that he claimed was received from the spirit of Antonio Stradivari.[1]

Selected Bibliography

Press Coverage

1910s

  • "PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA. Manifestations of a Yorkshire Vicarage.", Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England): 9, 4 Apr. 1913, https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-chronicle-psychical-phenomena-m/153213179/ 

    To a representative of the "Yorkshire Post" the Rev. Charles L. Tweedale, vicar of Weston, near Otley, has given an account of the long series of spiritualist manifestations with which he and his family claim to have been favoured over a course of years. Mr. Tweedale said: "During the past few years we have experienced practically the whole range of spiritual and psychical phenomena, and these marvels have come spontaneously and unsought in the presence of several witnesses, and the whole form such cumulative proof as to make conviction certain, and fraud and illusion impossible."

    The Vicar stated that he attributed the phenomena entirely to the influence of the members of his household. "My wife," he said, "has great psychic influence, so have my children, but to a less extent, and possibly I myself may be gifted. At any rate, I was favoured with manifestations before I was married. But the most remarkable of the many remarkable experiences we have had occurred some eighteen months or two years ago, when influence my mother was living with us, and her at that time, perhaps, helped to form a sort of battery in the house; or, else, it is possible extraordinary that her effort presence coincided with some on the other side — the spirit world."

    These had and hundreds of other manifestations which had been experienced at the Vicarage were not, said Mr. Tweedale, the marvels of the seance room. They were spontaneous — higher form of psychic phenomena. "When they first came to us we were living in Norfolk, and they nearly frightened us out of our wits, but that was before we began to study the matter. At Bilton, where we afterwards lived, the spirits were practically silent, and the first big manifestation we had here was in July of 1907. Before that there were loud rappings and knockings in the house, and a gentleman who was staying with us was once awakened out of his sleep, and he came down and wanted to know if we were playing him a trick."

  • "VICAR AND VISIONS. FORMER ORMSKIRK CURATE AND 'PARISH SPRITE.'", The Ormskirk Advertiser, etc. (Ormskirk, Lancashire, England): 2, 17 Apr. 1913, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ormskirk-advertiser-etc-vicar-and/153213475/ 

1920s

1930s

References

  1. ↑ Maker: Charles L. Tweedale, amati.com, http://www.amati.com/maker/tweedale-charlesl-/, "Parish priest who claimed to have received the recipe for Stradivari’s varnish from the spirit world. His ‘revelations’ were published in News from the next world (Spiritualist Press, London, 1940). Prolific maker following classical Italian models. Inconsistent work." 
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