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Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and his exposing of fake Spiritualists. He is best known for his well-publicized investigation of the purportedly haunted Borley Rectory in Essex, England. ==Early life== Although Price claimed his birth was in Shropshire he was actually born in London in Red Lion Square〔Hall (1978) pp. 26–27, 36–38〕 on the site of the South Place Ethical Society's Conway Hall.〔''Harry Price: The Psychic detective'' by Richard Morris, Stroud, 2006〕〔Hall (1978) pp. 25–30〕 He was educated in New Cross, first at Waller Road Infants School and then Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School.〔Tabori (1950) p. 21〕 At 15, Price founded the Carlton Dramatic Society〔Tabori (1950) p. 22〕 and wrote plays, including a drama, about his early experience with a poltergeist〔''The Sceptic'', performed 2 December 1898 at Amersham Hall〕 which he said took place at a haunted manor house in Shropshire.〔Tabori (1950) p. 25〕 According to Richard Morris, a few years later, Price came to the attention of the press when he claimed an early interest in space-telegraphy. He set up a receiver and transmitter between Telegraph Hill, Hatcham and St Peter's Church Brockley and captured a spark on a photographic plate, though according to the most recent biography of Price by Richard Morris, this was nothing more than Harry writing a press release saying he had done the experiment, as nothing was verified. The young Price also had an avid interest in coin collecting and wrote several articles for ''The Askean'', the magazine for Haberdashers' School. In his autobiography, ''Search for Truth'', written between 1941 and 1942, Price claimed he was involved with archaeological excavations in Greenwich Park, London but in earlier writings on Greenwich he denied any involvement in the excavation.〔Hall (1978) pp. 102–113〕 From around May 1908 Price continued his interest in archaeology at Pulborough, Sussex where he had moved prior to marrying Constance Mary Knight that August. As well as working for paper merchants Edward Saunders & Sons as a salesman, he wrote for two local Sussex newspapers the ''West Sussex Gazette'' and the ''Southern Weekly News'' where he wrote about his remarkable propensity for discovering 'clean' antiquities. One of these, a silver ingot, was stamped around the time of the last Roman emperor Honorius. A few years later, another celebrated Sussex archaeologist Charles Dawson found a brick at Pevensey Fort in Sussex which was purportedly made in Honorius' time. In 1910 Professor E. J Haverfield of Oxford University, the country's foremost expert on Roman history and a Fellow of the Royal Academy, declared it to be a fake.〔 A report for the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries (number 23, pages 121–9) in the same year reported that:
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