Henry R. Evans

Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans (1861-1949) was an amateur magician specializing in history of magic.

Henry R. Evans
From Magic and Its Professors (1902)
Born	Henry Ridgely Evans November 07, 1861 Baltimore, Maryland
Died	March 29, 1949 (age 87) Baltimore, Maryland
Resting place	Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington (lot 610 East)
Categories	Books by Henry R. Evans

Evans studied law at the University of Maryland, and began a practice in Baltimore City, but soon abandoned the legal profession for journalism. He worked for "The Evening News," "Day," and "Times" of Baltimore,

He only occasionally performed in public for charitable purposes. His interest in magic and occultism led him to investigate spiritualism, which he expressed his views on the subject in his book "Hours with the Ghosts or Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy."

He died at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

Honors

• Cover of Mahatma Vol 4, No. 5 (November,1900)

Books

• Hours with the Ghosts, Or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft (1897)
• Magic and Its Professors (1902)
• The Spirit World Unmasked (1902)
• The Old and the New Magic (1906)
• The House of the Sphinx (1907)
• Adventures in Magic (1927)
• The History of Conjuring and Magic (1928)
• Cagliostro and his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry (1930)
• A Master of Modern Magic: The Life and Adventures of Robert-Houdin (1932)
• Edgar Allen Poe and Baron von Kempelen's Chess-Playing Automaton (1939)
• Some Rare Old Books on Conjuring and Magic (1943)

References

• Cover Linking Ring, Vol. 11, no. 11, January 1932.
• Cover Linking Ring, Vol. 24, no. 9, November 1944.
• Bat No. 65, May 1949, page 490
• http://www.miraclefactory.net/evanscontents.htm
• DR. HENRY RIDGELY EVANS An Appreciation of the Man and His Work By H. Adrian Smith, Linking Ring, May 1949</ref>