Daniel Dunglas Home, famous British medium. He was born on 15 March 1833 in Scotland and disincarnated on 21 June 1886 in France. He married Alexandrina Kroll, sister of Countess Kouchelew-Bezborodko, in Russia in 1856. 

At the age of thirteen he began to show signs of psychic faculties. He never exploited his faculties to make money. Never in the course of the 30 years of his extraordinary mission did he ever make himself pay for the manifestations of his gifts. The Union Club of Paris, in 1857, offered him two thousand pounds sterling for a single séance; he, poor and invalid, flatly refused. He contented himself with saying: «I have been sent on a mission». He led an irreproachable life. 

He had visions, spontaneous levitation, manipulation of fire, movement of heavy objects without any contact, materialisation of spirits, extraordinary healings and also transmitted messages from spirits. 

The phenomenon of levitation was one of the proofs of Home's remarkable mediumistic powers. He is said to have risen several times in the air in the presence of witnesses of the highest reputation. In 1857, while staying in a chateau near Bordeaux, he rose to the ceiling of a rather high room. Home to leave evidence, he made a cross with a pencil on the ceiling. 

In 1860, an article by Robert Bell, «Stranger than a Novel», published in the Cornhill, said: «He rose from the chair in which he was sitting to within four or five feet of the ground... We saw his head pass from one side of the window to the other, with his feet backwards, lying horizontally in the air».  

In 1868, while the medium was in one of the rooms on the third floor of the Ashley House Hotel, in front of several people, he levitated out of one window and in through another. 

There were so many cases of Home's levitation that a long chapter could be written exclusively on this phase of his mediumship. Moreover, they were attested by so many and such famous observers, and under such clear conditions, that no reasonable man could doubt them, and those made by Professor Crookes, who repeatedly witnessed the phenomenon, and spoke of it on 50 different occasions, would have sufficed for this purpose. The secretaries of the British Royal Society refused to admit the demonstrations of the physical phenomena which Crookes offered them, preferring to pronounce strongly against them. 

There is also other clear evidence in the numerous testimonies of people in England who made investigations using Home and recorded the results in letters or public statements, demonstrating that they were not only convinced of the reality of the phenomena, but also of their spiritual origin. Among them deserve particular mention the Duchess of Sutherland, Dr. Robert Chambers, Dr. Gully (of Malvern), Sir Charles Nicholson, among others. 

Allan Kardec met Daniel Home personally in Paris, in October 1855; praising the medium's character, his modesty, his noble sentiments and his elevation of soul. The Codification of Spiritism always defended him from detractors and malevolents through the Spiritist Magazine, in different editions throughout the years. 

Kardec relates that not only Home but also the table rose in space without any contact, and that the phenomenon was not due to an act of the medium's will. Kardec writes that Home himself told him that he did not realise what was happening and that he always thought he was on the ground unless he looked down. 

In the Spiritist Magazine (April-1858), Allan Kardec considers that the apparition productions of Home were the most extraordinary. He relates several instances of the formation of fluidic hands, in everything resembling living hands, solid and resistant; they appeared and suddenly evaporated when one tried to grasp them. He also mentions pianos and accordions that played by themselves. 

According to the Codifier, he corresponded with Home. In 1858, when the medium was in Italy, the slanders launched against him to defame him claimed that he was in Mazas prison. Kardec maintained that he had correspondence proving that he was peacefully in Naples for reasons of health. 

In the Spiritist Review (Sep-1863) the Codifier said about Home:  

"....There is no medium who has produced a more admirable set of phenomena, nor under more honest conditions, and yet a good many of those who have seen him work treat him as a skilful conjurer". 

Conan Doyle, said of Home:  

"And when that life so useful and so disinterested passed into another world, there was hardly a newspaper, it must be said, to the eternal insult of our press, which did not treat Home as an impostor and a charlatan. But the time is approaching when it will have to be recognised that the man was one of the champions of the slow and arduous progress of mankind through ignorance".