Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888
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Oliphant, Lawrence, 1829-1888
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Oliphant, Lawrence, 1829-1888
אוליפנט, לורנס, 1829-1888
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Oliphant, Lawrence, 1829-
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Olifanṭ, Lorens, 1829-1888
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Woodbine 1829-1888
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Olifanṭ, Lorens 1829-1888
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Oliphant, L.
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Oliphant, L.
オリファント, ローレンス
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Oliphant, Wawrzyniec
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Oliphant, Wawrzyniec
אוליפנט, לורנס 1829-1888 .
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Oliphant, Lawrence
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Oliphant, Lawrence
אליפאנט, לורנס, 1829-1888
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אליפאנט, לורנס, 1829-1888
אליפהאנט, אליפהאנט
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Oliphant, Lorenzo 1829-1888
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Oliphant, Laurence
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Oliphant, L. 1829-1888
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English author and mystic.
English novelist and mystic.
Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) was a British author, traveller, diplomat and mystic. He wrote his first book at age 25, and several more followed as outcomes of his extensive travels in India, Russia, China, and Japan. In 1866 both he and his mother fell under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris.
Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) was born in England but came to New York with his parents at the age of five. While still a young man he became a Unitarian Universalist preacher and then a Swedenborgian. In the early 1860s he founded a Utopian community in Wassaic, New York, among whose members were twenty Japanese from Satsuma Province. When Laurence and his mother, Lady Oliphant, joined the commune they brought a much-needed infusion of cash which allowed the group to move to Brocton on the shores of Lake Erie. Back in England, the Ruxton family became sympathizers and financial supporters of Harris though they never lived in the commune itself.
In 1875 Harris began a gradual relocation of the community to California where he founded the Fountain Grove community. The Oliphants had a falling-out with Harris in about 1881 and through legal action regained some, but not all, of the money they had invested.
[Portions of this sketch adapted from the article "Oliphant, Laurence" in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Vol. 20, pp. 82-83; and from California's Utopian Communities by Robert V. Hine, p. 15]
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