Rosina Thompson

[1] Thompson worked as a medium at Hertford Lodge in Battersea, London.

She came to the attention of the Society for Psychical Research and performed séance experiments for them from 1898 onward.

[2] Thompson was originally a physical medium, however as physical mediumship was exposed as fraudulent the psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers persuaded Thompson to take up trance mediumship.

[3] Some psychical researchers were not impressed with her mediumship as it was discovered that her trances were not genuine.

Hodgson claimed that Thompson had access to documents and information about her séance sitters.