Background
Evans, Henry Ridgely was born on November 7, 1861 in Baltimore. Son of Henry Cotheal and Mary Elizabeth (Garrettson) Evans.
Evans, Henry Ridgely was born on November 7, 1861 in Baltimore. Son of Henry Cotheal and Mary Elizabeth (Garrettson) Evans.
Educated Georgetown College, District of Columbia, and Columbian College (now George Washington University). Bachelor of Laws, University Maryland, 1884, Doctor of Letters, 1914.
Student psychical research and
Author: Historical Introduction and Bibliography to Hopkins’ Magic, Illusions and Scientific Diversions, 1901. The Spirit World Unmasked, 1902. The Napoleon Myth, 1905.
The Old and the New Magic, 1909. The House of the Sphinx, 1907. History of the York and Scottish Rites of Freemasonry, 1924.
Adventures in Magic, 1927. History of Conjuring and Magic, 1928. Cagliostro and his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry, 1930.
Cagliostro, Sorcerer of the Eighteenth Century, 1931, review edit., 1941. A Master of Modern Magic—Life and Adventures of Robert Houdin, 1932. Old Georgetown on the Potomac, 1933.
Founders of the Colonial Families of Ridgely, Dorsey, and Greenberry, of Maryland, 1935. Progenitors of the Howards of Maryland, 1938. Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen’s Chess-Playing Automaton, 1939.
Some Rare Old Books on Conjuring and Magic, 1943. Compiled list of writings of William Torrey Harris, 1907.
Member Society of Colonial Wars.
Married Florence Kirkpatrick, December 31, 1891.