Vernon Harrison

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Vernon Harrison (Warwickshire 1912 -) is a professional research worker of disputed documents.

Vernon Harrison went to Vesey's Grammar school in Sutton Coldfield. Later he studied physics, chemistry and mathematics in the university of Birmingham. After gaining his diploma he did research in physics.

He obtained his doctorate and was appointed as research physicist at PATRA (Printing and Allied Trades Research Association). In 1957, he was appointed as director for research of PATRA.

In 1967, he became research manager at Thomas De La Rue & Co., which prints bank notes and other security documents. He studied the methods of counterfeiters and forgers.

At his retirement in 1977, he started as a research worker of documents of which the authenticity is questioned.

Harrison had a life long interest for photography. From 1974 up to 1976 he was president of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

Harrison has been a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). He was also a founder member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP).

In spring 1984 Harrison got interested in a report which dates from the beginning years of the Society for Psychical Research. In this so-called Hodgson Report Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was stigmatised as one of the most gifted, ingenious and interesting impostors in history. Harrison studied the file and submitted the different documents to a thorough research. On 8 May 1986 the SPR published the report concerning the findings of Harrison. Later, after still thorougher research a second report was published.