Not just Brits. American military industrial figures as well. Jack Parsons, a very important figure in rocketry, is prime example.
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Not just the Brits! Thomas Edison was the 162nd card-carrying Theosophist in America.
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I find Conan Doyle particularly surprising. His credulousness about spiritualism seems completely at odds with the hard-headed intellect of Sherlock Holmes.https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190828-the-two-bizarre-hoaxes-that-tricked-arthur-conan-doyle …
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Spiritualism briefly almost scientific, resulting from discovery of non-Euclidian geometry (c.1840) cf.Linda Dalrymple Henderson's "The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art" (1983), if you haven't already. Fourth dimension postulated as the Spirit World.
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Wasn’t the Fabian Society, which was the matrix of the Labour Party, started as a ghost-hunting group?
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