Ernest T. Hargrove

Ernest Temple Hargrove (* 1870 or 1871 in England ; † April 8, 1939 in the USA ) was an English-American lawyer and theosophist . He was the second president of the Theosophical Society in America and later president of the rival organization Theosophical Society in America (Hargrove) . Mostly his name is abbreviated to ET Hargrove or ETH .

life and work

Hargrove was a lawyer and joined the London Lodge and thus the Theosophical Society around 1890 . In the early 1890s he moved to the United States, where he became William Quan Judge's private secretary . When the Theosophical Society split in 1895 as a result of the Judge Case , he followed the direction of Judges and became a member of the Theosophical Society in America (TGinA).

Judge died on March 21, 1896, after having been president of the TGinA, but had no clear guidelines for his succession. Under Hargrove's leadership, the search for clues regarding Judge's last will followed. A hint was found in his papers that was interpreted to mean that a person named Promise was to be his successor when she was eventually identified as Katherine Tingley . Tingley was only to take office after a year and proposed Hargrove as (transitional) president and successor to Judges at the end of April 1896. This proposal was accepted, Hargrove had become President of the TGinA, but the real Eminence in the background was Katherine Tingley from the start.

Together with Tingley and other theosophists, he went on an advertising trip around the world for the TGinA from June 1896 to April 1897. He also visited Switzerland, Austria and Germany, where he was present on August 30, 1896 at the first general meeting of the Theosophical Society in Europe (Germany) when Franz Hartmann was appointed President. At a large theosophical congress in Chicago on February 18, 1898, Tingley was now "officially" elected as president of the TGinA, replacing Hargrove.

At this congress, Tingley was given full powers, which gave her complete control over the TGinA, while Hargrove received nothing. He had expected at least a senior position within the TGinA, but lost all competencies to Tingley and was practically sidelined. He protested violently against this decision of Congress, declared it illegal and convened his own Congress in another room. There his supporters elected AH Spencer as counter-president, but without changing anything in Tingley's election. From this point on there were two TGinAs. After no agreement could be reached in the following months, Hargrove was elected President of the second organization (called Theosophical Society in America (Hargrove) for better differentiation ). He was President of this TGinA Hargrove until his death in 1939. The TGinA-Hargrove, however, never achieved greater importance and fell apart with Hargrove's death.

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1. ↑ http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/wqjcasetableofcontents.pdf
2. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/theosophica%20lmovement.htm
3. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/stokescrosbie.htm
4. ↑ http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/stokesestapril96.htm
5. ↑ http://www.theosophycanada.com/history.htm
6. ↑ http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/stokeswqjchan.htm
7. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/stokesneres.htm#summer
8. ↑ http://www.neue-rosenkreuzer.de/material/material-20.html

Works

• An American view of the South African situation, How Australasia might help Great Britain . New York 1901.
• World politics . RF Fenno & company, New York 1898.

Web links

• Picture Hargroves and texts about what happened after the death of Judges (English, scroll down a bit, then 1st picture left)