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Washington Irving Bishop

Washington Irving Bishop, also known as Wellington (4 March 1855 – 13 May 1889) was an American stage mentalist. He started his career as an assistant under the muscle reader J. Randall Brown, but was most well known for his performance of the blindfold drive.[1][2]

Washington Irving Bishop

March 4, 1855

May 13, 1889

Mentalist

Wicks, Frederick; Bishop, Washington Irving (1880). . New York?. p. 90.

Second Sight Explained: A Complete Exposition of Clairvoyance or Second Sight

Bishop, Washington Irving (1886). . p. 12.

Thought Reading

Bishop, Eleanor Fletcher (1889). . p. 146.

A mother's life dedicated, and an appeal for justice to all brother Masons and the generous public : a synopsis of the butchery of the late Sir Washington Irving Bishop (Kamilimilianalani), a most worthy Mason of the thirty-second degree, the mind reader, and philanthropist

Skinner, William E. (1895). . Wehman Bros. p. 90.

Wehman's wizards' manual; a practical treatise on mind reading, according to Stuart Cumberland and the late Washington Irving Bishop; ventriloquism, as practised by Valentine Vox and others; sleight of hand; secrets and methods of performing many marvelous mysteries, such as have astonished the public of all nations

Thought Reading, Second Sight & Spiritual Manifestations Explained: Showing How the Supposed Phenomena are Produced by Natural Means (1907)

. (1891). Mind-Readers and Their Tricks. In Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap books: Or, Modern Magicians and Their Works. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co. pp. 108–127

H. J. Burlingame

(1964). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney. Duckworth. pp. 80–87.

Trevor H. Hall

The Strange Life & Death of Washington Irving Bishop