Thomas Herbert Noyes (1827–1909)
Civil servant and spiritualist. BA, Oxford, 1849. Entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1853. Worked in the office of the secretary of state for the Home Office; retired by 1871. Justice of the peace for Sussex. Found guilty of libel in 1878; in the course of the trial, he stated that he had been ‘charged with lunacy, being a spiritualist and planchette writer’. Committed to Broadmoor asylum by 1891. Author of Hymns of modern man.