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Oliphant (LAURENCE an English writer)

LAURENCE, an English writer; born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1829. Of good family and position, he roamed over the earth, deeply interested in the mystic philosophy of the East. He published a dozen books, including three novels; several works of a politico-military nature, such as "A Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan" (1860); and various journalistic and philosophic books, like "Episodes in a Life of Adventure" (1887) and "Scientific Religion" (1888).

He died in Twickenham, England, Dec. 23, 1888.