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Edward Douglas Fawcett (11 April 1866 - 14 April 1960) was a novelist, philosopher, and mountaineer from England. Edward Douglas Fawcett was born on April 11, 1866 in Hove, Sussex. He was the older brother of explorer Percy Fawcett and the eldest son of Edward Fawcett, an equerry to the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII). He attended Newton Abbot College in Devon and was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School beginning in 1880. Fawcett became a Buddhist after taking the pansil (the lay follower pledge to the Five Precepts) in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) with Henry Steel Olcott in January 1890. He was a friend of Russian magician Helena Blavatsky, the founder of the esoteric religious movement Theosophy. He helped her with her writing and assembling quotations from scientific books for The Secret Doctrine, particularly the sections of the second volume on evolutionary ideas. Fawcett joined the editorial team of The Theosophist, the Theosophical Society's monthly periodical, and wrote letters for the magazine Lucifer.

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