Desmond Gerald Fitzgerald (1834–1905) was an English electrician and spiritualist.
Fitzgerald founded a weekly magazine known as Electrician in 1861. It later became a monthly magazine.Brock, William Hodson. (2008). William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science. Ashgate Publishing. p. 246. Fitzgerald was also involved in improving the manufacture of white lead.Chemical News, September 25, 1874 cited in William Crookes. The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science. London: Henry Gillman. p. 158
Fitzgerald was a vice-president of the British National Association of Spiritualists and an editor for a spiritualist journal Spiritual Notes. He was a convinced believer in mesmerism and spiritualism. He also defended the discredited "Odic force" of Carl Reichenbach.Noakes, Richard. (1999). Telegraphy is an Occult Art: Cromwell Fleetwood Varley and the Diffusion of Electricity to the Other World. The British Journal for the History of Science 32: 421-422.
He was an early council member of the Society for Psychical Research.McCorristine, Shane. (2010). Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920. Cambridge University Press. p. 110.
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