It used comma-like symbols to indicate word groupings and emphasis, forming the basis of a system to visualize speech and the underpinning of a vocation that would concern three generations of Bells. These events prompted him in 1834 to move with his youngest son, Melville, to London, where a year later he published The practical elocutionist. It was during a journey to Edinburgh by his wife, to deliver the manuscript, that an acquaintance discovered her affair, which culminated in divorce.
He soon turned his interest to speech impediments, particularly stammering, and began work on a textbook. The grandfather’s love of acting led him to develop his skills in speech, which resulted in his move to Dundee in 1826 to teach elocution full-time. 1922 near Baddeck, N.S.Īlexander Bell owed much to his paternal grandfather, Alexander, who had moved away from Fifeshire, where several generations of the family had toiled as shoemakers, to blaze a career in the emerging art and science of elocution. 11 July 1877 Mabel Gardiner Hubbard in Cambridge, Mass., and they had two sons and two daughters d. Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 3191862īELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM, teacher of the deaf, inventor, and scientist b. 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, second son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds m.
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