![]() ![]() ![]() 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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