Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell 1819-1905, Scottish-American educator, b. Edinburgh. Bell worked out a physiological or visible alphabet, with symbols that were intended to represent every sound of the human voice. He taught elocution in Edinburgh (1843-65), lectured at the Univ. of London and in Boston, and engaged in the education of deaf-mutes in Washington, D.C. He wrote about education and the science of speech. Alexander Graham Bell was his son.
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Rebel earl to get opera treatment; MUSIC.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 1/28/2009; 369 words
; THE historical figure of Silken Thomas is to be immortalised in a new Irish opera. Silken Thomas - Thomas Fitzgerald - was the 10th Earl of Kildare. Born in 1513, he led a series of ill...
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Fitzgerald, Thomas, 10th earl of Kildare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 10th earl of Kildare [I] (1513–37). In 1534 Fitzgerald's father, the 9th earl, was...imprisoned in the Tower in disgrace. Fitzgerald, then Lord Offaly, had been appointed...
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Thomas Fitzgerald Kildare, 10th earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Fitzgerald Kildare, 10th earl of 1513-37, Irish nobleman, called Silken Thomas. When his father, the 9th earl and...charges of maladministration in 1534, Thomas became vice deputy. The same year...
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Thomas Fitzgerald
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Fitzgerald see Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of .
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Ireland, lordship of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...by the late 10th cent., generally...Richard de Clare, earl of Pembroke...emergence of the earls of Kildare as effective...deputy. The Kildare ascendancy continued...rebellion by Thomas FitzGerald , son of the 9th earl, in 1534, which...
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