ID
0922
Nationality
Scottish
British
Occupation
Deaf-blind
Summary
Born in Wigtown; blind and then deaf at age 9 from scrofula. Rejected by the Edinburgh school for the deaf, he entered the Edinburgh school for the blind instead in 1870. Learned 6 different reading systems for the blind and then British fingerspelling. A biographical tract appeared in 1881 as Story of a Blind Mute.
References
Touch, Touch, and Touch Again, p.43-46.
Dates
1860-1877