ID
0141
Nationality
English
British
Occupation
?
Summary
Resident of Burntwood, England. Described by John Bulwer in either Chrologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand or in Chironomia, or The Art of Manual Rhetoric (both 1648) as having become so proficient in the use of a manual alphabet, "contryved on the joynts of his fingers", that his wife could converse with him easily, even in the dark.
References
The Conquest of Deafness, p.54.
Dates
fl. 1648