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“they lose the dull heavy look of a deaf mute…”– Oralist supporter, the...
Eliza Frances Boultbee (1860-1925) was the daughter of Marian and James Boultbee. At the time of her birth in Staffordshire, her father was a curate, and in the 1861 census they were staying with her...
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“his client was terribly afflicted, and totally unable give any evidence...
This is a story touching on the life of Emma Conway, a Deaf girl, who was briefly in the news for all the wrong reasons, before sinking again into obscurity. She was born in Staffordshire, at...
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James Herbert Roxburgh, Deaf Hero, 1923 – connecting the dots…
James Herbert Roxburgh was born in December 1898, probably in Dublin. According to his marriage certificate, his father, also James, was a ‘painter [or perhaps printer] traveller’. He may be the...
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” People who can hear think it is rather comic not to be able to, instead of...
In 1927, Neville Chamberlain, then Minister for Health, opened the new Royal Ear Hospital building in Huntley Street. Ninety-two years later, the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, which...
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A Deaf Welsh Swimming Hero, Charles Payne, 1923
In the British Deaf Times for 1923, right below that for Herbert Roxburgh, is the following article on Charles Payne (1894-1979), as another one one of those Deaf swimming heroes. They got his name...
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“His appearance is mild, but rather sullen”– a Manslaughter charge against a...
I came across the following story from the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser for Saturday the 10th of December, 1853: Charge of Manslaughter against a Deaf and Dumb Boy. John...
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A Prize Letter from Abraham Fink to ‘Our Monthly Church Messenger to the Deaf’
Our Monthly Church Messenger to the Deaf was a London-based magazine, that was intended as a national church magazine for the Deaf. One of the main editors was the Reverend Fred Gilby. They had a...
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“the trouble… starting through one of them brushing some water on to the...
Sarah Grainger was born on the 11th of January, 1871, in Stoneyford (a small place right on the railway line that seems to have disappeared from modern maps), Loscoe, Derbyshire, and her birth...
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Mobi Urbanova, Deaf Czechoslovak Dancer (1914-88)
Mobi Urbanova was born Emilie Urbanova, in Prague, on the 24th of July, 1914. It seems that she was Deaf from birth. As it was a period of prewar mobilisation, her family called her ‘Mobi’ and the...
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Charlotte Rolfe, dressmaker –“So fair is the earth, both by night and by day!”
Charlotte Rolfe, or Lottie, was the youngest daughter of Charles Rolfe, a tailor, and his wife Maria Rolfe. She was born in Bury St. Edmunds on the 2nd of February, 1856. There is no suggestion on...
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