Braidwood, THOMAS

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 388

Braidwood, THOMAS, born in 1715, studied at Edinburgh University. He settled as a school-master there, and after 1760 became famous as a teacher of the Deaf and Dumb (q.v.). His school, which was visited by Dr Johnson, was afterwards transferred to Hackney, London, where Braidwood died, 24th September 1798.

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