Yes, Alec, it is I, your father, speaking.
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Showing all quotesBirth: | 1st March, 1819 |
Death: | 7th August, 1905 |
Nationality: | American, Scottish |
Profession: | Author, Lecturer, Researcher |
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Alexander Melville Bell was a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy and elocution. Alexander Melville Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1843 to 1865 he lectured on speech elocution at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 1870 at the University of London. In 1868, and again in 1870 and 1871, Melville lectured at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Massachusetts after having moved to Canada. In 1870 he became a lecturer on philology at Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario; and in 1881 he moved to Washington, D.C. Alexander Graham Bell was his son.
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