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See also:BRAIDWOOD, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1715-1806) , See also:British teacher of the See also:deaf and dumb, was See also:born in See also:Scotland in 1715, and educated at See also:Edinburgh University. He became a school teacher, and in 176o opened in Edinburgh, with one See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, the first school in See also:Great See also:Britain for the deaf and dumb, following the See also:system of Dr See also:John See also:Wallis, described in Philosophical Transactions suffix in Baluchi, and Men or See also:Min occurs on the lists of the See also:Behistun
See also:inscriptions as the name of one of the Scythian tribes deported by See also:Darius, the Achaemenian, for their turbulence (see See also:Kalat, A Memoir on the See also:County and See also:Family of the Ahmadzai Khans of Kalat, by G. P. See also:Tate). Sajdi, another See also:Brahui tribal name, is Scythian, the See also:principal See also:clan of which tribe is the See also:Saga, both names being identifiable with the Sagetae and See also:Saki of See also:ancient writers. Thus there seems some See also:reason for believing that the former occupants of at least some portions of the Brahui domain were of Scythianblood.
nearly a See also:hundred years before. This school was the See also:model for all of the See also:early See also:English institutions of the See also:kind. Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson visited it in 1773, and describes it as " a subject of philosophical curiosity . . . which no other See also:city has to show," and See also:Braid-See also:wood's dozen pupils as able " to hear with the See also:eye." In 1783 Braidwood moved to See also:Hackney, where he died on the 24th of See also:October 18o6.
End of Article: BRAIDWOOD, THOMAS (1715-1806)
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