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Alexander Popham (abt. 1649)

Alexander Popham
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Biography

Alexander Popham son of Edward Popham and his wife, Anne Carr, was born deaf in about 1649. His father died in 1651 and some ten years later his mother married Philip, 4th Baron Wharton. It was around 1662 that his mother approached Dr John Wallis of Oxford, asking him to teach her son then aged about 13 to speak. This is one of the first documented cases of a deaf person being taught to speak which he learned to do "plainly and distinctly, and with a good and graceful tone". [1]

With a license granted at Canterbury and dated 16 April 1679 Alexander married Brilliana Harley, daughter of Edward Harley and his wife, Abigail Stephens. [2] [3]

Sources

  1. Wikipedia:William Holder
  2. Marriage Licenses, Canterbury (16 April 1679 Alexander Popham, of Charleton, Somerset, Esq., Bachelor, abt 31, & Mrs Brilliana Harly, of Hereford, Spinster, abt 20; with consent of her father Sir Edward Harlye)
  3. Boyd's marriage indexes, 1538-1850, transcription by Society of Genealogists

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