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Born December 18, 1818 • England
Died October 10, 1894 (aged 75) • Brighton • England
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Mary Garrett
American educator
Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
American educator
Laura Bridgman, 1878.
Laura Dewey Bridgman
American educator
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
American author and educator
Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
American educator
Edouard Séguin
American psychiatrist
Edward Miner Gallaudet
American educator and administrator
Louis Braille
Louis Braille
French educator
sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Carole Pateman
political scientist and educator
portrait of Joseph Lancaster
Joseph Lancaster
British educator
Dame Marie Rambert
ballet producer, director, and teacher
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
American physicist
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Manuscript copy sheet by Edward Johnston, 1918; in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Edward Johnston
British calligrapher
A.S. Neill
British educator and author
Albert Mansbridge, portrait by John Mansbridge (his son), 1947; National Portrait Gallery, London
Albert Mansbridge
English educator
Yousuf Karsh: Lord Beveridge
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge
British economist
Quintin Hogg
Quintin Hogg
British educator