nd Kozeluch. She was a highly esteemed pianist, and Mozart
wrote a concerto for her; she also attained considerable skill on the
organ, in singing and in composition. She made a concert tour of
Europe, visiting the principal courts and everywhere achieving great
success. She remained four months in England, under the patronage of
the queen. On her return to Vienna, through Paris, she met Valentin
Hauy. Towards the close of her life she devoted herself to teaching
singing and the pianoforte with great success.

James Holman (q.v.; 1786-1857), traveller.

William H. Prescott (q.v.; 1796-1859), the American historian.

Several early 19th-century musicians held situations as organists in
London; among them Grenville, Scott, Lockhart, Mather, Stiles and
Warne.

Louis Braille (1809-1852). In 1819 he went to the school for the blind
in Paris. He became proficient on the organ, and held a post in one of
the Paris churches. While a professor at the Institution Nationale des
Jeunes Aveugles, he perfected his system of point writing.

Alexander Rodenbach, Belgian statesman. When a member of the chamber
of deputies, in 1836, he introduced and succeeded in establishing by
law the right of blind and deaf-mute children to an education.

Dr William Moon (1818-1894), the inventor of the type for the blind
which bears his name.

Rev. W.H. Milburn, D.D. (1823-1903), the American chaplain, known in
the United States as "The Blind Man Eloquent." He often travelled from
thirty to fifty thousand miles a year, speaking and preaching every
day. He was three times chaplain of the House of Representatives, and
in 1893 was chosen to the chaplaincy of the senate.

Dr T.R. Armitage (b. 1824). After spending his youth on the continent,
he became a medical student, first at King's College, and afterwards
at Paris and Vienna. His career promised to be a brilliant one, but at
the age of thirty-six failing sight caused him to abandon his
profession. For the rest of his life he devoted his time and fortune
to the interests of the blind. He reorganized the Indigent Blind
Visiting Society, endowed its Samaritan fund, founded the British and
Foreign Blind Association, and, in conjunction with the late duke of
Westminster and others, founded the Royal Normal College.

Elizabeth Gilbert (b. 1826), daughter of the bishop of Chichester. She
lost her sight at the age of three. She