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Dr. Mabel Harlakenden Grosvenor (July 28, 1905 in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia – October 30, 2006 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian-born American pediatrician, and a granddaughter and secretary to the scientist and telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.〔 She lived in both Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia and Washington, D.C.〔 Grosvenor oversaw the stewardship of Bell's legacy Canadian estate at Beinn Bhreagh, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, until her death, and was also the Honorary President of the Alexander Graham Bell Club (founded in 1891), Canada's oldest continuing women's club. The club grew out of a social organization started at Beinn Bhreagh, by Mabel Bell, Alexander's wife. When Grosvenor died in 2006 at age 101, she was the last surviving individual to have personally known and worked with Alexander Graham Bell.〔〔 == Biography == Grosvenor was the third of seven children born to Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966), the father of photojournalism, and the first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine, and to Elsie May Bell (1878–1964), the first child born to Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Gardiner Hubbard.〔〔 Grosvenor was named after her maternal grandmother, Mabel, who was struck with deafness at age five and became, apocryphally, the reason for the invention of the telephone by Mabel's fiancée.〔Martin, Sandra. "Mabel Grosvenor, Doctor 1905-2006", Toronto: ''The Globe and Mail'', November 4, 2006, p.S.11. Proquest document ID: 383502285. Retrieved April 12, 2011.〕〔Toward, Lilias M. (''Mabel Bell: Alexander's Silent Partner'' ), Methuen, Toronto, 1984, p. 1, ISBN 0-458-98090-0, ISBN 978-0-458-98090-1.〕 She lived and grew up in both the Beinn Bhreagh estate where she was born, as well as her parents' home near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. In 1912 her parents moved to a large farm in North Bethesda, Maryland, at what later became the Grosvenor Metro station.〔 Grosvenor was described as intelligent, modest and optimistic, and became one of the first female graduates of the Johns Hopkins University medical program in Baltimore, Maryland. She had earlier studied at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, a liberal arts college for women and one of the oldest of the elite "Seven Sisters" universities in the United States.〔 She graduated from Mount Holyoke Phi Beta Kappa in 1927 and completed her medical degree in 1931. She then became a pediatrician and worked with disadvantaged children in Washington, D.C.'s Children's Hospital, retiring after 35 years of service.〔 Grosvenor never married, had no children, but became the unofficial matriarch to about 60 nieces and nephews of several generations of Bell descendants at Beinn Bhreagh, Baddeck, Nova Scotia. 'Aunty Mabel', as she was known to her extended kin at the estate, was seen as the an important part of the "leadership in the family" at both the Canadian estate and in the U.S. capitol.〔 To the Baddeck community, she was know simply as 'Dr. Mabel'.〔CBC News. (Dr. Mabel, Bell's Granddaughter, Dies ), CBC News website, October 31, 2006. Retrieved May 10, 2012.〕 In her later years she suffered from congestive heart failure but decided to stay on at the Bell estate due to her close relationship with the people of the community.〔〔 She died, aged 101, of respiratory failure on October 30, 2006 at the Bell estate near Baddeck.〔 A funeral service was held for her on November 4, 2006 at Greenwood United Church in Baddeck, and a memorial service was held for her shortly afterwards in Washington, D.C.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mabel H. Grosvenor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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