Mabel H. Grosvenor
Mabel Harlakenden Grosvenor (July 28, 1905 – October 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American pediatrician. She was a granddaughter and secretary to the scientist and telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.[1] She lived in both Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia and Washington, D.C.[2]
Mabel H. Grosvenor
July 28, 1905
October 30, 2006 (aged 101)
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Father) Elsie May Bell (Mother)
Grosvenor oversaw the steward ship 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 likely the last surviving individual to have personally known and worked with Alexander Graham Bell.[2][3]
Alexander Graham Bell Club[edit]
The Alexander Graham Bell Club, founded in 1891, became Canada's oldest continuing women's club, and grew out of a social organization started at Beinn Bhreagh by Mabel Bell, Grosvenor's grandmother. Grosvenor was made its Honorary President until her death in 2006. The club, originally created as The Young Ladies Of Baddeck Club, was renamed in 1922 after Bell's death, and after Mabel Bell declined the use of her name.[2][3][11]
Mabel Grosvenor (right) with her grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, at Beinn Bhreagh in 1908.
Mabel Grosvenor explores the contents of a box with her grandmother, Mabel Hubbard Bell on the steps of their summer home in Baddeck Nova Scotia.
