Earl Granville, president of the Association for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, Fitzroy-square, presided on Wednesday afternoon at a numerously attended meeting of its friends and supporters, held by permission of the Duke of Westminster at Grosvenor House. His Lordship said that the system had made great progress, and was now generally admitted to be the best mode of teaching the deaf, but he regretted that the institution was much in need of funds, which he hoped would be supplied.—The orchestral concert and annual prize festival of the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, Upper Norwood, was given at the Guildhall on Saturday last, the programme of music being the same as performed before her Majesty at Windsor Castle on the previous Saturday. The Lady Mayoress presented the prizes, and the Duke of Westminster the diplomas.
Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.47