James Elphinston
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1721 – 1809
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Who was James Elphinston?
James Elphinston was a well noted 18th century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert.
Elphinston was a good friend of Samuel Johnson as stated within Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Chapter IV [1750], and tutor of Alexander James Dallas
In 1792 he move to live in Elstree, and finally to Hammersmith in 1806, where he died in 1809.
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