| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elphinston, James, 1721-1809 DNB: Elphinston, James (1721-1809), educationist and advocate of spelling reform LBT ID: JaElphi1809 VIAF ID: 18016434 LOC ID: n85111493  | B/BAP:   1721-12-06 DIED: 1809-10-08  | 
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Scottish linguist, author, schoolmaster, and friend of Samuel Johnson; Robert Charles
                        Dallas was one of his pupils.  | |