James Elphinston

(1721-1809)

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.
REFERENCES TO James Elphinston: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1802-03 Found 1: ¶ 6 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 46