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    James Elphinston (December 6, 1721 – October 8, 1809) was a well noted 18th-century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert...
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  • 1804 – Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777) 1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish orthographer, phonologist, and linguist (b. 1721) 1821 –...
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    (1688–1766) accountant-general and politician, Lord Provost of Edinburgh James Elphinston (1721–1809) educator and linguist Robert Erskine (doctor) (1677–1718)...
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  • Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French minister and politician (d. 1794) 1721 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and linguist (d. 1809) 1732 – Warren Hastings...
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    Sir Edward Denny (1796–1889) composer, resident of Manor of Elstree. James Elphinston (1721–1809) Scottish educator, moved to Elstree in 1792. Percy Everett...
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    Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824) December 6 James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (d. 1809) Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de...
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    (b. 1737) Caroline Schelling, German scholar (b. 1763) October 8 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721) October 11 – Meriwether Lewis, American...
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    family moved to Edinburgh and then to London. There he studied under James Elphinston, a Scottish educator and linguist. He planned to study law, but was...
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  • Baronet (1880–1970) (claimed title 1927) Sir John Elphinston, 11th Baronet (1924–2015) Sir Alexander Elphinston, 12th Baronet (born 1955) The heir apparent...
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    "Letters from William Hillman to James Harris". Hampshire Archives Catalogue. Retrieved 2 October 2018. James Elphinston, “Forty years' correspondence between...
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  • Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (c. 1710–1739), of the Elphinstone baronets James Elphinston (1721–1809), Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist, and linguistics...
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  • Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824) December 6 James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (d. 1809) Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de...
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  • Charles Dallas was educated at Musselburgh, in Scotland, and under James Elphinston at Kensington, London. He entered the Inner Temple, but on coming of...
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  • Matthew Boulton, manufacturer and engineer (born 1728) 8 October – James Elphinston, philologist (born 1721) 30 October – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd...
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  • Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone (1828–1893), Scottish politician James Elphinston (1721–1809), Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics...
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  • James Elphinston, philologist (died 1809) 5 February – James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, statesman and soldier (born c. 1673) 16 February – James Craggs...
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  • Atholl Queensberry, dec 8 November 1712 James Hamilton Pencaitland Blairhall, dec 5 June 1714 James Elphinston Coupar Bowhill, dec 23 November 1714 Sir...
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  • Melvill, British Army general and antiquary (born 1723) 8 October – James Elphinston, philologist (born 1721; died in London) 18 December – Alexander Adam...
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    Mary of Guise (category Court of James V of Scotland)
    Lady Elphinston, Lady Livingston and Coullombe (senior). The unmarried "demoiselles" were Margaret Hume, Margery Livingston, Jean Elphinston, Jean Murray...
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  • Dictionary of the Kurds. Scarecrow Press. pp. 274–276. ISBN 978-0-8108-7507-4. Elphinston, W. G. (1946). "The Kurdish Question". Journal of International Affairs...
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  • and poet (died 1772) 6 December – James Elphinston, philologist (died 1809 in England) Earliest likely date – James Grainger, physician, poet and translator...
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  • election in 1802. Dallas and his brother Robert were educated first at James Elphinston's school in Kensington and then in Geneva by the pastor Chauvet. After...
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    Cornhill, London. He and his brother George were educated first at James Elphinston's school in Kensington, and then in Geneva, by the pastor Chauvet. He...
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    Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone (category Court of James VI and I)
    died in 1638, an inventory was taken of his possessions at the Place of Elphinston, or Elphinstone Tower, which had been sealed in a coffer. The goods included...
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    Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet (20 November 1805 – 26 December 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House...
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    Baronet (c. 1600-c. 1644) Sir John Johnston, 2nd Baronet (died c. 1666) Sir James Johnston, 3rd Baronet (died c. 1700) Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet (1743–1795)...
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    155. Gérard de Nerval. Journey to the Orient, III.3.1–12. Trans. Conrad Elphinston. Antipodes Press. 2013. Spleth, Janice (2002). "The Arabic Constituents...
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    William Elphinstone (category Court of James IV of Scotland)
    edited by C. Innes (Aberdeen, 1854) Alexander Gardyne, Theatre of Scottish Worthies and Lyf of W. Elphinston, edited by David Laing (Aberdeen, 1878)....
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  • their mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Samuel Johnston, 1st Baronet of Elphinston, they were driven from their house which was plundered, and the whole...
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    Kurdistan, 1835-1844. Chicago Review Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-89733-657-4. Elphinston, W. G. (January 1946). "The Kurdish Question". Journal of International...
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