# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-elphinston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:47:54.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-elphinston"
name: "James Elphinston"
slug: "james-elphinston"
description: "James Elphinston was a well noted 18th-century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert."
tagline: "British linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Elphinston.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1721-12-06"
deathDate: "1809-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.936465333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elphinston"
    title: "James Elphinston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elphinston"
    title: "James Elphinston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elphinston"
    title: "James Elphinston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%95%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Џејмс Елфинстон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2878295"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump