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Alexander Melville Bell

1819 - 1905

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Alexander Melville Bell (1 March 1819 – 7 August 1905) was a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy and elocution. Additionally he was also the creator of Visible Speech which was used to help the deaf learn to talk, and was the father of Alexander Graham Bell. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Melville Bell is the 183rd most popular linguist (up from 186th in 2019), the 4,670th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,597th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 183 out of 214. Before him are Sergei Starostin, Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Dell Hymes, and Ivan Kuratov. After him are Lev Shcherba, George Perkins Marsh, Ziad Fazah, Kenneth Lee Pike, Ray Jackendoff, and Helmut Rix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 93. Before him are George Salmon, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Narcyza Żmichowska, William Powell Frith, William Muir, and Alexandru G. Golescu. After him are Yuri Samarin, Martin Johnson Heade, Yakov Polonsky, Monier Monier-Williams, William Rosecrans, and Henry Tate. Among people deceased in 1905, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 90. Before him are Simeon Solomon, Victor Borisov-Musatov, William Muir, Theodore Thomas, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, and Lizardo Montero Flores. After him are Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Mabel Cahill, Vjenceslav Novak, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Enoch Sontonga, and Fitzhugh Lee.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 4,671 out of 8,785. Before him are I. J. Good (1916), Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), Gareth Barry (1981), Hugh Hopper (1945), Maud Gonne (1866), and Thomas Walker Arnold (1864). After him are Miriam Rothschild (1908), Amira Casar (1971), Ray Wilkins (1956), Ed Stafford (1975), Dev Patel (1990), and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 15. Before him are James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), Henry Sweet (1845), Henry Liddell (1811), and Oswald Szemerényi (1913). After him are John Eliot (1604), John Rupert Firth (1890), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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