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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Melville Bell has received more than 263,515 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alexander Melville Bell is the 186th most popular linguist (down from 171st in 2019), the 4,596th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,404th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 260k

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  • 44.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 186 out of 214. Before him are Ivan Kuratov, Monier Monier-Williams, John Eliot, Oswald Szemerényi, Ray Jackendoff, and Henry Sweet. After him are Helmut Rix, Gideon Toury, Vladimir I. Georgiev, Viktor Vinogradov, Sture Allén, and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 95. Before him are Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, William Muir, Joseph Bazalgette, Yuri Samarin, Yakov Polonsky, and Monier Monier-Williams. After him are George Salmon, William Rosecrans, Narcyza Żmichowska, Henry Tate, Samuel Brannan, and John W. Geary. Among people deceased in 1905, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 91. Before him are Gyula Szapáry, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Mabel Cahill, Robert Whitehead, Enoch Sontonga, and William Muir. After him are Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Lizardo Montero Flores, Vjenceslav Novak, Fitzhugh Lee, John Henninger Reagan, and George S. Boutwell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 4,596 out of 8,785. Before him are Gerald Scarfe (1936), Delia Derbyshire (1937), Brendan Coyle (1963), Henry De la Beche (1796), Molly Peters (1942), and Deusdedit of Canterbury (600). After him are Theo Walcott (1989), Kay Stammers (1914), Thomas Heath (1861), Malcolm MacDonald (1901), Dele Alli (1996), and Lindsay Hoyle (1957).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Alexander Melville Bell ranks 16. Before him are Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Rupert Firth (1890), John Eliot (1604), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), and Henry Sweet (1845). After him are Henry Watson Fowler (1858), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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