In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association ( in French, l ’ Association phonétique internationale ).

Halliday ) ( born 13 April 1925, Leeds, Yorkshire, England ) is a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language.

* April 28 – Duncan Forbes, British linguist ( d. 1868 )

John Enoch Powell, MBE ( 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998 ) was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, linguist and soldier.

A British missionary Bob Chiggleson ( 1854 – 1944 ) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for " fire " ( fuchi ) of the fire deity ( Kamui Fuchi ), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( 1882 – 1971 ) on the grounds of phonetic development ( sound change ).

This kind of pangram arose from some verbal horseplay between Douglas Hofstadter, Rudy Kousbroek ( a Dutch linguist and essayist ) and Lee Sallows ( a British electronics engineer ).

* Basil Bernstein ( 1924 – 2000 ), British sociologist and linguist

In his later years he helped to found oriental studies in France, learning Sanskrit from the British linguist Alexander Hamilton, who he had helped to protect during the Napoleonic era.

Sir Henry " Harry " Hamilton Johnston, GCMG, KCB ( 12 June 1858-31 July 1927 ), was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the " Scramble for Africa " that occurred at the end of the 19th century.

David Crystal, a British linguist at the University of Wales, projected in 2004 that at about 350 million, the world's Hinglish speakers may soon outnumber native English speakers.

* Charles Bagot Cayley ( 1823 – 1883 ), British linguist and friend of Christina Rossetti

* Paul Hopper, American linguist of British birth

Archibald Henry Sayce ( 25 September 1846-4 February 1933 ), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.

John Harington Gubbins ( 1852-1929 ) was a British linguist, consular official and diplomat.

* John C. Wells ( born 1939 ), British linguist, phonetician and Esperantist

* David Crystal, British linguist and author

Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, CBE, FBA ( born 1920 ) is a British linguist.

* John McHardy Sinclair ( 1933 – 2007 ), British linguist, Professor of English Language

** David Dalby, British linguist, founder of Linguasphere Observatory

He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist ( historical linguist ) and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum.

* Richard Francis Burton ( 1821-1890 ), British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat

* John Harington Gubbins, British linguist

The term phonestheme ( or phonaestheme in British English ) was coined in 1930 by British linguist J. R. Firth ( from the Greek φωνή phone, " sound ", and αἴσθημα aisthema, " perception " from αίσθάνομαι aisthanomai, " I perceive ") to label the systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

Adam Smith wrote in Wealth of Nations that Britain should liberate all of its colonies and also noted that it would be economically beneficial for British people in the average, although the merchants having mercantilist privileges would lose out.

* 1976 – Adam Powell, British businessman

From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.

* 2011 – Mark Ryan, British musician ( Adam and the Ants ) ( b. 1959 )

Adam Smith himself, for instance, praised the Navigation Acts as they greatly expanded the British merchant fleet, and played a central role in turning Britain into the naval and economic superpower from the 18th Century onward.

* 1939 – Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer ( d. 2003 )

* 1978 – Adam Jennings, British actor, producer, and director

Bentine was born Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire, of a Peruvian father, Adam Bentin, and a British mother, Florence Dawkins, and grew up in Folkestone, Kent.

* 1982 – Adam Carroll, British racing driver

promoted the careers of British rock and rollers like Marty Wilde and Adam Faith.

Natural theology strongly influenced British science, with the expectation as expressed by Adam Sedgwick in 1831 that truths revealed by science could not conflict with the moral truths of religion.

** Adam Pengilly, British skeleton racer

** Adam Godley, British actor

* June 28 – Adam Woodyatt, British actor

* March 3 – Robert Adam, British architect ( b. 1728 )

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

The statue of Sir Frederick Adam, a British governor of Corfu, is at the front.

* John Hugh Watson ( 1914 – 2007 ), known as Adam Watson, British international relations theorist and researcher, and ambassador

British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

British designers with works in the collection include William Kent, Henry Flitcroft, Matthias Lock, Thomas Chippendale, James Stuart, William Chambers, Robert Adam, John Gillow, James Wyatt, Thomas Hopper, Charles Heathcote Tatham, Pugin, William Burges, William Morris, Charles Voysey, Charles Robert Ashbee, Baillie Scott, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Edward Maufe, Wells Coates & Robin Day.

Brother Adam had to replenish the bee colonies as 30 of the monastery's 46 colonies had been wiped out by a disease called " acarine ", all the bees that died were of the native British black bee.