Lemuel Dole Nelme (born c1718 died 1786[1]) was an English craftsman, now remembered for wide-reaching theories on language.
The son of a Leominster clothworker, he was apprenticed to Thomas Clarke, citizen and fishmonger 6 April 1732 and made free of the City of London in 1743.
His son Lemuel Jones Nelme was baptized at King's Weighouse Chapel 19 August 1749.
He held a Government post as Clerk in 1764, and participated in the Royal Society of Arts at the end of the 1760s.
The lord of the Rangeworthy and Alderley manors was Matthew Hale, Chief Justice of King's Bench.