Please answer the following question: What key details about richard coates can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: richard coates -lrb- born 16 april 1949 , in grimsby , lincolnshire , and educated at wintringham school -rrb- is an english linguist . he is professor of linguistics -lrb- alternatively professor of onomastics -rrb- at the university of the west of england , bristol . from 1977 to 2006 he taught at the university of sussex , where he served as professor of linguistics -lrb- 1991 -- 2006 -rrb- and as dean of the school of cognitive and computing sciences -lrb- 1998 -- 2003 -rrb- . from 1980 -- 9 he was assistant secretary and then secretary of the linguistics association of great britain . he has been honorary director of the survey of english place-names since 2003 , having previously -lrb- 1997 -- 2002 -rrb- served as president of the english place-name society which conducts the survey . from 2002 to 2008 , he was secretary of the international council of onomastic sciences , a body devoted to the promotion of the study of names , and elected as one of its two vice-presidents from 2011 -- 14 and 2014-17 . he was elected a fellow of the society of antiquaries in 1992 and of the royal society of arts in 2001 . his main academic interests are proper names -lrb- both from the historical and the theoretical perspective -rrb- , historical linguistics in general , the philology of the germanic , romance and celtic languages , regional variation in language , and local history . he is editor of the survey of english place-names for hampshire and principal investigator of the ahrc-funded project family names of the united kingdom -lrb- fanuk -rrb- , running from 2010 -- 14 , of which patrick hanks is lead researcher . he has written books on the names of the channel islands , the local place-names of st kilda , hampshire and sussex , the dialect of sussex , and , with andrew breeze , on celtic place-names in england , as well as about 400 academic articles , notes , and collections on related topics . for example , in 1998 , he introduced a new etymology of the name '' london '' , deriving it from the pre-celtic...
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- residence is bristol- known for is historical onomastics , especially place-names , theory of names and naming linguistics philology of northern and western european languages- fields is linguistics- academic advisors is pieter roy a. wisbey , peter rickard , martin harris a. m. seuren , erik c. fudge ,- workplaces is university previously at university of sussex -rrb- of the west of england , bristol -lrb-- doctoral advisor is j. l. m. trim- birth date is 16 april 1949- name is richard coates- citizenship is united kingdom- nationality is english- birth place is grimsby , lincolnshire- religion is none- alma mater is university of cambridge