1746
William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (died 1794)
William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (died 1794)
William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (died 1794)
William Jones (philologist)
British philologist, scholar and judge (1746–1794)
- Born
- 1746
Sir William Jones was a British philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster to the Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history. He is known for being one of the earliest scholars after father Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784.