William Jones
1746 – 1794 · aged 48
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746–1794)
- Born
- 28 Sept 1746 · London
- Died
- 27 Apr 1794 · Kolkata
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- 28 Sept 1746BornBorn in London
- 27 Apr 1794DiedDied in Kolkata
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- 1756 – 1763Seven Years' War
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- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
Biography
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) 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.
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