# William Jones

> Sir William Jones was a Welsh philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster, London to 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.

*Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746–1794)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1746-09-28
- **Died:** 1794-04-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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- [विलियम जोन्स](https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8)
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- [विलियम जोंस (भाषाशास्त्री)](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8_(%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80))
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- [ವಿಲಿಯಮ್ ಜೋನ್ಸ್](https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D)
- [Wikiquote](https://bjn.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Jones_(ahli_basa))
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