William Jones (philologist)
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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
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1767–1769
Tomb of William Jones in South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata.
Statue of Jones in St Paul's Cathedral, London
The Asiatic Society
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The Asiatic Society is a learned society under the Ministry of Culture, founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of "Oriental research". It was founded by the philolog
William Jones (philologist)
…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. William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for…
The Asiatic Society old building in Kolkata
The Asiatic Society building, Park Street, Kolkata, April 2013.
The Bairat Minor Rock Edict of Ashoka (circa 250 BCE) is visible at the Asiatic Society.
The Arabic, Persian and Urdu section of the Asiatic Society.