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William Jones

1746–94

Orientalist and judge. Judge of the high court in Calcutta, 1783–94. Founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784. FRS 1772.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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