page_title: William Jones (philologist)
hierarchical_section_title: William Jones (philologist)
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Sir William Jones (1746-1794)
context_page_description: Sir William Jones FRS FRSE was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European.
  Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the year 1784.
context_section_description: Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European.
  Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the year 1784.
caption: A steel engraving of Sir William Jones, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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