William Jones
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Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- Masters Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir William Jones was a British philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages.
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