Sir William Jones (1746–1794)

Sir William Jones (1746–1794), coloured steel engraving after Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) by James Posselwhite (1798–1884), 19th century; source: Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford: The Letters, ed. by Peter Cunningham, London 1857; The James Smith Noel Collection, Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, http://www.jamessmithnoelcollection.org/images/sir%20william%20jones.jpg.

The British jurist and orientalist Sir (from 1783) William Jones, puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Bengal (1783) and founder of the Asiatic Society (1785), greatly encouraged oriental studies in the West and made noted contributions to the studies of Sanskrit and ancient Indian law.

Sir William Jones (1746–1794), coloured steel engraving after Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) by James Posselwhite (1798–1884), 19th century; source: Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford: The Letters, ed. by Peter Cunningham, London 1857; The James Smith Noel Collection, https://www.jsnoelcollection.org/, Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, https://www.jsnoelcollection.org/17th-and-18th-century-portraits.html.