Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Jones, (Sir) William
Jones, (Sir) William, s. William, of Beaufort Buildings, Westminster, arm. University Coll., matric. 15 March, 1764, aged 17; fellow 1766, B.A. 1768, M.A. 1773, 'Orientalist,' bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1774, a commissioner of bankrupts 1776, a judge in Supreme Court of Judicature, Bengal, and knighted 19 March, 1783, died 27 April, 1794. (Monument in St. Paul's Cathedral and a statue in Bengal.)