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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
William Jones
Born: September 28, 1746
Died: April 27, 1794 (aged 47)
Bio: Sir William Jones was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.
Known for:
- The works of Sir William Jones
- A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771)
- Ojibwa Texts