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Jones, Sir William, (1746-1794), Knight, orientalist and jurist

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Surname:	Jones
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	William
Gender:	Male
Date:	1746-1794
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Jones, Sir William (1746-1794) Knight Orientalist and Jurist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P148389 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P15832 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir William Jones

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	official records (microfilm)	British Library: Asian and African Studies	Reels 759-780	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
2	drawings and papers	Royal Asiatic Society		See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
3	Chinese-Latin dictionary, prob compiled by Jones	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur C 119	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4	1767-1793: letters to the 2nd Earl and Countess Spencer incl MS journal for 1787	British Library, Manuscript Collections		NRA 10410 Spencer
5	oriental MSS	Oxford University: University College Archives		See Paul Morgan, Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian 1980
6	1786: letters to H Dundas and to C W Boughton Rouse	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD51	NRA 10188 Dundas
7	1784-5, 1793: letters	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report, 1967-68, p39
8	1778-84: letters (11) to Edmund Burke	Sheffield City Archives	WWM Bk1	NRA 1083 Wentworth Woodhouse See Copeland & Smith, Corresp of Burke, 1955
9	c1785: notebook	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	c400	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
10	1773-90: letters (11), mainly to Richard Johnson	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 11095E	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
11	1791-92: letters from Harford Jones	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 4904
12	letters to Samuel Parr and J Miller	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 6701D	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
13	notes on legal cases	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 5476D	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
14	1784-93: letters (13) to Sir Charles Wilkins	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur C 227	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
15	1769-90: letters and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 7033-34, 8885, 8889, 8896

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