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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
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
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)
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
NRA 1083 Wentworth Woodhouse

See Copeland & Smith, Corresp of Burke, 1955
9
c1785: notebook
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
10
1773-90: letters (11), mainly to Richard Johnson
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
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
12
letters to Samuel Parr and J Miller
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
13
notes on legal cases
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
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
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
15
1769-90: letters and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections