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  William Jones - MSN Encarta
William Jones (1809 - 1873) was a poltitical Radical and Chartist, who was a former actor, working as a watchmaker at Pontypool in Monmouthshire and was also keeping a beer...
William Jones VC (1839 - 15 April 1913) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be...
Jones is remembered, however, for the large volume of Indic scholarship that he accomplished in the less than nine years between his first acquaintance with Sanskrit and his death in Calcutta in 1794.
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  William Jones (philologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
Jones was born at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster; his father (also named Sir William Jones) was a mathematician.
Jones is also indirectly responsible for some of the feel of the English Romantic movement's poetry (including the likes of Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge), as his translations of "eastern" poetical works were a source for that style.
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 William Jones (mathematician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir William Jones (1675 – 3 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician.
Jones owed his successful career partly to the patronage of the distinguished Bulkeley family of north Wales, and later to the Earl of Macclesfield.
Jones published Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 1706, a work which was intended for beginners and which included theorem on differential calculus and infinite series.
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 William Jones - LoveToKnow 1911
WILLIAM JONES (1726-1800), English divine, was born at Lowick, in Northamptonshire on the 30th of July 1726.
His vicarage became the centre of a High Church coterie, and Jones himself was a link between the non-jurors and the Oxford movement.
In 1756 Jones published his tractate On the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, a statement of the doctrine from the Hutchinsonian point of view, with a succinct and able summary of biblical proofs.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Jones (statesman)
William Jones (1760–September 6, 1831) was an American politician.
With the War of 1812 raging, Jones became Secretary of the Navy in January 1813.
Jones died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1831.
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 Article: Bio. History of William Jones
William Jones, who had come to Pennsylvania in the year 1793 from Maryland, was a flsmith by trade, and no doubt finding this farm to be a good location, selected it with that object in view.
William Jones and his wife, Elizabeth McClung, who died in 1829, had born to them 12 children, from whom have descended a very numerous line, many of whom are among the most prominent and well-known families of Washington County, as well as in almost every section of the United States.
William Jones was one of the committee on the part of the Methodist Episcopal Church who purchased the dwelling-house (converted into a church) on the river-bank in 1826.
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 rorkesdriftvc.com - Pte. William Jones
William and Elizabeth were married on 25th July 1875 and the marriage certificate shows that 593 Pte William Jones's father, William Jones Snr, is now quoted as deceased; William Jones Snr, was thought to have died at some time prior to 1867.The marriage took place at The Wesleyan Methodist Church, Farnham, Aldershot, Surrey.
William Jones, who we shall now refer to as 593 junior, was born to 593 Pte William Jones and his wife Elizabeth on the 18th November 1876,at Western Heights, Hougham, Dover, County of Kent.
William Jones, 593 jnr's birthplace is misspelled as 'Dovver Barracks'.
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Jones became horrified, jumped up from the couch, stated that she was "not that kind of girl" and said: "Look, I've got to go." She attempted to explain that she would get in trouble for being away from the registration desk.
The outrageous nature of Clinton's branding of Jones as a liar is aggravated in that a greater stigma and reputation loss is suffered by Jones by the statements of the President of the United States in whom the general public reposes trust and confidence in the integrity of the holder of that office.
Clinton's use of force in pulling Jones toward him, his words and acts, and the armed police guard outside the door, in conjunction with the impressive atmosphere of her being alone with the Governor of the State who was also her superior's boss, caused her to be initially and, temporarily afraid to terminate the meeting.
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 rorkesdriftvc.com - Pte. William Jones
At this stage, I decided it pertinent to research all the branches of alleged descendants of William Jones VC and to investigate reports that there were 2 later children born to William Jones VC and Elizabeth Frodsham, in a 'rose-coloured-spectacles' attempt to re-unite all the descendants of William Jones VC.
Kathryn Carpenter was married to William Jones, the son of the Elizabeth Goddard and 593 Private William Jones marriage.
The legacy of that line, the line of William Jones junior, remains in the looks of myself, brother and father, and is the only clue that remains as to the eventual whereabouts of the son born of 593 Private William Jones VC and the ill-fated Elizabeth Goddard.
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 William Jones
William Jones, Fay-Cooper Cole, and Albert Lewis (all Assistant Curators) were responsible for the Smithsonian’s great ethnographic collection from Melanesia and the Philippines, with help from S.C. Simms, Fletcher Gardner and Laura Benedict.
Jones was said to be a student of the Indian and Filipino races, and a friend to all indigenous peoples despite the conditions surrounding his premature death.
Jones was thankful and as a token of his appreciation he gave Romano his wristwatch and gave instructions for the preservation of his notes and specimens.
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 SIR WILLIAM JONES - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM JONES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1764 Jones entered University College, Oxford, where he continued to study Oriental literature, and perfected himself in Persian and Arabic by the aid of a Syrian Mirza, whom he had discovered and brought from London.
In 1772 Jones published a volume of Poems, Chiefly Translations from Asiatick Languages, together with Two Essays on the Poetry of Eastern Nations and on the Arts commonly called Imitative, and in 1774 a treatise entitled Poeseos A siaticce commentatorium libri sex, which definitely confirmed his authority as an Oriental scholar.
Finding that some more financially profitable occupation was necessary, Jones devoted himself with his customary energy to the study of the law, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1774.
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 Sir William Jones - FREE Sir William Jones Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
Jones was celebrated for his understanding of jurisprudence and of Oriental languages.
Jones was the first to suggest that Sanskrit originated from the same source as Latin and Greek, thus laying the foundation for modern comparative philology.
William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'.
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 ELIOHS - Jones - The article in the Dictionary of National Biography, by Henry Morse Stephens
Jones, Sir William 1746-1794, oriental scholar, youngest child of William Jones (1675-1749) [q.v.] the mathematician, was born at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster, on 28 Sept. 1746, and lost his father while a child of three years old.
Jones also took a keen interest in politics, and in 1780 he offered himself as a candidate for the representation of the university of Oxford in the House of Commons.
Jones, on the other hand, came to India with a mind imbued not only with enthusiasm for oriental studies, but with a wider knowledge of classical and other literatures than men sent to India in their early manhood ordinarily possessed.
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 WmJones
Jones proved to be an exemplary student at Hampton and went on to higher educational achievement in the ensuing years by attending Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, Harvard College and Columbia University where he earned a Ph.D. in ethnology under Franz Boas.
Jones was credited with having advocated on behalf of the Ilongots leading to "legislative and administrative measures as have been adopted, calculated to better their condition, that were based directly on information which I received from him," wrote Governor-General James F. Smith upon learning of Jones' death.
Jones' loss of this perspective inevitably led to an increasing intolerance and anger on his part until both he and the Ilongots were at the point of no return.
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Jones was born Oct. 14, 1914, in the northeastern Texas town of Annona.
Jones was a member of the Army Reserve when World War II broke out, and served in the European theater, rising to the rank of captain.
Jones is survived by two sons, Penn Jones III of Fort Worth and Michael Jones of Dallas; and two grandchildren, Melis Jones and Nedgie Jones, both of Irving.
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 Clemency Application for William R. Jones - Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation
Jones relief on his claim that his lawyers were ineffective by not preparing for the penalty phase of his trial.
William Jones, who was 21 at the time of his arrest, was the second child in a violent, chaotic and dysfunctional family.
Jones has shone a harsh spotlight on the inequities and caprices of the American system of justice, which sometimes allows one person to be put to death while another, with the very same claim to relief, obtains justice.
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 Native, Anthropologist, & Native Anthropologist: William Jones and the Making of Fox Texts
William proved to be an exemplary student at the Institute and upon graduating in 1892, receiving two prizes for scholarship.
Jones remarked that “the whole situation was exceedingly absurd (Rideout 1912:121).” He was thus forced to put his marriage to Caroline on hold.
Jones was initially reluctant because he desired to continue his Algonquian linguistic, ethnographic, and folkloric research, but due to a lack of viable financial options he selected the Philippines, thus forfeiting all of his training that had prepared him for a career very different from that which he was about to embark (Rideout 1912:125-129).
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 Jones biography
William was born on a farm in Anglesey and the family moved to Llanbabo on Anglesey, then moved again after the death of William's father.
Jones made a copy of the original Latin, giving it the title Artis analyticae specimina sive geometria analytic and it was this version which was eventually published.
Jones was long associated with the Parker family and lived for long spells at their castle at Shirburn.
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 WILLIAM JONES - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM JONES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1756 Jones published his tractate On the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, a statement of the doctrine from the Hutchinsonian point of view, with a succinct and able summary of biblical proofs.
This was followed in 1762 by an Essay on the First Principles of Natural Philosophy, in which he maintained the theories of Hutchinson in opposition to those of Sir Isaac Newton, and in 1781 he dealt with the same subject in Physiological Disquisitions.
Jones was also the originator of the British Critic (May 793).
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 Jones Family History Pages
On 26 June 1846, William Jones was born in the village of Talyllyn located in Merionethshire, Wales.
William, Elizabeth, Morgan, Lizzie, Annie and Sarah Jones were finally cleared by the immigration officials.
William Jones was not able to enjoy his new status for long.
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 William A. Jones III
Despite searing pains from severe burns sustained on his arms, hand, neck, shoulders, and face, Col. Jones pulled his aircraft into a climb and attempted to transmit the location of the downed pilot and the enemy gun position to the other aircraft in the area.
Jones successfully landed his heavily damaged aircraft and passed the information to a debriefing officer while on the operating table.
Col. Jones' profound concern for his fellow man at the risk of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of this country.
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 William R. Jones
Albert’s purchase, Jones told a few of his friends that his father was going to help him purchase a new white Camaro.
Albert, Jones borrowed a blanket from his roommate stating that his new car had arrived and he didn’t want to get it dirty when he went to pick up some tires.
When police searched the home of William Jones they found shells of the same type that had been found at the scene of the crime.
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 Mr. William A. Jones - biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Though William was but 16 years old, he had previously built a cabin on the other side of the river which apparently was adequate for the remainder of his family (Mother, Father, David, Thomas, and himself) to live in for some time.
William's father had an ardent desire to see his children well educated and all of them excelled greatly in the local public school (which I believe was built on or very near Papa Jones property).
Jones died he had put the house into a trust with sufficient money to maintain and cover the costs of the house far into the future.
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 JONES FAMILY HISTORY
Jones was a man well and favorably known; he had been a reader of the "Advocate" since he came to this county.
WILLIAM B. was born November 03, 1803 in Warwick, New York, and died March 09, 1895.
WILLIAM C. was born September 25, 1830, and died September 1900 in Died in Vet Home in Columbia Falls, Montana in 1900.
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Jones, W. and Furnas, G. W., Nov. 1987, Pictures of relevance: A geometric approach to the analysis of similarity measures.
Jones, W. and Anderson, J.R., 1987, Short‑ vs. long‑term memory retrieval: A comparison of the effects of information load and relatedness.
Jones, W. and Anderson, J. R., Nov. 1981, The use of thematic relatedness in visual and memory search.
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Sir William Jones's celebrated discourse is given here in full to illustrate the context from which linguistics developed in the nineteenth century.
"But the judgement of Sir William Jones was too discerning to consider language in any other light than as the key of science, and he would have despised the reputation of a mere linguist.
Jones (1746?94) was led to his knowledge of Sanskrit through an interest in Hindu law.
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 Biography of Sir William Jones
The author pays tribute Sir William Jones, the great scholar and visionary, who came to India as a judge of the Supreme court, and with the help of Charles Wilkins, in 1784 started the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the journal Asiatic Researches.
Jones arrived in India in September 1783 a judge in the Supreme Court in Calcutta.
Jones realized that it was the East, which held the secrets of early history and civilization of man; and that unless the East was know, the history of man could not be written.
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 Mr Thomas William Jones - Titanic Biography - Encyclopedia Titanica
Thomas Jones from Anglesey, Wales was put in command of lifeboat 8.
The captain asked me if the plug was in the boat and I answered "Yes, Sir" "All right," he said "any more ladies?" He shouted twice again, "any more ladies?" I pulled for the light, but I found that I could not get to it; so I stood by for a while.
In an interview Jones said that there were thirty-five ladies and three men in his boat.
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 Jones, Sir William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Jones was celebrated for his understanding of jurisprudence and of Oriental languages.
Jones founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta.
Jones was the first to suggest that Sanskrit originated from the same source as Latin and Greek, thus laying the foundation for modern comparative philology.
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