Admitted 21 February, 1612-3.
Son of Inigo Jones, clothworker, of London, where he was born July 1573. His father was of an old Derbyshire family bearing arms. His admission to the Inn is stated to have been "with permission of Robert Davyds, Esq., late Reader, and other Masters of the Bench," apparently as a special mark of honour. At this time he held the appointment of Surveyor of Works to Henry, Prince of Wales. In 1613 he succeeded to the office of Surveyor-General. His performances as an architect are well known, the most celebrated remaining being the Banqueting House, Whitehall, the Queen's Chapel, St. James's, St. Paul's Church, the Piazza, Covent Garden, and Lincoln's Inn Chapel. The monument, also, in the shape of a Roman altar, erected to George Chapman, the translator of Homer, at the back of the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, was designed by him. He died 21 July, 1652.
He left behind him a large number of drawings and some notes in MS., and a work entitled Stonehenge Restored, which was published three years after his death.
Admitted 19 November, 1770.
Only son of William Jones, the Mathematician. He was born at his father's residence in Beaufort Buildings, Westminster, on 28 Sept. 1746. Although at the time of his admission only twenty-four years of age, he had already won European renown by his acquirements in the study of languages. On being called to the Bar 8 Jan. 1774, he devoted all his energies for a time to legal studies, and not only acquired a mastery of the technicalities of the law, but took up its treatment as a branch of philosophy. In 1776 he was appointed Commissioner of Bankrupts, and in 1783, on the accession of the Shelburne Ministry to power, he was made a Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William. Here he founded the Asiatic Society, and commenced a compilation of Hindu and Mahomedan Law, subsequently completed by H. T. Colebrooke. He died at the early age of forty-eight on 27 April, 1794. His Life has been written by his friend, Lord Teignmouth, and prefixed to his works.
His works were published by his widow in 1799, and again by Lord Teignmouth in 1807. The chief of them appeared separately in the following order: Dissertation sur la Littérature Orientale (1771); A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771); A History of Nadir Shah … with an Introduction containing a Description of Asia, a Short History of Persia, together with an Essay on Asiatic Poetry and the History of the Persian Language (1773); Poems, translated from the Oriental Languages, with Essays on Eastern Poetry and the Imitative Arts (1772—7); Poeseos Asiaticæ, or Commentaries on Asiatic Poetry (1774); A Latin Ode to Liberty, Speeches of Isæus (1779); On the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots (1780); Essay on the Law of Bailments (1781); Mahomedan Law of Succession (1782); The Moalahat … with Translation, etc. (1783); Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into History, etc. … and a Hymn to Comdeo (1784); Charges to the Grand Jury at Calcutta (1785—92); Institutes of Hindu Law (1794); A Tract on Education … with a Tragedy founded on the Story of Mustapha (1797); The Muse Recalled, an Ode (1797); The Principles of Government (1797); Translation of Sacontala, an Indian Drama (1799).
