Thomas Jones (missionary)
Welsh Christian missionary to India and Bangladesh (1810ā1849) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Jones (24 January 1810 ā 16 September 1849)[1] was a Welsh Christian missionary, who worked among the Khasi people of Meghalaya and Assam in India and of Bangladesh. He recorded the Khasi language in Roman script, and the inscription on his gravestone calls him "The founding father of the Khasi alphabet and literature".
In 2018, the state government announced that 22 June, the date of Jones's arrival at Sohra, would be celebrated as "Thomas Jones Day" every year in the state of Meghalaya.[2]