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Also known as W. Carey, Carey

English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)

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Within Vinony's link graph, William Carey is referenced by 533 other articles, and connects out to Melbourne, Kolkata and East India Company.

Vinony files it under 1761 births, 1834 deaths and 18th-century English Baptist ministers.

Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion
  • William Carey
  • Beautiful Killing
  • Jesus in Cowboy Boots
  • Conversion of the Heathens

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1969-03-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
4

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Quotes

  • Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.
  • The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.

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Key facts

Born
( 1761-08-17 ) 17 August 1761, Paulerspury , England
Died
9 June 1834 (1834-06-09) (aged 72), Serampore , Bengal Presidency, British India

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1761-08-17
date of death
1834-06-09
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William Carey (missionary)
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William Carey
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Encyclopedic overview

William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.

He went to Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1793, but was forced to leave the British Indian territory by non-Baptist Christian missionaries. He joined the Baptist missionaries in the Danish colony of Frederiksnagore in Serampore. One of his first contributions was to start schools for impoverished children where they were taught reading, writing, accounting and Christianity. He opened the first theological university in Serampore offering divinity degrees, and campaigned to end the practice of sati.

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