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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 [1] and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.
The Serampore Trio was the name given to three pioneering English missionaries in India, namely William Carey (1761-1834), a shoemaker, [1] Joshua Marshman, (1768-1837), a schoolteacher, [2] and William Ward (1769-1823), a printer. [3] William Carey arrived in Bengal in 1793 and Marshman and Ward arrived in
Felix Carey (20 October 1786 – 10 December 1822) was a Baptist missionary, the eldest son of William Carey.He was involved in running the printing press of the Serampore Mission that his father had helped establish in India and used his linguistic skills in translating several works into the Bengali language including an attempted encyclopaedia on science.
The Serampore Trio - William Ward, William Carey, & Joshua Marshman, started the college with 37 students in 1818. [4] King Frederick VI of Denmark [ 5 ] originally granted a Royal Charter giving Serampore College the status of a university to confer degrees on 23 February 1827. [ 6 ]
Joshua Marshman was born on 20 April 1768 [2] in Britain at Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England.His father, John Marshman was a weaver. Of his family little is known, except that they traced their descent from an officer in the Army of Cromwell, one of a band who, at the Restoration, relinquished, for conscience-sake, all views of worldly aggrandisement, and retired into the country to support ...
The college was founded by the Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman, William Carey and William Ward (the Serampore trio), to give an education in arts and sciences to students of every "caste, colour, creed or country" and to train a ministry for the growing Church in India. It is located in Serampore in West Bengal, India.
William Carey University president emeritus Tommy King died Tuesday, but his legacy will be remembered for a long time. 'He was a visionary but very humble:' Tommy King left a legacy at William ...
He edited a paper called the Friend of India which was founded at Serampore in 1835 along with John Leechman. [13] [14] William Ward died of cholera in 1823 and Mack served in his place as a pastor at Serampore. He was ordained co-pastor of the Baptist Church in June 1832 and in 1834 he succeeded William Carey as principal of the college.