Carey, William, celebrated Baptist missionary, born in Northamptonshire; founder of the Baptist Missionary Society, and its first missionary; founded the mission at Serampore and directed its operations, distributing Bibles and tracts by thousands in native languages, as well as preparing grammars and dictionaries; was 29 years Oriental professor in the College of Fort William. Calcutta (1761‒1834).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Carey, Sir Robert * Cargill, Donald