CAREY, William, a celebrated Baptist missionary and oriental scholar, was born at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, in 1761. When a youth he wrought with his father, who was a shoemaker, and before he was twenty years of age he joined the Baptists, and devoted a large portion of his time to village preaching. In 1787 he became pastor of a Baptist congregation in Leicester, and five years after was chosen by a Baptist missionary association to proceed to India as their missionary. On reaching Bengal, Carey and his companions lost all their property in the Hooghly; but having received the charge of an indigo factory at Malda, he was soon placed in a favourable position for prosecuting the work of translating the Bible into Bengalee. In 1799 he quitted Malda for Serampore, where he established a church, a school, and a printing press for the publication of the Scriptures and philological works. In 1801 Carey was appointed professor of oriental languages in a college founded at Fort-William by the Marquis of Wellesley, and soon after received a doctor's degree from his native country. From this time till his death he devoted himself to the preparation of numerous philological works, consisting of grammars and dictionaries in the Mahratta, Sanscrit, Punjabee, Selinga, Bengalee, and Bhotanta dialects. The Sanscrit dictionary was unfortunately destroyed by a fire which broke out in the printing establishment. From the Serampore press there were issued no fewer than 24 different translations of the Scripture, which were all edited by Dr Carey. He died in 1834.