Researching William Carey
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5647 people with the Carey surname? In that year Carey was ranked number 751 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
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| Did you know that there are currently 10991 people with the Carey surname in the UK? Carey is now ranked number 528 for popularity in the UK. |
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William Carey (missionary)
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.
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 Frederiksnagar 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.
Carey is known as the "father of modern missions." His essay, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens, led to the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society. The Asiatic Society commended Carey for “his eminent services in opening the stores of Indian literature to the knowledge of Europe and for his extensive acquaintance with the science, the natural history and botany of this country and his useful contributions, in every branch.”
He translated the Hindu classic, the Ramayana, into English, and the Bible into Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit. William Carey has been called a reformer and illustrious Christian missionary.
Source: William Carey (missionary), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Carey (politician)
William Carey (5 February 1887 – 22 January 1928) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Redfern to labourer Patrick Carey and Margaret Fitzgerald. He was a union organiser with the Water and Sewerage Board Employees Association. On 12 May 1915 he married Margaret Ellen Joyce, with whom he had three children. From 1919 to 1927 he was general secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party, and from 1925 to 1928 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Carey died at Petersham in 1928.
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