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William Carey

1761 - 1834

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Carey is the 208th most popular biologist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 1,124th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 824th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Biologist.

William Carey is most famous for being the father of modern missions. He was a British Baptist missionary to India, and he was the first person to translate the Bible into an Indian language.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Carey ranks 208 out of 1,097. Before him are César Milstein, Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, Hans Driesch, and George Wald. After him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Olaus Rudbeck, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Nikolay Pirogov, Stephan Endlicher, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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Among people born in 1761, William Carey ranks 9. Before him are Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Marie Tussaud, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Jan Potocki, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and August von Kotzebue. After him are Philippe Buonarroti, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Smithson Tennant, José, Prince of Brazil, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Sineperver Sultan. Among people deceased in 1834, William Carey ranks 13. Before him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Jacques Balmat, Husein Gradaščević, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, William Wirt, and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 1,124 out of 8,785. Before him are Melanie C (1974), Roy Harper (1941), Mike Newell (1942), John Gray (1948), Dave Mackay (1934), and George Gilbert Scott (1811). After him are John Tenniel (1820), Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484), George Vancouver (1757), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Philippa of England (1394), and Arthur Drewry (1891).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 37. Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), Anna Atkins (1799), Julian Huxley (1887), and Joseph Banks (1743). After him are Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), William Aiton (1731), and Charles Bell (1774).

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