CAREY, WILLIAM English oriental scholar, and pioneer of modern missionary enterprise, was born at Paulers pury, Northamptonshire, on Aug. 17, 1761. Becoming pastor of a Baptist church in Leicester in 1787 Carey helped to found the Baptist Missionary Society, and was one of the first to go to India, in 1793. At Serampore 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 marquess of Wellesley. He prepared numerous philological works, consisting of grammars and dictionaries in the Mahratta, San skrit, Punjabi, Telinga, Bengali and Bhotanta dialects. From the Serampore press there issued in his lifetime over 200,000 Bibles and portions in nearly forty different languages and dialects, Carey himself undertaking most of the literary work. He died June 9, See Lives by G. "Smith (1884), and S. P. Carey (1923).