CAREY, William, English Orientalist and missionary: b. Paulerspury, Northampton shire, 17 Aug. 1761; d. India, 9 June 1834. He was early apprenticed to a shoemaker, and continued to work at his trade till he was 24. With what assistance he could procure he acquired Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and studied theology. In 1786 he became pas tor of a Baptist congregation at Moulton, and in 1787 was appointed to a similar situation in Leicester. In 1793 he sailed for the East Indies as a Baptist missionary, but became overseer of an indigo factory. He studied languages and natural history, and collected a rich store of Oriental knowledge. In 1800, in conjunction with Marshman, Ward and others, he founded the missionary college at Seram pore; the year following he became professor of Sanskrit, Bengali and Mahratta at the newly-erected Fort William College, Calcutta. In Serampore he had a printing-press for more than 40 different Indian languages, and issued various translations of the Scriptures. His
first work was a Mahratta grammar. It was followed by other works, including a Bengali 'Lexicon> in which he was assisted by Felix Carey, his son. Under his direction the whole Bible was translated into 6 and the New Tes tament into 21 languages or dialects of Hin dustan; and considerable progress was made with the translation of the whole Scriptures into Chinese. He also edited Shroeder's lexi con of the Thibetan language and Roxburgh's