The Life of William Carey
George Smith · The Shoemaker Who Became the Father of Modern Missions
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The Life of William Carey by George Smith
George Smith’s The Life of William Carey is the classic Victorian biography of William Carey (1761–1834), the Northamptonshire shoemaker who became the father of modern Protestant missions. It follows Carey from his boyhood and apprenticeship in Paulerspury, through the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society, his voyage to Bengal, thirty-four years at Serampore alongside Joshua Marshman and William Ward, his work translating and printing the Scriptures into some thirty-six Indian and Asian languages, his professorship in Sanskrit, Bengali and Marathi, his contributions to botany and agriculture in India, the founding of Serampore College, and his death in 1834. An appendix reproduces the Charter of Incorporation and Statutes of Serampore College and the Treaty transferring Serampore to the British Government, followed by the author’s own footnotes. This UECF.NET web edition follows the source PDF and preserves its chapter order, headings, dates, quotations, references, and wording.
- 16 Chapters
- 1 Preface
- 1 Appendix
- 152 source pages
- 138,799 words
- ≈ 1068 min read
- English
Source PDF: The Life of William Carey, by George Smith (public domain; first published 1885, this text reflecting a later revised edition — the Appendix notes a College scheme “while this volume is in the press (1909)”). A note in the source: notes 7–14 are absent from the printed footnote sequence in the source PDF itself and are reproduced here exactly as found, without invented content.
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Table of Contents
≈ 63 min2The Birth of England’s Foreign Missions
≈ 70 min3India as Carey Found It
≈ 61 min4Six Years in North Bengal—Missionary and Indigo Planter
≈ 79 min5The New Crusade—Serampore and the Brotherhood
≈ 50 min6The First Native Converts and Christian Schools
≈ 68 min7Calcutta and the Mission Centres from Delhi to Amboyna
≈ 64 min8Carey’s Family and Friends
≈ 74 min9Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali, and Marathi
≈ 64 min10The Wyclif of the East—Bible Translation
≈ 85 min11What Carey Did for Literature and for Humanity
≈ 49 min12What Carey Did for Literature and for Humanity (continued)
≈ 84 min13Carey’s Immediate Influence in Great Britain and America
≈ 109 min14Carey as an Educator—The First Christian College in the East
≈ 56 min15Carey’s Christian University for the People of India
≈ 13 min16Carey’s Last Days
≈ 79 min