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  Willium Carey(1761-1834):-English Missionary and orientalist, born in Paulerspury, near Towcester.  Apprenticed to a shoemaker, he joined the Baptists in 1783, and three years later became a minister.  In 1793, he and John Thomas were chosen as first Baptist missionaries to India, where he founded the Serampur Mission in 1799, and from 1801 to 1830 was Oriental professor at Fort William College, Calcutta.