William Carey

English baptist missionary and particular baptist minister (1761-1834).

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 impo

Abbreviations: Carey
Occupations: writer, translator, missionary, botanist, Bible translator
Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Languages: English, Bangla
Dates: 1761-08-17T00:00:00Z – 1834-06-09T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Northamptonshire
Authorship mentions: 4 plants, 0 fungi

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Hedychium flavescens (Yellow-ginger) Carey ex Roscoe 1824
perennial plant species in the zingiberaceae family
Hedychium flavescens is a perennial flowering plant from the Zingiberaceae (the ginger family). It is native to the Himalayas, Sichuan, and northern Vietnam, and naturalized in various other lands (South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, French Polynesia, Hawaii, etc.). Commonly known as cream garland-lily or yellow ginger, it grows up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) high. It is extremely shade-tolerant, and thrives in a wide range of soils. Since it has the ability to regrow from even a small fragment of the rhizome, which survive crushing, immersion in sea water, and even years
Kaempferia marginata Carey ex Roscoe 1824
perennial plant species in the zingiberaceae family
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Crinum erythrophyllum Carey ex Herb. 1820
plant species in the amaryllidaceae family
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Gardenia chinensis Carey ex Voigt 1845
plant species in the rubiaceae family
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