biography
pronunciation:
[kairee]
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| lived:
| (1761–1834)
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| biography:
| Missionary and orientalist, born in Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He joined the Baptists in 1783, and three years later became a minister. In 1793 he and John Thomas were chosen as the first Baptist missionaries to India, where he founded the Serampur mission (1799). From 1801 to 1830 he was Oriental professor at Fort William College, Kolkata (Calcutta). |
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