plaque № 77986

Northampton, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

William Carey 1761-1834. William Carey, at the time a Northamptonshire shoemaker, was baptised here in the River Nene (since re-routed in order to build the railway station) on 5 October 1783, aged 22. He became a Baptist minister, and went on to become one of the world's best-known missionaries, in

India. William was also known as a wordl-class botanist, linguist, translator, teacher, human rights activist and "friend of India". He founded a university at Serampore, India in 1818, working there

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