Carey
Carey names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Carey WILLIAM, Oriental scholar and missionary
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, Oriental scholar and missionary, born in Northamptonshire, Aug. 17, 1761. He was early apprenticed to a shoemaker, but his natural turn for languages, and his zeal for the spread of the Gospel, were too strong to be overcome. With the little assistance he could procure he acquired Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and likewise studied theology. In 1786 he became pastor of a Baptist congregation at Moulton, and in 1787 was appointed to a similar situation in Leicester. In 1793 he sailed for the East Indies as a Baptist missionary, and in 1800, in conjunction with Marshman, Ward, and others, he founded the missionary college at Serampore. Here he had a printing press, and issued various translations of the Scriptures. His first work was a "Bengali Grammar." It was followed by the "Hitopadesha," in the Mahratta tongue, a "Grammar of the Telinga and Carnatic ," and a "Bengali Lexicon." Under his direction the whole Bible was translated into 6, and the New Testament into 21 Hindustani dialects. He was long professor of Sanskrit, Mahratta, and Bengali, in Calcutta. He died in Serampore, India, June 9, 1834.
Carey HENRY CHARLES, an American economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY CHARLES, an American economist, born in Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1793; trained in his 179 father's publishing house, he accumuence from the business lated a competence and retired to devote himself to study. The "Essay on the Rate of Wages" (1836) and "The Principles of Political Economy' my" (1837-1840) won him an authoritative international position, in spite of what was then an extravagantly unorthodox opposition to Adam Smith and his followers. He next produced: "The Credit System in France, Great Britain, and the United States" (1838); "The Past, The Present, and The Future" (1848); and "The Principles of Social Science" (1858-1859). He died in Philadelphia, Oct. 13, 1879.
Carey MATHEW, an American publisher and prose writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MATHEW, an American publisher and prose writer, born in Ireland, Jan. 28, 1760. The best known of his political writings was his "Olive Branch" (1814). It was an effort to promote harmony among political parpro ties during the War of 1812. It passed ties through ten editions. In 1819 he published his "Irish Vindications," and in 1822, "Essays on Political Economy." He died Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 1839.
Carey ROSA NOUCHETTE, an English novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROSA NOUCHETTE, an English novelist; born at London in 1840. She began her literary career in 1868 and speedily gained a large audience, especially among young girls. She wrote nearly 40 works of which some of the best known are "Wee Wifie" (1869); "Wooed and Married" (1875); "Uncle Max" (1887); and "The Sunny Side of the Hill" (1908). She died in 1909. alwa an English
Carey HENRY, an English poet and playwright
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY, an English poet and playwright; born about 1696; as the author of "Sally in Our Alley" his claim to the notice of posterity is a strong one, and "Namby Pamby" is another of his His farces, among them good songs. "Hanging and Marriage," are not so lively. He died in London in 1743.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All five of these Careys were dead when Collier's compiled these notes in 1921, and the biographical facts still stand. What has moved is their reputations: William Carey, treated here as an "Oriental scholar and missionary," is now routinely called the father of modern Protestant missions, and the Serampore college he helped found in 1818 still teaches in West Bengal, while critics also weigh his translations and his campaigning against sati as part of the machinery of empire. Henry Charles Carey's protectionist "unorthodox opposition to Adam Smith" dropped out of the economics canon almost entirely, though historians of the so-called American School have revived interest in him since the late 20th century. Rosa Nouchette Carey, once read "especially among young girls," went out of print and survives mainly as material for scholars of Victorian girls' fiction and as free digital texts; and the old claim, not made here, that the poet Henry Carey wrote "God Save the King" is now rejected by scholars, while his "Namby Pamby" lives on as an ordinary English adjective.
Written for this edition, 2026.