The Serampore Trio was the name given to three pioneering English missionaries in India, namely William Carey (1761-1834), a shoemaker, [1] Joshua Marshman, (1768-1837), a schoolteacher, [2] and William Ward (1769-1823), a printer.[3] William Carey arrived in Bengal in 1793 and Marshman and Ward arrived in 1799. As missionaries were prohibited from working in areas controlled by the British East India Company, they selected as their base a Danish trading post in the village of Serampore, 13 km (8.1 miles) north of Calcutta.[4] They became known as the Serampore Trio.
- ^ Beck, James R. Dorothy Carey: The Tragic and Untold Story of Mrs. William Carey. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1992.
- ^ J.C.Marshman - Carey, Marshman & Ward (1864)
- ^ Stennett's "Memoirs of the Life of William Ward", 1825
- ^ "Serampore". National Museum of Denmark. Retrieved 20 September 2023.