College On 5 July 1818, William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward (another member of their missionary team) issued a prospectus (written by Marshman) for a proposed new "College for the instruction of Asiatic, Christian, and other youth in Eastern literature and European science". Thus was born Serampore College, which still continues to this day. At times funds were tight, and after a brief and false rumour alleging misapplication of funds caused the flow of funds being raised by Ward in America to dry up, Carey wrote, Dr. Marshman is as poor as I am, and I can scarcely lay by a sum monthly to relieve three or four indigent relatives in Europe. I might have had large possessions, but I have given my all, except what I ate, drank, and wore, to the cause of missions, and Dr. Marshman has done the same, and so did Mr. Ward. Works References Bibliography External links Bengal Obituary – 1848 1768 births 1837 deaths People from Westbury, Wiltshire Translators of the Bible into Chinese Bengal Presidency Baptist missionaries in India English Baptist missionaries Missionary educators Founders of Indian schools and colleges 19th-century Baptists 18th-century Baptists British Indologists British people in colonial India British people of French descent Missionary linguists Scholars from West Bengal