Serampore Trio
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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 mi) north of Calcutta.[4] They became known as the Serampore Trio.