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Born August 17, 1761 • England
Died June 9, 1834 (aged 72) • India
Founder English Baptist Missionary Society
Subjects Of Study Bengali language • Indian languages

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Lucy Whitehead McGill Waterbury Peabody
American missionary
Ram Mohan Roy
Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious leader
Amanda Smith
American religious leader
T.F. Middleton.
T.F. Middleton
British missionary
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Muslim scholar
St. Thomas, stained-glass window
St. Thomas
Christian Apostle
Giovanni da Montecorvino
Franciscan missionary
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Indian social reformer
Duff, Alexander
Alexander Duff
Scottish minister
Sir John Philip Sargent
British statesman
Jean-Antoine Dubois, detail of a lithograph by F.-S. Delpech
Jean-Antoine Dubois
French missionary
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Cromer, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1902; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of Cromer
British diplomat
Bentinck, Lord William
Lord William Bentinck
British government official
1st Viscount Chelmsford
Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
British statesman
Edward VII
Edward VII
king of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Ripon, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1895; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st marquess of Ripon
British statesman
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary