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 CAREY, MARY (1741–1801)

Of Indian birth: wife of Peter Carey, a seafaring man: the last of the 23 survivors of the 146 persons imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta on June 20, 1756: her husband died there, or afterwards in the fighting at Fulta: her subsequent fate is uncertain, but the tradition of her being carried off by the Nawab's people is not authentic. She married again, her second husband being a military officer. She confirmed, at an interview on Aug. 13, 1799, Holwell's account of the Black Hole tragedy: she died March 28, 1801, at Calcutta.  CAREY, REV. DR. WILLIAM (1761–1834)

Missionary: born Aug. 17, 1761, in Northamptonshire: son of Edmund Carey, a village schoolmaster: apprenticed to a shoemaker at Hackleton: joined the congregation of Baptists in 1783, and at 22 was publicly baptized: studied Greek, Latin and Hebrew under great privations; had charge of a congregation at Leicester in 1789, and joined in forming a Baptist missionary society at Kettering, 1792: sent out as their first missionary to Bengal in 1794, lost all his property in the Hughli and was destitute in Calcutta. After cultivating in the Sundarbans, he became Superintendent of an indigo factory in the Malda district for 5 years, built a church there, and preached in the villages. Being prevented by the E. I. Co. from establishing a mission in British territory, he formed with others, in 1799, a missionary settlement at Serampur under the protection of the Danish Governor, Colonel Bie: there he first translated the Bible into Bengali and printed it, and it was afterwards translated into 26 languages. Carey also published dictionaries and many grammars of languages and other Indian works: edited the Ramayana and Roxburgh's Flora Medica. In 1801 he was appointed to be a Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali and Mahratti at the new College of Fort William, and in 1805 he founded the Bow Bazar Mission Chapel in Calcutta: in 1807 he was made D.D. by the Brown University in the United States. Notwithstanding official warnings against over-zeal his mission prospered, and many out-stations were established: he died at Serampur, June 9, 1834.  CARMICHAEL, DAVID FREMANTLE (1830–1903)

I.C.S.: son of D.D. Carmichael Smyth: he resumed the family name of Carmichael: educated at Harrow and Haileybury, 1849–50: went to Madras in the Civil Service, 1851: Private Secretary to Sir C. Trevelyan when Governor, 1859: Revenue Secretary to Government, 1875: Chief Secretary, 1877: Member of Council, 1878–83: died Sep. 30, 1903.  CARNAC, JOHN (1716–1800)

Entered the E. I. Co.'s service in 1758, as Captain, from H.M.'s 39th regt.: in 1760 commanded at Patna, and in 1761 defeated the Delhi Emperor near Bihar, and took prisoner M. Law with his men: beat off Shuja-ud-daula's attack on Patna, April, 1764: was Brig-General in 1764, and defeated the Mahrattas in the Doab in 1765: received the Emperor Shah Alam and the Wazir Shuja-ud-daula, and closed the war: M.P. for Leominster, 1767: in 1776–9, was Member of Council, Bombay: Member of the Superintending Committee on the expedition against Poona, 1778: and was dismissed the E. I. Co.'s service for his share in the convention of Wargaum, Jan. 14, 1779: died at Mangalore on a sea voyage, Nov. 9, 1800.  CARNATIC, AZIM-UD-DAULA, NAWAB OF THE (1775–1819)

Son of Amir-ul-umra: nephew of Umdat-ul-umra (q.v.), and grandson of Muhammad Ali (q.v.): born 1775: on the death of his uncle, Azim-ud-daula, accepted the British terms, which Ali Husain, the reputed son of Umdat, had refused, and was given the succession. An engagement was made with him on July 31, 1801, by which he gave up the government of the Carnatic to the E.I. Co., and allowances were assigned for his personal expenses and for his family: he lived quietly, and died Aug. 3, 1819.  CARNATIC, GHULAM MUHAMMAD GHAUS, LAST NAWAB OF THE (1824–1855)

Succeeded as a child to his father Nawab Azim Jah, Nov. 12, 1825: instituted as Nawab in 1842 by Lord Elphinstone, Governor of Madras: on his death without issue, Oct. 7, 1855, Government declared the title, privileges, and