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See also:MARSHMAN, See also:JOSHUA (1768–1837) , See also:English Baptist missionary and orientalist, was See also:born on the loth of See also:April 1768, at See also:Westbury See also:Leigh, in See also:Wiltshire. He followed the occupation of a See also:weaver until 1794, but having meanwhile devoted himself to study he removed to Broadmead, See also:Bristol, to take See also:charge of a small school. In 1799 he was sent by the Baptist Missionary Society to join their See also:mission at See also:Serampur. Here, in addition to his more See also:special duties, he studied See also:Bengali and See also:Sanskrit, and afterwards See also:Chinese. He translated the See also:Bible into various dialects, and, aided by his son, established See also:newspapers and founded Serampur See also:College. He received the degree of D.D. from See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown University, U.S.A., in 1810. He died at Serampur on the 5th of See also:December 1837. His son, See also:John See also:Clark Marshman (1794-1877), was See also:official Bengali translator; he published a See also:Guide to tke See also:Civil See also:Law which, before the See also:work of See also:Macaulay, was the civil See also:code of See also:India, and wrote a See also:History of India (1842).
Marshman translated into Chinese the See also:book of See also:Genesis, the Gospels, and the Epistles of See also:Paul to the See also:Romans and the See also:Corinthians; in 1811 he published The See also:Works of See also:Confucius, containing the See also:Original See also:Text, with a See also:Translation, and in 1814 his Clavis Sinica. He was also the author of Elements of Chinese See also:Grammar, with Preliminary Dissertation on the Characters and Colloquial Mediums of the Chinese, and was associated with W. See also:Carey in the preparation of a Sanskrit grammar and of a Bengali-English See also:dictionary.
See J. C. Marshman, See also:Life and Times of Carey, Marshman and See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward (2 vols., 1859).
End of Article: MARSHMAN, JOSHUA (1768–1837)
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