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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Marshman    
First Name(s)  Joshua    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Rev. D.D.    
Birth Year  1768    
Death Year  1837    
Entry  Son of John Marshman, a weaver : born April 20, 1768 : educated at the village school of Westbury Leigh : apprenticed to a bookseller and read unceasingly : was master of a Baptist school, 1794-9, when, with his son and others, he went out to Serampur in Bengal, as a Missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society, not being allowed to remain in British territory : the Serampur Church was opened in 1805 : he and his wife opened a boarding school : he studied Chinese : established the Loll Bazar Chapel and the Benevolent Institution at Calcutta, and devoted much time to native schools. The Mission translated the Scriptures into many Oriental languages. Marshman was . made D.D. of Brown University, U.S., in 1811 : he and his son issued the Friend of India as a monthly and, later, a quarterly Magazine : in 1818 they issued the first Bengali weekly newspaper, the Samachar Darpan, and built the Serampur College at a cost of £30,000 : in 1826-9 he visited England and Denmark to urge on the cause of missions. In 1827 he became involved in controversy with the Baptist Missionary Society, and their connexion was severed. Besides Chinese, he worked at Sanskrit and the local vernaculars : he died at Serampur on Dec. 5, 1837.     
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