Baptist Missionary Society
Marshman supplied the Serampore mission with its schoolroom. Joining Carey in 1800, he and his wife Hannah turned teaching into a system, growing a small boarding school into a wide network. Alongside the classroom he took his share of the mission's heavy translation work, one of the three men whose partnership made Serampore far more than the sum of its parts.
If Carey was the mission's translator and Ward its printer, Marshman was its schoolmaster — the one who built the rooms where the next generation would learn to read what the others made.
Roles
Regions
What they did
- One of the Serampore trio alongside Carey and Ward
- With his wife Hannah, built up a network of mission schools
- Shared in the translation labours of the Serampore mission
Society
Sources: carey-faithful-witness p.18 · carey-myers-life p.59