Probably named for William Carey (1761-1834), an English Baptist missionary whose forty years in India earned him the nickname “the father of modern missions”. Carey also founded Serampore University, India’s first degree-awarding university, in 1829. Pacific Palisades founder Charles H. Scott was a Methodist pastor, and he usually chose notable Methodists as namesakes for this neighborhood’s alphabetical streets (well, mostly alphabetical: there is no “J”). Carey wasn’t a Methodist, but neither was Toyohiko Kagawa, whose name was given to a neighboring street. It’s conceivable that Scott simply wished to honor Carey for his influential work as both missionary and educator.
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