Day, Lal Behari, 1824-1892 or 1894

found: Banglapedia, via WWW, November 21, 2019(Day, Rev. Lalbehari (1824-1894) Writer, Babgali missionary, born in a poor suvarna-banik family in the village of Sonapalsahi in Burdwan district; converted to christianity by Rev. Krishna Mohan Banerji in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district; wrote two novels, Chandramukhi, A Tale of Bengali Life (1859) and Govinda Samanta; at Burdwan, Lalbehari also started collecting folk tales, which were later anthologised in his Folk Tales of Bengal (1875)) - http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Day,_Rev._Lalbehari

found: Wikipedia, November 21, 2019(Lal Behari Dey; Reverend Lal Behari Dey (Bengali also transliterated as Lal Behari Day) (18 December 1824 - 28 October 1892) was a Bengali Indian journalist, who converted to Christianity, and became a Christian missionary himself; born on 18 December 1824 to a Subarṇa-banik caste family at Sonapalasi near Bardhaman; wrote two books in English, Govinda Samanta (1874, later renamed Bengal Peasant Life) and Folk-Tales of Bengal (1883); In 1874 his Govinda Samanta won the prize of Rs 500 offered by Baboo Joy Kissen Mookerjea of Uttarpara, one of the most enlightened zamindars in Bengal, for the best novel, written either in Bengali or in English, illustrating the "Social and Domestic Life of the Rural Population and Working Classes of Bengal"; hough Lal Behari's writings were mostly in English, he edited a Bengali monthly magazine, Arunaday (1857) and penned a Bengali narrative, Chandramukhee. He was also the editor of three English magazines, Indian Reformer (1861), Friday Review (1866) and Bengal Magazine (1872). Apart from writing in these magazines, Lal Behari also contributed articles to Calcutta Review and Hindu Patriot; died in Calcutta)

found: Great Christians commemorated by the Indian church, 2009, via Google books, viewed November 21, 2019:page 51 (Lal Behari Dey; born at Talpur in Burdwan District on December 1, 1824; ordained as missionary and minister of the Free Church of Scotland in 1853; journalist and writer in English; died on November 5, 1894)

found: The Scottish Cemetery in Bengal website, November 21, 2019(Lal Behari Day; Last Name: Day; First Name: Lal Behari; Titles: Reverend. Date of birth: 1824; year of death: 1891; date of death: 1891; Ethnicity / Origin: Bengali; Age at death: 67; Gender: Male; Occupation: Missionary; Residence: Calcutta; Place of birth / origin: Talpur, Burdwan; Place of death: Calcutta; eminent Bengali Christian missionary and educationist who was a student and later, a colleague of Alexander Duff. He was also a pioneer of Indian writing in English and wrote Govinda Samanta or Bengali Peasant Life (1874) and Folk Tales of Bengal (1883); he was born Kala Gopal Dey [his name was changed to Lal Behari later on] on 18 December 1824; died on 28 October 1892, at Calcutta)