George Burder

George Burder (May 25, 1752 O.S.^[1] – May 29, 1832) was an English Nonconformist divine.

George Burder, 1812 mezzotint by Henry Hoppner Meyer, after Henry William Pickersgill.

Biography

Burder was born in London. In his early twenties he was an engraver, but in 1776 he began preaching, and was minister of the Independent church at Lancaster from 1778 to 1783. Subsequently he held charges at Coventry (1784–1803) and at Fetter Lane, London (1803–1832). He was one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Religious Tract Society, and the London Missionary Society, and was secretary to the last-named for several years. As editor of the Evangelical Magazine and author of Village Sermons (translated into several European languages), he commanded a wide influence. He died on 29 May 1832, and the following year A Life (by Henry Forster Burder) was published.^[2]

One of his grandsons, George Bernard Burder (1814—1881) converted to Roman Catholicism and became Abbot of Mount St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire.^[3]

Publications

• Village Sermons
• Pneumatologia, Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit
• Essays to Do Good

References

1. "Memoir of the Rev. George Burder, author of "Village Sermons," and Secretary of the London Missionary Society". Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
2. Chisholm 1911.
3. "Burder, Bernard – Biographia Cisterciensis".

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Burder, George". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 809.