George Burder (May 25, 1752 O.S.May 29, 1832) was an

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Nonconformist

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Biography

Burder was born in

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. 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

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(1784–1803) and at

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, London (1803–1832). He was one of the founders of the

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, the

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, and the

London Missionary Society The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational miss ...

, and was secretary to the last-named for several years. As editor of the ''

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'' 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 Henry Forster Burder, D.D. (1783–1864) was an English nonconformist minister. Life The eldest son of the Rev. George Burder, and brother of Thomas Harrison Burder, he was born 27 November 1783, at Coventry. He was articled in 1798 to a whole ...

) was published. One of his grandsons, George Bernard Burder (18141881) converted to Roman Catholicism and became Abbot of

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in Leicestershire.

Publications

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

Attribution: * 1752 births 1832 deaths Writers from London English theologians Burials at Bunhill Fields {{Christian-theologian-stub