Burder, GEORGE

Burder, GEORGE, Congregationalist minister, was born in London in 1752. He studied for an artist and engraver, but in 1776 began preaching, and in 1778 was appointed pastor at Lancaster. He removed in 1783 to Coventry, and in 1803 to London. Here he became secretary to the London Missionary Society, and editor of the Evangelical Magazine. He died 29th May 1832. His Village Sermons have been translated into many languages; and he was the author of other series of sermons and publications which have had an immense circulation. See his Life by H. Burder (1833).