Rogers, HENRY, born October 18, 1806, and educated at Highbury College, became a Congregationalist preacher, and was successively professor of English at University College, London, and of Philosophy at Spring-Hill Independent College, Birmingham, and principal of the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester. He contributed a long series of admirable critical and biographical articles to the Edinburgh Review. He died in North Wales, August 20, 1877. A selection of these articles was republished (3 vols. 1850-55).
Other books were a Life of John Howe (1836); The Eclipse of Faith (1852), an admirable piece of argument, and its Defence (1854), in reply to F. W. Newman;
Essay on Thomas Fuller (1856); Selections from the Correspondence of R. E. H. Greyson [anagram of his name] (2 vols. 1857); and The Superlunarian Origin of the Bible, Congregationalist Lectures (1873).