Life

The eldest son of the Rev. George Burder

George Burder

George Burder was an English Nonconformist divine.-Biography:Burder was born in London on the 5 June 1752. 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 ...

, and brother of Thomas Harrison Burder

Thomas Harrison Burder

-Life:He was born in 1789 at Coventry in England, where his father George Burder was a Congregationalist minister. He originally wanted to become a chemist, but after a while he decided to pursue the medical profession. Burder went to the University of Edinburgh in 1812, and took the degree of M.D....

, he was born 27 November 1783, at Coventry

Coventry

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. He was articled in 1798 to a wholesale firm based in Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

 and London

London

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In London he attended the Weigh-house Chapel, and decided to devote himself to the ministry. He became a student in Hoxton Academy, and then in 1804 entered the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

, where he took his M.A. degree in 1807, and subsequently that of D.D. After his graduation Burder became classical tutor at Wymondley College; he resigned this appointment in 1808. He was (31 October 1811) assistant to the Rev. Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer (biographer)

-Life:He was born at Bedford, was educated at Bedford grammar school, and then studied for the ministry at Daventry Academy under Caleb Ashworth....

 of St. Thomas's Square Congregational Chapel, Hackney, and on Palmer's death was ordained to his pastorate on 2 March 1814. From 1810 he also filled the chair of philosophy and mathematics at Hoxton College, until it moved to Highbury

Highbury

- Early Highbury :The area now known as Islington was part of the larger manor of Tolentone, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Tolentone was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Road. The manor house was situated by what is now...

 in 1830.

He was chairman of the Congregational Union in 1844. He remained at Hackney till 1852. He delivered on 26 December 1852, and later published, ‘A Pastor's Farewell,’ London, 1853. His congregation presented him with a purse of £1,000, with which a Burder scholarship was founded at New College, London. He then lived in the house of his eldest son at Hatcham Park, where he died 29 December 1864. He is buried at the non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney, is a historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney and Dr. Isaac Watts, and the neighbouring Hartopp family. In 1840 it became a non-denominational garden cemetery, semi-public park arboretum, and...

, in Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington is a district in the London Borough of Hackney. It is north-east of Charing Cross.-Boundaries:In modern terms, Stoke Newington can be roughly defined by the N16 postcode area . Its southern boundary with Dalston is quite ill-defined too...

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Works

Burder had many sermons printed in collections. His main works were:

• ‘The Scripture Character of God, or Discourses on the Divine Attributes,’ London, 1822.
• ‘Mental Discipline, or Hints on the Cultivation of Intellectual Habits, addressed particularly to Students in Theology and Young Preachers,’ London, 1822, and other editions.
• ‘Lectures on the Pleasures of Religion,’ London, 1823, Philadelphia, 1839, &c.
• ‘Lectures on the Essentials of Religion, personal, domestic, and social,’ London, 1825.
• A collection of ‘Psalms and Hymns, principally for Public Worship,’ London, 1826, third edition, 1845, and others.
• ‘Pastoral Discourses on Revivals in Religion,’ London, 1829.
• ‘Memoir of the Rev. George Burder,’ London, 1833.
• ‘Notes on the Prophecies of the Apocalypse,’ London, 1849.
• ‘Sermons preached at St. Thomas's Square Chapel, Hackney,’ London, 1854.

Family

Burder was twice married: first, in 1810, to Ann, eldest daughter of Joseph Hardcastle of Hatcham House, New Cross, London, who died in 1827, leaving a daughter and three sons; and secondly, in 1833, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. Tayler of Whitlinge, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

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, who died in 1859 and is buried with her husband at Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney, is a historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney and Dr. Isaac Watts, and the neighbouring Hartopp family. In 1840 it became a non-denominational garden cemetery, semi-public park arboretum, and...

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