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Henry Forster Burder <ref name="term_28532" />

<p> an English Congregational minister, was born at Coventry, Nov. 27, 1783. He became a devoted [[Christian]] at the age of ten, received his preliminary education at [[Coventry]] and Homerton, and his ministerial training at Hoxton College and at the University of Glasgow. On returning home, Mr. Burder became a tutor at Wymondley for a year; then copastor at [[Thomas]] Square, Hackney; and, on the death of his senior, he succeeded to the sole pastorate. While at [[Hackney]] he was chosen to fill the chair of philosophy and mathematics at Hoxton and Highbury colleges, which he occupied from 1807 to 1829, when he resigned the professorship. In his seventieth year he retired to Hatcham, near Peckham, where he died, Dec. 29, 1864. The high regard cherished towards Dr. Burder by the people of Hackney was manifested in their presenting him with a purse of 1000 when he relinquished his ministry with them. This money he applied to the founding of the " Henry Forster Burder Scholarship " of New College, value 30 per annum, and tenable for three years. Dr. Burder published, Lectures on the Pleasures of [[Religion]] (1823, 8vo):-Lectures on the Essentials of Religion (1825, 8vo) :-Mental [[Discipline]] (5th ed. Lond. 1846, 8vo), to which is appended an Address on [[Pulpit]] Eloquence, by the Rev. Justin Edwards:- also some other works. See (Lond. ) Cong. Year - book, 1866, p. 239; Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. </p>

 

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