Samuel Burder (8 January 1772 – 21 November 1837) was an Anglican clergyman and writer on religious subjects.

Burder was the son of William Burder and Mary James,^[1] and was related toGeorge Burder. Brought up as a dissenter, he was minister of an independent congregation atSt Albans. In 1808 he was admitted toClare Hall, Cambridge, but his name does not appear in the list of graduates. Having conformed to the Church of England, he was ordained in the autumn of 1808 byBishop Barrington of Durham. He was preacher in London atSt Margaret Lothbury, atSt Dunstan's, Fleet Street, and afterwards atChrist Church Newgate. He was appointed (before 1816) chaplain toPrince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, and in 1827 to theEarl of Bridgewater. He died on 21 November 1837.^[2][3]

Burder's works on oriental customs were popular compilations.^[2]Burder was the author of:^[2]

1. The Moral Law ... an Antidote toAntinomianism, 1795.
2. A Christian Directory, 1800.
3. Owen's Display of Arminianism.
4. Oriental Customs in illustration of the Scriptures, 1802 and 1807; several editions and a German translation byRosenmüller, 1819.
5. The Scripture Expositor, 1809.
6. Oriental Literature applied to the Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, 1812.
7. Memoirs of eminently Pious British Women, 1815.
8. Oriental Customs, 1831.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Burder, Samuel".Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 296.

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