Conder, Eustace Rogers

D.D. (Edinburgh, 1882), Congregation alist; b. near St. Albans (the ancient Verulam), Eng., April 5, 1820; educated for the Christian ministry at Spring Hill College, Birmingham; entered, 1838; graduated M.A. in philosophy, with gold medal, at the University of London, 1844; became Congregational pastor at Poole, Dorset, 1844; at Leeds (East Parade Congregational Church), 1861. He was chairman of the Congregational Union in 1873. He is "distinctly and strongly evangelical, with high views of authority of Scripture; but of broad sympathies, unpledged to any party formula or narrow creed." He is the author of Memoir of Josiah Conder (his father, see Encyclopaedia, iii. 2590), London, 1856; Commentary on St. Matthew's Gospel, 1866; Sleepy Forest, and other Tales for Children, 1872; The Basis of Faith, Critical Survey of Christian Theism (Congregational lecture for 1877), 1877, 3d ed. 1886; Outlines of the Life of Christ, 1881; Drops and Rocks, and other Talks with the Children, 1882; a great number of articles in reviews and magazines, lectures, etc.