Edward Burn

Edward Burn (1762-1837) was a Calvinistic Methodist, trained at Trevecca College in Wales, a school established by the Countess of Huntingdon in 1768. In the 1780s he obtained a curacy at St. Mary’s, Birmingham, but regularly preached in Dissenting chapels. In 1790 he earned a B.A. from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and returned as minister at St. Mary’s, remaining there for the next forty years. He was involved with the founding of the Church Missionary Society in 1799, served as the first secretary for the Birmingham Auxiliary of the Society, and was sympathetic to the work of the Baptist Missionary Society.