Edward Steane

Edward Steane (1798–1882) was an English Baptist minister and one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance.

Life Steane was born in March 1798 in Oxford. His father dealt in wines and spirits and the family attended New Road Baptist Church. Steane went to school where he was taught by James Hinton and became a lifelong friend with his son, John Howard Hinton. Steane's interests were at the New Road church and although he briefly worked as a chemist the church agreed that he was to be a minister. He was sent for training at Bristol Baptist College and then unsuccessfully at Edinburgh University. In 1834 he married Mary Stevenson, the granddaughter of Abraham Booth, another Baptist minister, and they had five children. caption=Steane is in the painting, which is of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.

Steane also helped found the Bible Translation Society charity after the British and Foreign Bible Society refused to fund a translation.

In 1846 Steane was appointed as one of the people required to set up a conference that resulted in the Evangelical Alliance. He is seen as one of the founders and he edited the organisation's periodical, Evangelical Christendom.

Steane's failing health caused the church to appoint Rev Charles Stanford as a co-pastor at Camberwell in May 1858. Three years later Stanford took the job on full-time, but Steane was left with the title of Pastor until 1866. His first wife, Mary, died in 1862 and in 1864 he married Eliza Pigeon and gave up editing the Evangelical Christendom.

Steane died at his home near Rickmansworth.