Thomas Harrison Burder was born in 1789 at
Coventry in England, where his father
George Burder was a Congregationalist minister. His elder brother,
Henry Forster Burder DD, was born in 1783, and also became a minister. T H Burder originally wanted to become a chemist, but after a while he decided to pursue the medical profession. Burder went to the
University of Edinburgh in 1812, and took the degree of M.D. in 1815. While in Edinburgh Burder was elected president of the
Royal Medical Society. He suffered from poor health. He settled in London as a physician, and was for a time attached to the
Westminster General Dispensary; he had to take respites from medical work. He had married his cousin, Elizabeth Burder, in 1828, and his father George had passed the last four years of his life under their roof. After his death in 1832 Dr. Burder began to think seriously of leaving London, and this plan he carried out in 1834. He died at
Tunbridge Wells in 1843 at the age of 54. He left no family, and his widow died in the following year. ==Work==