Josiah Conder

Josiah Conder (1789-1855) was the son of Thomas Conder (1746?-1831), a London publisher and prominent Independent layman. Josiah took over his father’s business in 1814 and gained considerable recognition for his work as editor of the Eclectic Review (1814-37) and The Patriot (1832-55). In 1810, Conder, along with Jane and Ann Taylor, collaborated on a book of poems, The Associate Minstrels (London: T. Conder, 1810), a volume of poems presented as a gift by Mary Steele Dunscombe of Broughton to her niece (see Whelan, Nonconformist Women Writers, vol. 4, poem 137).