Edward Steane (1798-1882) began his long pastorate of the Baptist congregation at Denmark Place Chapel in Camberwell in 1823, the same congregation in which W. B. Gurney was a member.  After serving as one of the editors of the New Baptist Miscellany, Steane served as secretary of the Baptist Union from 1835 to 1882 and as President in 1860. He was instrumental in the founding of the Evangelical Alliance in 1846, serving as the first editor of its periodical, Evangelical Christendom. He published numerous sermons and other works during his long ministry at Camberwell, including Constitutional Principles of the Christian Church (1838); funeral sermons on W. H. Pearce, BMS missionary in India, and the Rev. John Dyer, Secretary of the BMS; and Memoir of the Life of Joseph Gutteridge, Esq. of Denmark Hill, Surrey (1850). See J. H. Y. Briggs, The English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century (Didcot: Baptist Historical Society, 1994), 233-234.