BORN: June 19, 1834 in Kelvedon, Essex, England
DIED: January 31, 1892 in Menton, France.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
The descendant of several generations of Independent ministers, he was born at Kelvedon, Essex, and became a Baptist in 1850. In the same year he preached his first sermon, and in 1852 he was appointed paster of the Baptist congregation at Waterbeach. In 1854 he went to Southwark, where his sermons drew such crowds that a new church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Causeway, had to be built for him. Apart from his preaching activites he founded a pastors’ college, an orphanage, and a colportage association for the propagation of uplifting literature. Spurgeon was a strong Calvinist. He had a controversy in 1864 with the Evangelical party of the Church of England for remaining in a Church that taught Baptismal Regeneration, and also estranged considerable sections of his own community by rigid opposition to the more liberal methods of Biblical exegesis. These differences led to a rupture with the Baptist Union in 1887. He owed his fame as a preacher to his great oratorical gifts, humour, and shrewd common sense, which showed itself especially in his treatment of contemporary problems. Among his works are The Saint and his Saviour (1857), Commenting and Commentaries (1876) and numerous volumes of sermons (translated into many languages).
-The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
BOOKS ON SPURGEON:
C.H. Spurgeon Autobiography Vol. 1: The Early Years
C.H. Spurgeon Autobiography Vol. 2: The Full Harvest
The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain Murray
Spurgeon: A New Biography by Arnold Dallimore
ADDITIONAL LINKS:
John Piper’s Biography of Spurgeon
Biography by W.Y. Fullerton
CCEL Bio (Shown Above)
Wikipedia Bio
The Spurgeon Archive
Spurgeon Gems
The Old Guys 
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