Edward Bean Underhill (1813–1901) was an English missionary secretary, known as a Baptist historian and biographer.
After the closure of the magazine in June 1849, Underhill became joint secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society (July 1849).
In 1873 he became president of the Baptist Union; in 1876 he was made treasurer of the Bible Translation Society, and in 1880 treasurer of the Regent's Park Baptist College, where he had been a committee member since 1857; he now also turned to literary pursuits, writing biographies of James Phillippo (1881), Alfred Saker (1884), and John Wenger (1886).
[2] Under the title of The Exposition of Abuses in Jamaica he published in 1865 a letter, exposing cruelties of the planters, which he had addressed to Edward Cardwell, the colonial secretary (5 January 1865).
[1] Underhill wrote magazine articles, accounts of Baptist missions, and biographies of James Mursell Phillippo (1881), Alfred Saker (1884), and J. Wenger, D.D.
Other works include Distinctive Features of the Baptist Denomination (1851)[3] and The Divine Legation of Paul the Apostle (1889).