Edward Steane (1798–1882) was a British Baptist minister of a church in Camberwell and one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance.

[1] He returned to London where after a brief trial he started on his long career as minister at Denmark place in Camberwell.

[5] In 1846 Steane was appointed as one of the people required to set up a conference that resulted in the Evangelical Alliance.

[6] Steane's failing health caused the church to appoint Rev Charles Stanford as a co-pastor at Camberwell in May 1858.

His first wife, Mary, died in 1862 and in 1864 he married Eliza Pigeon and gave up editing the Evangelical Christendom.