Born in Oxford Street, London, on 27 September 1785, Redford was educated at Hoxton College and the University of Glasgow, where he matriculated in 1808 and graduated M.A.
In June 1826 he succeeded Robert Vaughan in the ministry at Angel Street chapel, Worcester.
In 1856 he resigned his charge at Worcester, in poor health, and retired to Edgbaston, Birmingham, so as to be near his friend John Angell James.
He wrote also:[1] In 1837 Redford delivered the Congregational lectures in connection with the Congregational Library, which were published as Holy Scripture verified; or the Divine Authority of the Bible confirmed by an appeal to Facts of Science, History, and Human Consciousness, London, 1837, and 1853.
He was a contributor to the North British Review, the British Quarterly Review and the Eclectic Review; and he edited The Family and Closet Expositor, 1830; The Evangelist (1837 onwards) with John Leifchild; Charles Grandison Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology, 1851; and The Autobiography of the Rev.