CADMAN, SAMUEL PARKES (1864-1936), American clergyman, author and lecturer, was born in Wellington, Shrop shire, England, on Dec. 18, 1864. He graduated with honours from Richmond college, Surrey, in 1889. In 1890 he went to the United States and in 1895 was appointed the leader of the for ward movement in New York City Methodism. In 1901 he was called to the pastorate of the Central Congregational Church of Brooklyn. He was elected president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in 1924, and in 1928 was chosen by this council and the National Broadcasting Company of Amer ica as their official radio preacher.
He is the author of William Owen, A Biography (191o) ; The Religious Uses of Memory (1911) ; Charles Darwin and other English Thinkers (191I) ; The Three Religious Leaders of Oxford (1916) ; Ambassadors of God (1920) ; Christianity and The State (1924) ; Imagination and Religion (1926) ; and Pro Christo (1928).