Edwards, Lewis
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born on | 27 October 1809 at 14:00 (= 2:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Pen-llwyn, Wales, 52n2415, 3w5855 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m3w5855 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister, one of the makers of modern Wales. His chief publication was a noteworthy book on the doctrine of the Atonement, cast in the form of a dialogue between master and pupil.
In 1836 he married Jane Charles, the granddaughter of Thomas Charles (1755–1814), a prominent Calvinistic Methodist minister. Their son Thomas Charles Edwards became the first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
He died on 19 July 1887, aged 77.
Events
- Relationship : Marriage 1836 (Jane Charles)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from Lewis Edwards by D. Densil Morgan (University of Wales Press, 2009), p. 1: "Lewis, the son of Lewis and Margaret Edward, was born at Pwllcenawon in the parish of Llanbadarnfawr in the county of Cardigan the 27 day of October, 1809 at 2 o’clock afternoon."
Categories
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Religion : Ecclesiastics/ western
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy