Edwards, Lewis

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Name
Edwards, Lewis Gender: M
born on 27 October 1809 at 14:00 (= 2:00 PM )
Place Pen-llwyn, Wales, 52n2415, 3w5855
Timezone LMT m3w5855 (is local mean time)
Data source
Bio/autobiography
Rodden Rating B
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_scocol.18.gif 03°46' s_mo.18.gif s_gemcol.18.gif 20°35 Asc.s_aqucol.18.gif 07°29'



Lewis Edwards (circa 1875)

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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

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