Henry Edwards (priest)

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Henry Thomas Edwards (September 6, 1837 – May 24, 1884) was a Welsh preacher.

He was born at Llan-ym-Mawddwy, Merioneth, where his father was vicar. He was educated at Westminster but left Westminster in his seventeenth year with the intention of proceeding to India, but, changing his mind, studied for twelve months under the Rev. F. E. Gretton at Stamford School. ^[1]

He went up to Jesus College, Oxford (B.A., 1860), and after teaching for two years at Llandovery went to Llangollen as his father's curate.

He became vicar of Aberdare in 1866 and of Carnarvon in 1869. Here he began his lifelong controversy with Nonconformity, especially as represented by the Rev. Evan Jones (Calvinistic Methodist) and Rev. E. Herber Evans (Congregationalist). In 1870 he fought in vain for the principle of allround denominationalism in the national education system, and in the same year addressed a famous letter to Mr. Gladstone on The Church of the Cymry, pointing out that the success of Nonconformity in Wales was largely due to the withering effect of an alien episcopate. One immediate result of this was the appointment of the Welshman Joshua Hughes (1807-1889) to the vacant see of St Asaph. Edwards became dean of Bangor in 1876 and at once set about restoring the cathedral, and he promoted a clerical education society for supplying the diocese with educated Welsh-speaking clergy. He was a popular preacher and an earnest patriot; his chief defect was a lack of appreciation of the theological attainments of Nonconformity, and a Welsh commentary on St. Matthew, which he had worked at for many years and published in two volumes in 1882, was severely handled by a Bangor Calvinistic Methodist minister. Edwards suffered from overwork and insomnia and a Mediterranean cruise in 1883 failed to restore his health; and he committed suicide at Ruabon.

References

↑ Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Vol. 17

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

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James Cotton James Vincent Henry Edwards Evan Lewis John Pryce Griffith Roberts Henry James Thomas Williams John Thomas Davies John Richards Islwyn Davies Gwynfryn Richards Benjamin Vaughan Ivor Rees Thomas Edwards Trevor Evans Alun Hawkins Sue Jones

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Name	Edwards, Henry Thomas
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Short description	British preacher
Date of birth	September 6, 1837
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Date of death	May 24, 1884
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