Henry Edwards (priest)
Henry Thomas Edwards (6 September 1837 – 24 May 1884) was a Welsh preacher.
Life
Edwards was born at
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.[2]
He became vicar 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.[2] Edwards was also an editor on the monthly Welsh language periodical Amddiffynydd yr Eglwys.[4]
Edwards suffered from overwork and insomnia and a
Mediterranean cruise in 1883 failed to restore his health.[2] He committed suicide at the vicarage, Ruabon; the home of his brother, the Reverend E. W. Edwards.[5]
Notes
- ^ Boase 1889.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Edwards, H. (1869) The Church of the Cymry: A letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Aberdare: W. Morris
- ^ "Welsh Journals Welsh Journals - Browse". journals.library.wales. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ "Suicide Of The Dean Of Bangor". The Cornishman. No. 306. 29 May 2020. p. 5.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Edwards, Henry Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 2–3.
- Boase, George Clement (1889). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Boase, G. C.; Price, D. T. W. "Edwards, Henry Thomas (1837–1884)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8540. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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