Henry William John Edwards

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Henry William John Edwards (1910–1991) was a Welsh author. From a nonconformist background, he converted to Catholicism at the beginning of

Welsh Nationalist associated with Plaid Cymru.[1] He wrote that "The paradox is that the conservative trait has the effect of conserving radical forces."[2]

Life

Edwards was born into a Welsh family in London.[1] He was educated at Mercers' School and the University of Oxford.[3] He lived in Wales from age 19.[1]

Edwards was from a

Quaker family background.[4] In 1938 he was described as a Christian and former Communist.[5] Around that time, he had associations with the British Union of Fascists, attending a meeting hosted by Alexander Raven Thomson, and contributing to the British Union Quarterly.[6]
Of his 1942 conversion to Catholicism, while in the army, he wrote in 1948 that:

When I became a Catholic I was in fact rather embarrassed by those Quakers who gave me credit for an interest in the spiritual life that I did not possess. I did not, as they believed, become a Catholic in a mysterious leap from pole to pole, nor because I saw a similarity in the writings of

St John of the Cross. I became a Catholic simply because I was afraid of going to hell.[4]

In later life Edwards was a supporter of

Rhondda Valley, and he settled in Trealaw in 1947.[1]

Works

Notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1
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  2. ISBN 978-1-78683-013-5
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  3. doi:10.5840/chesterton19911719
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  4. ^
    JSTOR 43812521
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  5. ^ "A True Picture". Sheffield Independent. 28 March 1938. p. 11.
  6. ISBN 978-1-317-12667-6
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  7. ^ Disraeli, Benjamin (1937). The Radical Tory: Disraeli's Political Development Illustrated from His Original Writings and Speeches; Selected Edited and Introduced by H.W.J. Edwards; with a Pref. by G.M. Young. J. Cape.
  8. ^ Edwards, H. W. J. (1938). Young England. Hutchinson & Company.
  9. ^ Edwards, H. W. J. (1938). The Good Patch. J. Cape.
  10. ^ Edwards, H. W. J. (1954). What is Welsh Nationalism?. J.E. Jones.
  11. ISBN 978-0-7154-0088-3
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