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HENRY THOMAS EDWARDS (1837–1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 3 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:THOMAS See also:EDWARDS (1837–1884)  , Welsh divine, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:September 1837 at Llan ym Mawddwy, See also:Merioneth, where his See also:father was See also:vicar . He was educated at See also:Westminster and at Jesus See also:College, See also:Oxford (B.A., 186o), and after teaching for two years at See also:Llandovery went to See also:Llangollen as his father's See also:curate . He became vicar of See also:Aberdare in 1866 and of See also:Carnarvon in 1869 . Here he began his lifelong controversy with See also:Nonconformity, especially as represented by the Rev . Evan See also:Jones (Calvinistic Methodist) and Rev . E . Herber See also:Evans (Congregationalist) . In 1870 he fought in vain for the principle of all-See also:round denominationalism in the See also:national See also:education See also:system, and in the same See also:year addressed a famous See also:letter to Mr See also:Gladstone on " The See also:Church of the Cymry," pointing out that the success of Nonconformity in See also:Wales was largely due to " the withering effect of an See also:alien episcopate." One immediate result of this was the See also:appointment of the Welshman See also:Joshua See also:Hughes (1807—1889) to the vacant see of St See also:Asaph . See also:Edwards became See also:dean of See also:Bangor in 1876 and at once set about restoring the See also:cathedral, and he promoted a clerical education society for supplying the See also:diocese with educated Welsh-speaking See also:clergy . He was a popular preacher and an See also:earnest patriot; his See also:chief defect was a lack of appreciation of the theological attainments of Nonconformity, and a Welsh commentary on St See also:Matthew, which he had worked at for many years and published in two volumes in 1882, was severely handled by a Bangor Calvinistic Methodist See also:minister . Edwards suffered from overwork and See also:insomnia and a Mediterranean cruise in 1883 failed to restore his See also:health; and he died by his own See also:hand on the 24th of May 1884 at See also:Ruabon . See V .

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Morgan, Welsh Religious Leaders in the Victorian Era .

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