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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 THOMAS EDWARDS (1837–1884)  , Welsh divine, was born on the 6th of September 1837 at Llan ym Mawddwy, Merioneth, where his
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father was vicar . He was educated at Westminster and at Jesus College, Oxford (B.A., 186o), and after teaching for two years at Llandovery went to
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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 all-round denominationalism in the
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national
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education
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system, and in the same
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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
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Asaph . Edwards became dean of Bangor in 1876 and at once set about restoring the
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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
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insomnia and a Mediterranean cruise in 1883 failed to restore his
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health; and he died by his own hand on the 24th of May 1884 at Ruabon . See V .

Morgan, Welsh Religious Leaders in the Victorian Era .

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