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THOMAS CHARLES EDWARDS (1837–1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS CHARLES EDWARDS (1837–1900)  , Welsh Non-conformist divine and educationist, was born at
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Bala, Merioneth, on the 22nd of September 1837, the son of Lewis Edwards (q.v.) . His resolve to become a minister was deepened by the revival of 1858-1859 . After taking his degrees at
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London (B.A . 1861, M.A . 1862), he matriculated at St
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Alban Hall, Oxford, in
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October 1862, the university having just been opened to dissenters . He obtained a scholarship at Lincoln College in 1864, and took a first class in the school of Literae Humaniores in 1866 . He was especially influenced by Mark Pattison and Jowett,who counselled him to be true to the church of his
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father, in which he had already been ordained . Early in 1867 he became minister at Windsor Street, Liverpool, but
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left it to become first
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principal of the University College of Wales at
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Aberystwyth, which had been established through the efforts of
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Sir
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Hugh Owen and other enthusiasts . The college was opened with a staff of three professors and twenty-five students in October 1872, and for some years its career was chequered enough . Edwards, however, proved a skilful
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pilot, and his hold on the affection of the Welsh
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people enabled him to raise the college to a high level of efficiency . When it was destroyed by fire in 1885 he collected £251000 to rebuild it; the remainder of the necessary £40,000 being given by the government (£Io,000) and by the people of Aberystwyth (£5000) . In 1891 he gave up what had been the main
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work of his
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life to accept an undertaking that was even nearer his heart, the principalship of the theological college at Bala .

A stroke of

paralysis in 1894 fatally weakened him, but he continued at work till his
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death on the 22nd of March 1900 . The Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales bestowed on him every honour in their possession, and he received the degree of D.D. from the
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universities of
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Edinburgh (1887) and Wales (1898) . His chief
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works were a Commentary on z
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Corinthians (1885), the
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Epistle to the Hebrews (" Expositor's Bible " series, 1888), and The
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God-Man (" Davies Lecture," 1895) .

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