Henry Edwards (priest)

[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.

In 1870 he fought in vain for the principle of allround denominationalism in the national education system, and in the same year addressed a famous letter to W. E. 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.

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.