Interested in politics also, she hosted the first women's suffrage league in Brisbane in 1889, and was appointed as the Government representative to a Royal Commission on working conditions in Shops and Factories.

[citation needed] He retired from politics in 1913, due to ailing health,[1] becoming a businessman, publisher and philanthropist.

[citation needed] Edwards died at his residence, "Bryntirion", on Wickham Terrace, on 29 October 1915.

[3] His drapery store, the Edwards and Chapman Building in Queen Street, Brisbane is now listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

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