Roger Edwards (Calvinist)

(1811 – 9 July 1886) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist, who later became prominent in Wales as a press editor and publisher.

Edwards was born in 1811, the year in which the Calvinistic Methodists first assumed the power to ordain their own ministers; and he grew up in Dolgellau[1] amid the controversy over Calvin's five great points.

The leaders in the Chronicle for 1836 on the "House of Lords", "The Ballot" and "Church Rates" were strongly radical, and they brought on young Edwards the charge of socialism and sympathy with Tom Paine.

In January 1845 there appeared the first number of the Traethodydd, of which he was co-editor with his namesake Lewis Edwards until 1855, and after that with another until his death in 1886.

Owen's first two novels, Y Dreflan and Rhys Lewis, appeared in Y Drysorfa during Edwards' editorship.