[3][4] His paternal grandfather Lewis Edwardes was a schoolmaster with an academy near Streatham Common, described by his pupil John Beames as "a short, stout kindly old Welshman.
[9] Stephen Edwardes studied at Christ Church, Oxford;[1] but may not have been an undergraduate, since his name is absent from Foster's matriculation list covering 1880 to 1892.
[15] As Police Commissioner Edwardes was a noted reformer, regulating prostitution and controlling disturbances arising from ethnic and religious tensions.
[16] He regarded the activism of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a Chitpavan Brahmin, as consciously employing offence to Muslims.
[22] Frank Arthur Money Vincent, a career police officer, acted under Edwardes as Deputy Commissioner, CID, from 1909, and succeeded him.
Finally garrison troops — the Warwickshire Regiment under Brigadier John Swann — fired on the crowd, after Edwardes had requested the use of force through a Presidency magistrate.
[27] Among those actively cooperating with the police, and mentioned in Edwardes's account, was the Sunni merchant Sulliman Cassim Mitha.
[28][29] In 1916 Edwardes was made Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, but bad health meant he stepped down shortly from the post.
[31] Edwardes had a London post as Secretary to the Indo-British Association, a pressure group set up by George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe.