Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards (born 11 November 1943)[1] is an emeritus academic at the University of Oxford.

[2] He was educated at Ampleforth College before reading History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied for a doctorate after taking the Diploma in Celtic Studies under Sir Idris Foster.

[2] His expertise is in the fields of the history and language of Wales and Ireland, during the so-called Irish Dark Age (during the Roman Empire) and the general "Dark Ages", which followed the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west.

He was elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.

[6] He is a great-grandson of Thomas Charles Edwards, first Principal of Aberystwyth University.