Tickner Edwardes

He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War in Gallipoli and then running a laboratory in Egypt.

[1] He designed the 'Tickner Edwardes' beehive which took standard British frames but was heavily insulated, and the simplified Unit Hive for commercial beekeeping which had identical brood chambers and honey supers.

[4][5] In it Edwardes describes a journey across Southern England saying “My plan consisted in waiting by the roadside or strolling gently onward, until something on wheels, it mattered not what, overtook me...by dint of laying under use the whole gamut of country perambulation, at length, after many days of travel, I found myself at my journey's end.

Powys especially "liked the toughwood texture of his bodily presence ... His long nose, his opaque, ivory-parchment skin, his tree-root neck, his shy, nervous, wild-animal brown eyes ...

He possessed that grave, solid, imperturbable reserve, that stiff pride, mixed with disarming spasms of humility, that have characterized so many of the old-fashioned interpreters of English piety.

Portrait by Elliott & Fry c. 1940–44
His grave at the church of St Mary in Burpham . The Latin text is Santorum amicus profecto amicos reperiet , "a friend of the saints shall surely find friends."