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- 1868-1928 (Creation)
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1 envelope.
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The Rev. Thomas Charles Edwards (1837-1900), minister and academic, was the grandson of Thomas Charles (1755-1814), and son of Lewis Edwards, who had opened a religious academy in Bala (later Bala College) in Bala, Merionethshire, with his brother-in-law, David Charles, to train ministers of the Calvinistic Methodist denomination. Thomas Charles Edwards went to Bala College, and then to Oxford, graduating in 1862. He married Mary, née Roberts, and had four children. He became a minister in Liverpool, Lancashire, and in 1872 was appointed first Principal of the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire., a post he held until 1891. He became Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1887. In 1891, he became Principal of Bala College, and he died in 1900.
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Some nineteen letters, 1868-1899, sent to members of the Davies family of Cwrtmawr, mainly from other family members. They include five letters from Eliza Davies (1798-1876) to her son R. J. Davies, 1868-1874, and two to her daughter-in-law Frances Davies, 1869; one letter, together with an empty envelope, from D. C. Davies, Chicago, to his mother Frances Davies, 1890, 1893; and a letter from R. J. Davies to his daughter Mary Elizabeth Davies on her 21st birthday, [1890]. A letter from T. C. Edwards, 1881, is presumably intended for R. J. Davies.
Also included are miscellaneous items relating to the Davies family (and the Ellis family), 1887-1928, including two press cuttings, a photograph, and the title page of R. J. Davies's copy of the Bible.
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- English
- Welsh
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English, Welsh.
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