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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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Transcripts by Thomas Charles Edwards (1837-1900) of letters from Lewis Edwards (1809-1887) to his parents and brother and from them to him, 1829-1830, of a letter from John Elias (1774-1841), 1828, to the church at Jewin Crescent, London, and of a letter, 1827, from David Jones and Peter Davies, Llangeitho, to Lewis Edwards. The material appears to have been intended for inclusion in Thomas Charles Edwards's proposed biography of his father.
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Creator ref. no.: E. Penllyn Jones MS 2
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 2892C