EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1848 - 1929), Baptist college principal
Date of birth: 1848
Date of death: 1929
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baptist college principal
Area of activity: Education; Religion
Author: John Williams Hughes
Born at Llanafon, Login, Carmarthenshire, 16 March 1848, son of a monumental mason. From Pontypool Baptist College he went to Regent's Park, graduated in London University, was tutor at Haverfordwest Baptist College 1872-80, and then returned to Pontypool as principal and tutor in New Testament Greek. In 1882 he was one of the chief promoters of University College, Cardiff (of whose council he was a member for the rest of his life); and he was one of the most active supporters of the removal of his own college from Pontypool to Cardiff in 1893.
He published a good many small books, and a more substantial work, Cyfieithiad Newydd o'r Testament Newydd (four vols., 1894, 1898, 1913 and 1915), with critical notes and introductions. In his denomination, he was an energetic administrator; he was chairman of the Welsh Baptist Union in 1906, and of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1911. In politics, he was a strong Liberal and liberationist, and a notable platform orator. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Wales in 1925. He died 28 February 1929.
Author
- Reverend Principal John Williams Hughes, (1888 - 1979)
- T. W. Chance (ed.), The Life of Principal William Edwards, B.A., Ph.D., D.D., LL.D. (Cardiff 1934)
- personal knowledge
Sources
Published date: 1959
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