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Lewis Edwards

Welsh minister
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Lewis Edwards (born Oct. 27, 1809, Penllwyn, Cardiganshire, Wales—died July 19, 1887) was a Welsh educator and minister of the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales whose literary and theological essays greatly influenced the development of Welsh culture. After ordination in 1837, Edwards married the granddaughter of Thomas Charles of Bala, a Methodist clergyman and Welsh Bible editor. With his brother-in-law David Charles, he opened the Bala Calvinistic Methodist College to prepare men for the ministry;...

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