EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809-1887), Welsh Nonconformist divine, was born in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardigan shire, on Oct. 27, In 1832 he settled as minister at Laugh arne, Carmarthenshire, and the following year went to Edinburgh, where a special resolution of the senate allowed him to graduate at the end of his third session. He was now better able to further his plans for providing a trained ministry for the Calvinistic Methodists; he made his home at Bala, and there, in 1837, with David Charles, his brother-in-law, opened the school that ulti mately became the denominational college for North Wales; a new college was built at Bala in 1867, for which he raised £ro,000.
Edwards may fairly be called one of the makers of modern Wales. Through his hands there passed generation after genera tion of preachers, who carried his influence to every corner of the principality. It was due to him that the North and South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Associations united to form an annual General Assembly ; he was its moderator in 1866 and again in 1876. He died on July 19, 1887.
See Bywyd a Llythyrau y Parch. (i.e., Life and Letters of the Rev.) Lewis Edwards, D.D., by his son T. C. Edwards.