EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES Welsh Nonconformist divine and educationist, was born at Bala, Merion eth, on Sept. 22, 1837, the son of Lewis Edwards (q.v.). After graduating in London, he matriculated at St. Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1862, obtained a scholarship at Lincoln College in 1864, and took a first class in the school of Literae Humaniores in 1866. In 1867 he became minister at Windsor Street, Liverpool, but left it to become first principal of the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth in 1872. When the college was destroyed by fire in 1885 he collected £25,000 to rebuild it; the remainder of the necessary £40,000 being given by the government (£Io,000) and by the people of Aberystwyth (£5,000). In 1891 he became prin cipal of the theological college at Bala. He died on March 22, 1900. His chief works were a Commentary on 1 Corinthians (1885), the Epistle to the Hebrews (Expositor's Bible, 1888), and The God-Man (Davies Lecture,