Author: Edwards, Frederick
Biography:
EDWARDS, Frederick (1805-66: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 29 July 1805 at Lyme Regis, Dorset, the third of eight children of James Edwards, merchant, and Susan Clarke, who had married on 9 Dec. 1800. They later registered him at Dr. Williams’s Library along with five siblings on 7 Oct. 1814. The reasons for the change to non-conformity are not known. Nothing is known of his education in Dorset but he entered the Middle Temple on 30 May 1831 and was called to the bar on 29 Jan. 1836. His father died at Bath in 1842, leaving generous provision for his children. Edwards married Eliza Browne on 14 Apr. 1836 at St. Bride’s, Fleet Street, London. There does not appear to have been any issue. In addition to the two works listed here, which were both printed at Lyme Regis, he published a Brief Treatise on the Law of Gaming, Horse-Racing, and Wagers (1839). He later worked on the eastern and western circuits and is recorded in Somerset in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses. He was last recorded as the revising barrister in an electoral court in Oct. 1865 at South Moulton, Devon. He died suddenly, probably from a heart attack, on 17 Mar. 1866 at St. Helier, Jersey, and was buried on 22 Mar. (ancestry.co.uk 5 Aug. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 5 Aug. 2023; Sir Henry F. Macgeagh and H. A. C. Sturgess, Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple [1949], 2: 463; North Devon Journal 5 Oct. 1865; GM Apr. 1866, 614) AA