Sir John Bryn Edwards, 1st Baronet (12 January 1889 – 22 August 1922) was a Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist whose seemingly promising future as a figure of political and social leadership in post-World War I Britain was cut short by death at the age of 33.
Sir John Bryn Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 January 1889 |
| Died | 22 August 1922 (aged 33) |
| Occupation(s) | Ironmaster and philanthropist |
Edwards was educated at Winchester College and received his BA and MA from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. As the owner of a major metalworking concern known as the Duffryn Steel and Tinplate Works, he had the resources to fund a number of philanthropic and charitable endeavours for which he was recognised in the 1921 Birthday Honours[1] by being created, at the unusually young age of 32, a baronet of Treforis in the County of Glamorgan.[2]
Edwards married Kathleen Ermyntrude Corfield, daughter of John Corfield, managing director of Dillwyn & Co, on 18 January 1911. They had a son and a daughter. In the years following his death, Hendrefoilan House, which he purchased in 1920,[3] became part of the campus of Swansea University and was the site, until 2006, of the South Wales Miners' Library.
Footnotes edit
- ^ "No. 32346". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1921. p. 4530.
- ^ "No. 32558". The London Gazette. 23 December 1921. p. 10486.
- ^ Robin Turner (18 October 2012). "Gothic mansion owned by top industrialists named on endangered list". WalesOnline. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
References edit
- Who Was Who, vol II, 1916−1928 (third edition, 1962). London: Adam & Charles Black.
- "Wills and Bequests", The Times, 1 November 1922