EDMONDES
,
CHARLES GRESFORD
(
1838
-
1893
),
archdeacon and college principal
;
b.
8 Dec. 1838
, eldest son of
THOMAS
EDMONDES
(
1806
-
1892
),
vicar
of
Cowbridge
; his mother (
Harriet Anne
) was a sister of
Charles
Williams
(
1806
-
1877
) (q.v.)
, afterwards
principal
of
Jesus College
,
Oxford
; his brother
FREDERICK
EDMONDES
(
1841
-
1918
) was
archdeacon of Llandaff
. From
Cowbridge
and
Sherborne
schools,
Charles
Edmondes
went up to
Trinity College
,
Oxford
, in
1856
, graduated (
1861
) with a ‘first’ in classical moderations, and was ‘proxime’ for the
Hertford scholarship
. After some years as a
curate
at
Bridgend
, he was from
1865 to 1881
professor of Latin
at
S. David's College
,
Lampeter
. Then, after vicariates at
Boughrood, Rads.
,
1881
, and
Warren, Pembs.
,
1882-8
, he was in
1883
made
archdeacon of S. Davids
. He resigned his office in
1888
to become
principal
of
S. David's College
, and remained there till his health broke down in
1892
. He d.
18 July 1893
. He was for many years an assiduous member of the
Cambrian Archaeological Association
.
Bibliography:
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
Hopkin-James
,
Old Cowbridge. Borough, Church, and
School
, Cardiff, 1922
, 259-61;
-
Archaeologia Cambrensis
,
1893
, 362.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
