- Title:
- Rev. Thomas Charles Edwards, M.A.[Lond. & Oxon], D.D.[Edin]. Principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Object name(s):
- Prints; Portrait of Thomas Charles Edwards wearing spectacles
- Brief description:
- Portrait of Thomas Charles Edwards (1837-1900), first Principal of University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He wears spectacles, a jacket and has long sideburns. Lithograph drawn with lithographic crayon and touche for inscription
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 339
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 421
- Inscription content:
- (plate) Faithfully yours T.C.Edwards / Woodall, Minshall & Co. / Publishers, Oswestry & Wrexham / Rev. Thomas Charles Edwards, M.A.[Lond. & Oxon], D.D.[Edin]. Principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Material:
- Lithograph in black on thick white wove paper
- Object name:
- Prints; Portrait of Thomas Charles Edwards wearing spectacles
- Object number:
- PR217
- Object production date:
- 1872
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1872
- Date - latest:
- 1890
- Object production organisation:
- Woodall, Minshall & Co., Oswestry & Wrexham
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Anonymous
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's surname:
- Anonymous
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints
- Text:
- Thomas Charles Edwards (1837-1900) was a Calvinistic Methodist minister and preacher. He was appointed as the first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a post he held from 1872 to 1891 before becoming principal at Bala College, a college established by his father, Lewis Edwards, in 1837. He studied at Oxford and was awarded degrees from Edinburgh University and the University of Wales. See OP48 for another portrait of Thomas Charles Edwards
- Text reason:
- Collections online text
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0758c49c-0b41-3043-ad42-5bb27f35e805, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC
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