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Roger Edwards

Short Name: Roger Edwards
Full Name: Edwards, Roger, 1811-1886
Birth Year: 1811
Death Year: 1886

Edwards, Roger, a celebrated Welsh Calvinistic minister, was born at Bala, Jan. 22, 1811. He was closely associated with the literary productions of the Calvinistic Methodists, and was editor for many years of their magazine and their reviews. He died at Mold, July 19, 1886. He edited a denominational hymn-book in 1840, for which he wrote several hymns. He also published a volume of moral and sacred songs in 1855.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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