Roger Edwards (wool Merchant)
Roger Edwards may refer to: *Roger Nicholas Edwards (1934–2018), British politician and a former Secretary of State for Wales *G. Roger Edwards (1915–2009), American archaeologist and curator for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. * Roger Edwards (Calvinist) (1811–1886), Welsh Calvinistic Methodist * Roger Edwards (politician) (born 1946), Falkland Islands politician *Roger Edwards (meteorologist) Roger Edwards is an American meteorologist and expert on severe convective storms (thunderstorms). He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the '' Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology'' (''EJSSM''). Biography Edwards was born in D ...

Roger Nicholas Edwards
Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC (25 February 1934 – 17 March 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as an MP from 1970 until 1987 and as Secretary of State for Wales during the first two terms of the Thatcher government. Early life Edwards was educated at Westminster School and, after completing National Service in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in history in 1957. He was a director of William Brandt's insurance brokers and became a member of Lloyd's in 1965. Political career Edwards left insurance to take Desmond Donnelly's old seat of Pembroke and served as Secretary of State for Wales in Margaret Thatcher's first and second administrations. He was adopted by the Pembrokeshire Conservative Party as parliamentary candidate for Pembroke in 1968. At the 1970 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, which he represented until his retirement ...
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Roger Edwards (Calvinist)
Roger Edwards D.D. (1811 – 9 July 1886) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist, who later became prominent in Wales as a press editor and publisher. Early life Edwards was born in 1811, the year in which the Calvinistic Methodists first assumed the power to ordain their own ministers; and he grew up in Dolgellau amid the controversy over Calvin's five great points. Ebenezer Morris, John Elias, etc., were then leading lights in the denomination. In 1835 he became editor of ''Cronicl yr Oes'', perhaps the first Welsh political paper. This he conducted for four years, writing most of it himself. The leaders in the ''Chronicle'' for 1836 on the "House of Lords", "The Ballot" and "Church Rates" were strongly radical, and they brought on young Edwards the charge of socialism and sympathy with Tom Paine. Editing and publishing From 1839 to 1874 Edwards was secretary of the Calvinistic Methodist Association. In January 1845 there appeared the first number of the ''Traethodydd'', of whi ...
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Roger Edwards (politician)
Roger Edwards (born 1946) is a former Royal Marine who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency since the 2009 general election, winning re-election in 2013 and 2017. He was previously a Member of the Legislative Council from 2001–2005 and is the father of former MLA Emma Edwards. Edwards joined the Royal Marines in 1963, but transferred to the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm in September 1965, before going on to the Britannia Royal Naval College during which time he trained to be a pilot at RAF Linton-on-Ouse. From 1973 to 1975, Edwards served on HMS ''Endurance'' while it patrolled Falklands territorial waters. He was attached to the Special Air Service in 1982 during the Falklands war. In 1982 Edwards retired from the armed forces and bought a farm on West Falkland with his wife, Norma (a Falkland Islander Falkland may refer to: * Falkland, British Columbia, a community in Canada * Falkland, Nova Scotia, a community in Canada * Falkland ...
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