Sir John Bryn Edwards, 1st Baronet (12 January 1889 – 22 August 1922) was a

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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. 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

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and Tinplate Works, he had the resources to fund a number of philanthropic and charitable endeavours for which he was recognised in the

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by being created, at the unusually young age of 32, a baronet of Treforis in the

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. 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, became part of the campus of Swansea University and was the site, until 2006, of the

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*'' Who Was Who'', vol II, 1916−1928 (third edition, 1962). London: Adam & Charles Black. *"Wills and Bequests", '' The Times'', 1 November 1922 {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, John Bryn 20th-century Welsh businesspeople Welsh philanthropists People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge John Bryn People from Glamorgan 1889 births 1922 deaths 20th-century British philanthropists