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Reverend Maurice Henry Edwards, OBE. B.A
Born in 1886, the son of Canon C. H. Edwards of Bingley, Yorkshire, Reverend Edwards was educated at Ripon Grammar School. Queen's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1909, and Leeds Clergy School. He was ordained in 1911 and from a curacy at Bedale, he went to be a naval chaplain in 1914.
In 1918 he transferred to the chaplaincy of the Royal Air Force.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was assistant chaplain in chief, serving at Headquarters, Fighter Command, and an honorary chaplain to the King.
After his retirement from the service in April, 1944 he took a post as Education and Welfare Officer at Rother Vale Colliery.
For five years from 1948 he was rector of Acton-Burnell with Pitchford in Shropshire.
He married Edith May in 1918, she was daughter of D. H. Watney of Liss. There was a daughter of the marriage.
Rev. Edwards died aged 74 in April, 1961.