Charles Alfred Edwards
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Professor Charles Alfred Edwards (1882-1960) of the National Physical Laboratory.
1882 March 23rd. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, the son of Samuel Edwards and his wife Elizabeth
1884 The family moved to the UK
1898 Apprenticed at the Horwich Works
1905 Appointed assistant to Henry Cort Harold Carpenter at the National Physical Laboratory
Joined Manchester University
1908 Married Florence Edith Roberts and had a son, Harold Robert
1910 Joined Bolckow, Vaughan and Co as metallurgist
1914 Appointed Professor of Metallurgy at Manchester
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Sources of Information
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society