J. C. Edwards, based in Los Angeles, was one of the largest breeders of Budgerigars in the United States. In 1928, he bred and sold approximately 15,000 young birds, which included many Blues, Blue-breds, Cobalts, Mauves, and other colour varieties. His breeding aviaries were large and spacious. While breeding Budgerigars was a business for J.C. Edwards, his hobby was breeding Finches and Lovebirds.
Oliver Cromwell Edwards was born on September 12, 1850, in Clarence, Ontario.
He was a physician. He studied medicine at McGill University and graduated in 1873. He also studied homeopathy medicine in Scotland and England (1873-1874) and opened a private practice in Montreal. In 1882, Edwards was appointed as a medical doctor for the Department of Indian Affairs, serving in Qu'Appelle and Indian Head, Saskatchewan. In 1885, he became the first President of the Council of the Northwest Territories College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1890, he returned east so his children could attend school and he went back into private practice in Ottawa. In 1897, he headed west again to take a position as a medical doctor for the Department of Indian Affairs serving in Regina, Saskatchewan. Edwards was the medical officer on the 1900 and 1901 Treaty 8 Commission to northern Alberta, northern British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. His wife Henrietta was prominent in the women's rights movement. She was one of Alberta's "Famous Five" who fought to have Canadian women recognized as "persons". While on the Treaty 8 Commission, Edwards took many photos and wrote a journal "On the North Trail".
In 1876, he married Henrietta Louise Muir (1849–1931). He died on April 4, 1915, in Alberta, Canada.
Reginald Edwards was born in Oldham, England in 1913. He taught in Primary and Secondary Schools from 1933-1940, and received his B.S.c. degree from the University of London in 1940, honouring in Psychology.
After entering the Army, he was transferred to the Directorate of Selection of Personnel where he worked on the problems of personal selection and training at the Research Centres of various War Office Selection Boards. On leaving the Army in 1946 he held a Child Guidance Fellowship working with disturbed children in various London hospitals and particularly at the renowned Tavistock Clinic.
From 1946 to 1948 he was a specialist teacher of mathematics and physics in a High School prior to his appointment as Educational Psychologist and Inspector of Schools for a Local Education Authority. He received his Master of Education degree from University of Manchester in 1950 and joined the staff of the University of Sheffield as Lecturer in Educational Psychology in 1952.
He first taught in the Summer School at Macdonald College of McGill University in 1956. In 1958-59 he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor teaching educational psychology at the University of Michigan and in the summer of 1959 taught courses in comparative education at Eastern Michigan University.
He was appointed Professor in the Institute of Education of McGill University in September, 1960 and played a key role as Chairman of the Division of Graduate Studies and Research where he paved the way for the rapid growth in graduate studies and research which followed the Institute's transformation to Faculty status. Over the course of his career, he supervised nearly fifty theses - then a record for the Faculty of Education. He retired in August 1981 and was named Emeritus Professor in June 1983.
Lourenço Edye was born in Rio de Janeiro. He rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy from major to lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines to assistant director of Naval Intelligence. He authored a number of books on military and naval subjects, including Catechism on the Manual of Instruction in Army Signalling. His most important work was Historical Records of the Royal Marines, of which volume one — concerning the period 1664-1701 — was published in 1893. After retiring from the military, he came to Canada in 1899 and worked first as Assistant Commissioner for the Trust and Loan Company of Canada in Toronto and the next year as Commissioner at the head office in Montreal. He worked on a second volume of his Historical Records of the Royal Marines, but the manuscript was lost when the ship on which Edye was travelling from South America to Britain was attacked by a German U-boat. Edye himself survived and died later in Sidmouth, England. Two other naval scholars, Colonel Cyril Field, RMLI, and General Sir H. E. Blumberg, KCB RM were able to use Edye's notes to produce the three-volume work Britain's Sea Soldiers.
