Tickner Edwardes
(1865-1944), Author and priestSitter in 1 portrait
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Michael Horan
19 November 2018, 13:53
Edward Tickner Edwardes was vicar of Burpham in West Sussex from 1927 until 1935. He wrote a number of books, most notably about his great passion, bees. He also wrote novels, one of which, 'Tansy', was made into a silent film in 1921.
Rebecca Strivens
27 September 2020, 22:42
Tickner Edwardes was my great grandfather. My father had very fond memories of staying with him and his wife Kathleen at they vicarage in Burpham, Sussex. He was a journalist who fell in love with the Sussex countryside while researching for his writing. He fought in Egypt in WWI, though I have a small bible covered in mud inscribed with his name (which was actually Edward Tickner Edwardes') the date, May 1st 1918, and 'Ypres'. I assume it was trench mud.
He became an ordained priest in the Church of England and wrote nature and faith based articles for the local newspapers as well as the Novel 'Tansy' which was turned into a silent movie. Most of his books relate to nature, beekeeping or country life.
He had four children, three daughters, of which the middle one, Phyllis, was my grandmother. His son, Edward, was killed in a plane crash in Aiden (now Yemen) in the 1920s. His eldest daughter, Marjorie, and her husband Cecil Hay were in Singapore during the second World War siege. Their exploits and memories were used by the author of 'A sinister twilight', Noel Barber, to inform his writing about the fall of Singapore.
Tickner Edwardes died before the end of WWII. I do not know whether he saw Marjorie again. She made it home on the last boat to achieve safe passage to England from Singapore.
Though I never knew him, he was always spoken of with great respect by his family.
His sermon notes reveal great depth of insight, and his writings invoke a sense of wonder at nature's intricacies.
He was a keen photographer and microscopist.