Richard Edwards
Australian politician
Why Is Richard Edwards Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Edwards was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives. Early life Richard Edwards was born in 1842 in Montgomeryshire, Wales. He migrated to Australia in 1862, becoming first a goldminer in Victoria and then a shopkeeper in Brisbane. He invested in both sugar and newspapers. Elizabeth Munro Edwards was born in Scotland on 11 May 1840 and came to Australia with her parents, Thomas Gibson and Christina Thompson in 1864. Three years later she married Richard. Interested in politics also, she hosted the first women's suffrage league in Brisbane in 1889, and was appointed as the Government representative to a Royal Commission on working conditions in Shops and Factories. She was active in the Early Closing Movement.
