Background
EDWARDS, Agustín was born on June 17, 1878 in Santiago.
Diplomat Financier and public man
EDWARDS, Agustín was born on June 17, 1878 in Santiago.
National deputy, 1900-1910. Administrator of the San Juan de Dios Hospital, Valparaiso, 1900-1903. Vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies and president of its Finance Committee, 1901-1902.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1903, 1905, 1909, and 1910.
Minister Plenipotentiary to Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, 1905-1906. Special Chilean envoy to the marriage of Alfonso XIII of Spain, 1906.
Chilean delegate to the International Conference of Geneva, 1906. Minister of the Interior, 1910.
Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain, 1910-1925, and since 1935.
Special Chilean envoy to the coronation of George V of England, 1911. Chilean delegate to the International Congress of History of London, 1912. Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden, 1919-1924.
Vice-president of the League of Nations and president of its Finance Committee, 1921.
President of the Assembly of the League of Nations, 1922 • president of the Fifth Pan-American Conference, 1923. Of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission, 1925-1926.
Chilean delegate to the International Congress of History of Oslo, 1928. President of the Second International Conference on Education, 1934.
President of numerous private companies, including: Banco de A. Edwards y Compañía
(since 1925), Louisiana Chilena Consolidada (life insurance), Urban Street Railways of Valparaiso. Proprietor of El Mercurio of Santiago. Founder of the following newspapers and periodicals: El Mercurio (Santiago), Las Últimas Noticias (Antofagasta), El Mercurio (Antofagasta), El Mercurio (Valdivia), Louisiana Estrella (Valparaiso), Zig-Zag, Correvuela, Selecta, Peneca, Familia, et cetera
Academia Chilena correspondiente de la Española. Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía (president). Academia de la Historia (president).
Royal Geographical Society of London.
Married Olga Budge. Children: Agustín Roberto.