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Edwards was born 27 February 1600, and was educated at Merchant Taylors" School.
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John Edwards
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Fl 1638) was an English academic, headmaster and physician. He was noted as a Royalist supporter in the University of Oxford. In 1617 he was elected to a probationary fellowship at Street John"s College, Oxford.
The former President of the college, William Laud, in 1632 recommended Edwards for the head-mastership of Merchant Taylors" School.
He resigned this post at the close of 1634, and returned to Oxford. There Edwards served the office of proctor in the following year.
In 1638 he was appointed Sedleian reader of natural philosophy, and proceeded to the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine He appears to have resided in college during the troubled times that followed. In 1647 Edwards was summoned, as a delinquent, to appear before the committee of Lords and Commons for regulating the affairs of the university.
His fellowship was taken from him, and he was superseded in the office of Sedleian reader by Joshua Crosse of Magdalen College.
He was, however, paid for the readership until Michaelmas 1649. He is assumed to have worked subsequently in Oxford as a physician, and to have died in the later 1650s.
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In 1642, when the First English Civil War broke out, he was, with others, appointed by Convocation to provide accommodation for the troopers sent to Oxford, and procure arms to defend the university.
