11 Facts About George Edmundson

George Edmundson was a clergyman of the Church of England and academic historian of the University of Oxford.

George Edmundson took up benefices in Northolt and Chelsea and in retirement lived in the south of France.

George Edmundson's father was lord of the manor of Agglethorpe in Coverdale.

George Edmundson was educated at St Peter's School, York, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a demy.

George Edmundson took a first class in Mathematical Moderations in 1869 and another first in Maths in 1870, graduated BA in 1871, won the Senior Hall Greek Testament Prize in 1873, and proceeded MA in 1874.

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In 1871 Edmundson was elected to an Open Fellowship at Brasenose and was Mathematical Lecturer there from 1871 to 1880 and a college tutor from 1875 to 1880.

George Edmundson was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1872 and a priest in 1874.

In 1880, George Edmundson accepted the benefice of Northolt, Middlesex, where he remained until 1906, when he became Vicar of St Saviour's, Upper Chelsea, retiring in 1920.

From 1896 to 1899, George Edmundson worked for the British Government in the matter of a Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela, and from 1901 to 1904 he worked for the government again on a Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Brazil.

George Edmundson married Florence Brooke Turner, the daughter of Joseph Brooke Turner, of Edgerton, Yorkshire, and they had one son and one daughter.

George Edmundson retired to a house named the Villa Nicette, at Saint-Raphael in the south of France and died on 3 July 1930.