Up for auction a RARE! "1st Baronet of Garth" John Edwards Signed Free Frank Dated 1839.  

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John Edwards, 1st Baronet (15 January 1770

– 15 April 1850), was a Whig politician

who served as Member of

Parliament for Montgomery from

8 April 1833 to 23 June 1841. The Edwards Baronetcy, of Garth in the County of Montgomery, was

created for him in the Baronetage of the United

Kingdom on 23 July 1838. Since he had no male heirs, the

estate passed to his daughter Mary Cornelia Edwards (c.1829-1906) and the title

became extinct on his death. On 3 August 1846 Mary Cornelia Edwards

married George Vane-Tempest, Viscount Seaham, later to become Earl

Vane and the 5th Marquess of Londonderry. After her father's death, they

used Plas Machynlleth as

their family seat. Sir John Edwards' father was John Edwards (d.1789), a

solicitor of Plas Machynlleth (also

known as 'Greenfields'), Montgomeryshire. The senior Edwards acquired the Garth

estate by his marriage to his third wife, Cornelia Owen, only child and heiress

of Richard Owen and his wife. The estate included the profitable Van lead mines.

Sir John Edwards added to the mansion, and expanded the estate by purchase of

parts of the Peniarth Estate along the Dyfi Valley.