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Edward Wilton Eddis ( * 10 May 1825, Islington; † 18 October 1905, Toronto) was a poet and prophet in the Catholic Apostolic Church at Westminster, London and co-author of the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches''.〔(Hymns for the use of the Churches ), cyberhymnal.org, retrieved 25 October 2014〕 ==Life== Edward Wilton Eddis was born on 10 May 1825 in Islington as the last of the five children of Eden Eddis ( *1784,† 1838) and Clementia Parker ( *1789,† 1875).〔(Family ), ancestry.com, retrieved 26 October 2014〕〔(Birthyear Clementia Parker ), wikitree.com, retrieved 31 October 2014〕 His eldest brother was the portrait artist Eden Upton Eddis.〔(Eddis ), cyberhymnal.com, retrieved 25 October 2014〕 The other three were: Clementia Esther Eddis ( *31 December 1815, † 16 December 1887), Arthur Shelly Eddis ( *11 January 1817, † 23 May 1893) and Henry William Eddis ( *30 November 1820, † 1911, Ontario). Edward Wilton Eddis married Ellen Sheppard ( *12 May 1829, † 5 February 1878, Berrima, New South Wales, Australia) in the late 1840s or the beginning of the 1850s and they had four children:〔(Ellen Eddis ), geni.com, retrieved 25 October 2014〕〔(Ellen M. Eddis ), myheritage.nl, retrieved 27 October 2014〕〔(children Ellen, Marion Elizabeth and Ethel Shearman ), users.on.net, retrieved 27 October 2014〕〔(Ethel Shearman Eddis ), ancientfaces.com, retrieved 27 October 2014〕 Ellen M. Eddis ( *1854, † 1892 in Melbourne, Victoria), Wilton Clement Eddis ( *1855, † 1919),〔(Wilton Eddis ), retrieved 29 October 2014〕 Marion Elizabeth Eddis ( *1862, † 1893 in Carlton, Victoria) and Ethel Shearman Eddis ( *1864 in England, † 1884 in Prn Alfho, Australia). Given the places of birth of his children and the places of death of his wife, he married Ellen Sheppard before 1854 and the family must have moved to Australia in the late 1860s or the 1870s. Furthermore, Edward Wilton Eddis was unfortunate to survive three of his children. E.W. Eddis was a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church and he was appointed as a prophet by its Westminster congregation.〔(Westminster congregation ), hymnology.co.uk, retrieved 27 October 2014〕 He probably became a member of the church before 1850 as he wrote in 1851 his collection of poetry entitled ''The Time of the End and Other Poems'', a collection that was in line with catholic apostolic church thought. Around 1860, Edward Wilton Eddis and John George Francis (?-1889)〔John George Francis was angel-evangelist and later angel in the Catholic Apostolic Church, he published some 20 works, source: Columba Graham Flegg, ''Gathered Under Apostles: A Study of the Catholic Apostolic Church'', 1992, p. 16〕 had a theological dispute with John Ross Dix when the latter published ''The New Apostles; or, Irvingism, its history, doctrines, and practices'' in 1860, an attack on the Catholic Apostolic Church.〔Nick Groom, ‘Dix, John (b. 1811, d. in or after 1864)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 (accessed 25 Oct 2014 )〕〔(Subtitle The New Apostles ), amazon.co.uk, retrieved 3 November 2014〕 Base for this attack probably was John George Francis' book ''A discourse on the office of Apostle'', published in 1848 by George Barclay in London.〔(Discourse office of apostle ), openlibrary.org, retrieved 28 October 2014〕 Eddis' 1860 letter ''The True Revival of the Church of Christ, and her hope in the last days'' was likely a response to Dix' critical book as it refers to a book entitled ''The New Apostles''.〔(The New Apostles ), books.google.nl, retrieved 27 October 2014〕 In his activities for the Catholic and Apostolic Church Eddis edited together with John Bate Cardale the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'', the first Catholic Apostolic Hymnal: (see below). After moving to Australia, Edward Wilton Eddis was one of the 11 clergy operating for the Catholic Apostolic Church in Melbourne in the 1880s and 1890s.〔Mark Hutchinson, (Edward Irving’s Antipodean Shadow ), retrieved 27 October 2014〕 To this group of clergy also belonged Robert Appleton, George Clark, William Hinscliff, John Kirkhope, William Miller, William Patten, R G Suter, Edward Tucker, Percy Whitestone, and William Wilson. On 18 October 1905, E.W. Eddis died in Toronto. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Wilton Eddis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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