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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Staff - Captain Reuben Edwards

Staff - Captain Reuben Edwards, the officer in charge of the Central Division, was born in 1862, in Bedfordshire, and educated at Langford, Bedfordshire. For a time he was in private service as a butler, and afterwards entered the City Liberal Club in London as porter. It was while in their service that Mr. Edwards joined the Salvation Army, and in 1882 he entered the Congress Hall, the training-home at Clapton, as a cadet. After six months at Padiham, Lancashire, as lieutenant, he was ordered to Australia. He served at Ballarat, Victoria, and South Melbourne, where he was promoted to the rank of captain. After a term in Sydney, he accompanied Major Wright to Brisbane to open up work in Queensland. Captain Edwards was subsequently for three-and-a-half years in South Australia, and in 1888 returned to England on a trip. At the end of that year he was promoted to staff-captain, and placed in charge of the Western District of New South Wales. He has since acted successively as A.D.C. to the divisional officer for the Southern Division of New South Wales, as staff-captain of the Western Division of Victoria, the Northern Division of New Zealand with Auckland as a centre, and the North-western Division of New Zealand, with Wanganui as a centre. In February, 1895, when the Wanganui and Wellington districts were merged into the Central Division, Staff-Captain Edwards took charge. In 1888 he married Catherine, daughter of Mr. M. O. Seward, of Langford, and has had four children, of whom two survive.

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