Hywel Teifi Edwards (15 October 1934 – 4 January 2010) was a Welsh academic and historian,[1] a prominent Welsh nationalist, a broadcaster and an author in the Welsh language.[2] He was the father of former BBC journalist Huw Edwards.[3]
Edwards taught Welsh at Garw Grammar School, Pontycymer, where he met his wife Aerona. Their two children are Huw Edwards and Meinir Edwards (now Meinir Krishnasamy). He subsequently became an extramural lecturer in Welsh literature at University College of Swansea, and later Professor and Head of the Welsh Department.
He retired from full-time teaching in 1995 but continued to lecture and write books. Edwards was the leading authority on the history of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[5]