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'''Dilys Grace Edmunds''' (1879–1926), an early twentieth century teacher in [[India]] from a [[Welsh Calvinistic Methodists|Welsh Calvinistic Methodist]] background, whose fund-raising work supported school building programmes in the [[Karimganj District|Karimanj District]] of [[India]].

Dilys Edmunds was born in London in 1879. Her father was Mr Llewelyn Edmunds, the precentor at Bethel Chapel, Wilton Square, in [[Islington]], London (a chapel built by [[Welsh Calvinistic Methodists]] in 1853, rebuilt 1884). Such Welsh Methodists had their origins in the religious revival of the eighteenth century, and had been influenced by [[George Whitfield]] and his patron, [[Selina, Countess of Huntingdon]].

After attending a school in London, Dilys Edmunds studied at the [[Aberystwyth University|University College of Wales]] in [[Aberystwyth]] where she gained a bachelor of arts degree, followed by completion of a teachers' training course. Her teaching career began in London, but in 1914 as war broke out in Europe, she sailed to India, funded by of a Welsh missionary society, to teach at a secondary school in [[Silchar]]. Two years later she was offered a post in charge of the Girls' School at [[Karimganj]]. Whilst there she wrote numerous articles about the customs and culture of local people for the Welsh monthly periodical [[Presbyterian Church of Wales|Y Cenhadwr]]

Returning to Britain after the end of World War One, arriving towards the end of 1920 and staying for about a year, she raised funds in London and Wales for a building programme to provide residential hostels for Indian teachers, accommodation for school children in the [[Karimganj District|Karimanj District]], and to establish a 'School of Weaving' for the Girls' School at [[Karimganj]].

Coming back to London again in 1925, this time to care for her mother who was unwell, she herself was taken ill and died suddenly in a London hospital on 17 April 1926.

Dilys Edmunds was buried at [[Abney Park Cemetery]] in Stoke Newington, London.

==References==
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==Sources==
* Rees, D. (2002) ''Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India 1800-1970''
* Morris, John Hughes (1996) ''The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists' Foreign Mission''

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