Biography

Charles Howard Edgington (1894 - 1911) was the son of Frederick Arthur Edginton and Emma Beatrice, eldest daughter of Charles E. Walsh of Hobart, the family having a daughter and another son, who lived at 'Everest' at Exeter.

The first settler of this family to arrive in Van Diemen's Land was Thomas Edginton, grandfather of Charles, who came from England as a young man of 22 years in 1852. By 1854 he had set up his own business house in Launceston as a grain and general produce merchant.

Returning to Charles, whose birth was recorded in Launceston, it has been established that he attended the Launceston Church Grammar School for several years. At the age of 17 years, however, he died. The cause of his death was not given. The masters and pupils of the Grammar School erected a plaque of opus sectile mosaic in the chapel of St. John's Church, at which the school had worshipped for many years. The inscription reads:
HIC AMOR
HIC PATRIA
G. H. W. EDGINTON
OB. 12TH NOV. 1911

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