Edwards

Edwards was one of the men who met regularly with Alexander Roby in late 1925. This information came from both Delia Morrison and Vincent Tuck. The group also included Lawrence Bacon, Malcolm Quarrie and possibly a man called Coombes.

Aged about 40, neatly-dressed and sporting a beard and moustache, Edwards lived alone in short-term lodgings at 50 Berriman Road in Islington. Neither Delia, nor Tuck found out his first name. He spent his time in the library and meeting the other men, and despite driving a car did not appear to be employed.

Referred to by Alexander Roby during his monologue to Dr Bartlett, Roby said the following:

- Edwards told Roby to work only with him.

- Roby and Edwards were in some way opposed to, or in disagreement with Malcolm Quarrie.

- Roby also says 'What Edwards and I are doing now harms no one.'

After the disappearance of Alexander Roby and Nurse Evans from St Agnes Asylum it was discovered that his full name is Montague Edwards and that he had been at the Asylum all along, posing as Nurse Mark Evans.

The obituary of Lawrence Bacon printed in Occult magazine refers to Edwards as the "Laird of Mullardoch" which ties him to Loch Mullardoch in Scotland.

Edwards had a reader's ticket for the British Library, for which his references were Malcolm Quarrie and Dr Schwabe, his former teacher. Schwabe remembered Edwards and was able to give a little more information about him.

As a young man Edwards attended the Slade School of Fine Arts, but showed no real desire to graduate or exhibit, despite his talent. He dropped out in 1907 and seems to have disappeared from society.

While at Slade he saw slides of the 1907 Oxford University dig at Springer Mound and seemed to show great interest in them.