Tickner Edwardes

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Edward Tickner Edwardes (1865–1944) was an English writer, beekeeper, medical officer and priest. He wrote one of the earliest accounts of
hitchhiking in 1910 – ''Lift-luck on Southern Roads''. He served in the
Royal Army Medical Corps during the
First World War in
Gallipoli and then running a laboratory in Egypt. After the war, he was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and became the vicar of
Burpham.
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