The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Edwards, Stephen Meredyth
Edwards, Stephen Meredyth, C.V.O., I.C.S., Commissioner of Police, Bombay; s. of late Rev Stephen Edwards, Oxford; educ; at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford; b. 1873; entered I.C.S. as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, 1895; was Assistant Secy to Government; Assistant Collector of Customs; Municipal Commissioner, Bombay; Deputy Secy to Government; Compiler and editor, Bombay City Gazetteer: became Commissioner of Police, Bombay; is an Ex-President of the Bombay Anthropological Society, and Fellow of the Bombay University. Publications: The Rise of Bombay, a Retrospect,; the Ruling Princes of India; Gazetteer of Bombay City and island; By-ways of Bombay. Recreation: riding. Address. The Ridge, Malabar Hill, Bombay. Clubs: Byculla, and the Royal Yacht, Bombay.