According to the booklet ' Rhondda - Servants to Steam', [1363] Edgar Cecil Edwards was born in March 1872 and died at Lisvane in July 1958.

He joined the staff of the Taff Vale Railway Company at the office of the Dock Superintendent at Penarth (then his father) about 1892 and in 1913 was promoted to the post of Assistant superintendent. He was subsequently made Dock Superintendent, which post he was holding when the Taff Vale Railway Company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway Company in 1922. In 1928 he was appointed Docks Manager of the G. W. Railway Millbay Docks at Plymouth and was retired from his appointment in 1932.

His father was James Edwards.