Autographs of Jimmy Edwards
James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor of stage, radio, television and film, known for his roles as Pa Glum in Take It from Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O!.
Edwards was born in Barnes, Surrey, the son of Reginald Walter Kenrick Edwards, lecturer in mathematics at King's College London, and Phyllis Katherine Cowan, from New Zealand. He was the eighth of nine children and fifth of five sons. His father died in 1935, leaving the family in dire financial straits. Jimmy's brother Alan had to leave school and enter the mounted police, while his brother Hugh joined the Merchant Navy as an apprentice aged fourteen. Hugh subsequently gained a reputation as a smuggler of cigarettes, whisky and occasionally people, and published a memoir, Midnight Trader, in 1959.
Edwards was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, where he became head boy, and attended the Silver Jubilee of George V in that capacity. His poem, "The Train", which first appeared in The Mortarboard – a school magazine founded by Edwards in competition with the existing one – was included in Walter de la Mare's compilation of children's poems, This Year, Next Year (1937). Having won a scholarship, Edwards went on to King's College School in Wimbledon. He subsequently became a choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history and sang in the college choir.
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Traded items with a signature of Jimmy Edwards
The most expensive item with a signature of Jimmy Edwards (Tony Hancock, Vera Lynn & Jimmy Edwards - Signed Autograph Programme (1952)) was sold in February 2024 for £260.00 while the cheapest item (Jimmy Edwards Autograph Postcard. Unposted) found a new owner for £0.99 in March 2024. The month with the most items sold (4) was November 2013 with an average selling price of £5.19 for an autographed item of Jimmy Edwards. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2021 with £29.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was January 2015. In average, an autographed item from Jimmy Edwards is worth £5.29.
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