Tickner Edwardes

Tickner Edwardes

Reverend 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.