"Britain’s first black editor achieved so much in such a short life"
HEN I RECENTLY CAME ACROSS THE MAN considered Britain’s first black editor, I was surprised that I had never before heard his name. Samuel Jules Celestine Edwards was born in Dominica, the youngest of 10 children, near the end of the 1850s. In 1870 he travelled to North America and then, some seven years later, to Edinburgh,