Tickner Edwardes

Born in 1865, Tickner Edwardes was an English writer whose work ranged widely across country life, fiction, travel, and practical beekeeping. He is especially remembered for Lift-Luck on Southern Roads (1910), often described as one of the earliest published accounts of hitchhiking, and for writing with a strong feeling for the landscapes of southern England.

His life reached far beyond literature. During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, including time in Gallipoli and Egypt, and later became a priest in the Church of England. He served as Rector of Folkington and then as Vicar of Burpham in West Sussex, where he continued to write.

Edwardes was also a devoted beekeeper and an active member of the Sussex Beekeepers' Association. Alongside his books, he designed hive types and wrote practical works on beekeeping, showing the same careful, thoughtful approach that shaped his literary work. He died in 1944.