Brian Morgan Edwards

Who was Brian Morgan Edwards?

Brian Morgan Edwards was an expert computer salesman, a prominent supporter of Plaid Cymru and a Welsh businessman who sponsored the first Welsh-language recording studio for popular music.

He was born in Swansea and won a place at the London School of Economics, where he was a joint founder of the Tankard Club, a dining club for LSE graduates. His first job was as a computer salesman with IBM, and his friendly and honest character, combined with an extrovert nature, soon won him success in that field. In 1961 he was appointed lead salesman for the 3000 series, a new computer system which used a novel small-sized punched card and was designed for the smaller business. By spending his weekends driving around the industrial estates of west London, and on Monday mornings presenting a list of company names to his secretary, he rapidly built up a strong following of prospective customers.

He met his wife Rona, who like himself was a native of Wales, whilst they were both living in London, and soon after their marriage the pair moved back to their native land, eventually settling in Pwllheli on the Lleyn Peninsula. Morgan Edwards had been a vociferous supporter of the Conservative Party, at the time of the Harold MacMillan government and the 1964 General Election, which brought Harold Wilson into government for the first time. But the combination of marriage to Rona and residence in Wales soon turned him into a fervent Welsh Nationalist, and he supported that cause for many years. He stood as a candidate in a later General Election, but he did not win a seat.