Educated at
Marlborough College and
Christ's College, Cambridge, Edwards became senior lecturer in
medicine at
St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1975, Professor of Medicine at the
University of Edinburgh in 1980 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1991. He was appointed the first Principal of the
Imperial College School of Medicine in 1995 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of
Newcastle University in 2001. Since 2012 he has also been a trustee at the Planet Earth Institute. He was appointed a
knight bachelor in the
2008 Birthday Honours. ==References==