EDMUNDS, Albert Joseph. Tottenham, Middlesex 21.11.1857 — Cheltenham, PA 1941. British Librarian in the U.S.A. Son of Thomas Edmunds (d. 1880) and Rebecca Hallat (d. 1926). Educated 1867-73 at Croyden Friends Boarding School. Graduated 1877 from University of London. In 1879-83 secretary to astronomer T. W. Blackhouse. Moved to the U.S.A. in 1885 and settled in Philadelphia area. Librarian of Haverford College 1887-89. In 1891-1936 worked as cataloguer for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Hon. M.A. University of Pennsylvania 1907. Unmarried.
Publications: Much on Buddhism, also wrote on Christianity; a collection of poems (1906).
– Buddhist and Christian Gospels now first compared from the originals: being gospel parallels from Pâli texts. 16 p. Philadelphia 1900 and further editions; Can the Pâli Pitakas aid us in fixing the text of the Gospels? 5 p. Philadelphia 1905.
– Translated: Hymns of the Faith (Dhammapada): being an ancient anthology preserved in the short collection of the sacred scriptures of the Buddhists. 13+109 p. Chicago 1902.
– Buddhist texts quoted as Scripture by the Gospel of John: a discovery in the lower criticism (John vii, 38; xii. 34.). 41 p. Philadelphia 1906.
Sources: hsp.org.