Bryan Edwards’s elder brother, Nathaniel Bayly Edwards, died in 1771, aged 19, and lies buried at Halfway Tree; his younger brother, Zachary Bayly Edwards, of Dove Hall, Jamaica, was member of the Assembly for St. Andrew in 1785–90. He married Catherine, daughter of Rowland Otto-Baijer, of Antigua and Ffarleigh Castle, Somerset, England. Their son was Sir Bryan Edwards, chief justice of Jamaica from 1855 to 1869, and their daughter Eliza married her cousin Samuel Otto-Baijer, a member of the Council of Antigua. A genealogical table of the Edwards family will be found in Mr. Oliver’s “History of the Island of Antigua.” What relation to the historian the Bryan Edwards, special stipendiary magistrate for the parish of Westmoreland, who died in 1835, aged 29, was, it is difficult to say. He could not have been a son of his brother Nathaniel Bayly Edwards (who died at Cheltenham in September 1800). He may have been a son of his cousin William mentioned below. We know that the historian was one of a family of six, and that he had two brothers; whether the remaining two were brothers or sisters is not recorded; but it would seem from his will that he left but one brother, who only survived him two months. That Bryan Edwards was, to some extent at all events, a patron of the arts, is evident from the following extract from the second codicil to his will: I give and devise to my wife, Martha Edwards ... the full length portrait of herself, drawn by Pine,[12] now in my drawing-room in London, if she thinks proper to accept it. I give and devise to my brother the portraits of my mother and brother, Nathaniel McHume; and my own portrait now in London and any six other pictures in my collection which he may make choice of. Footnote 12: Robert Edge Pine, the painter of the picture of Rodney in the Institute of Jamaica. One wonders whether the fact that Edwards had employed Pine to paint his wife’s portrait had any influence in the purchase by the people of Kingston of that artist’s celebrated portrait of Rodney on board the _Formidable_. In an obituary notice of him, a writer in the “Gentleman’s Magazine” said: “He exercised his literary talents in a memorable way in Jamaica; for, by the strokes of his pen, he drove Peter Pindar from the Island, and the bitter satirist never dared to attack his character while he remained in this country.” The first time Wolcot left Jamaica it was in order to take Holy Orders, so that he might be presented to a living in Jamaica by his kinsman the governor, Sir William Trelawny; the second time he left—never to return—it was to accompany Lady Trelawny, his patron’s widow, to whom he was deeply attached. Moreover, Edwards never in his writings, at all events, gave evidence of satire equal to Wolcot’s; and the latter, one would think, was too pachydermatous to be driven anywhere by anybody against his will.