When Edwin Charles Coward was born on 7 November 1875, in Gillingham, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Coward, was 37 and his mother, Mary Ann Bealing, was 38. He married Susan Mead on 23 December 1902, in Kington Magna, Dorset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ditcheat, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in April 1950, in Gillingham, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74, and was buried in Gillingham, Dorset, England, United Kingdom.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English: occupational name for a cowherd, Middle English couh(i)erde, couhirde, couhurde (Old English cūhyrde). The surname has nothing to do with the modern English word coward, which is from Old French cuard, a pejorative term from coue ‘tail’ (from Latin cauda) with reference to an animal with its tail between its legs.
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