Personal Life
Edge was born in Concord township, near Sydney, on 29 March 1868. He died 12 February 1940 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England.
At age three, he was taken to London where in his teens he grew famous as a bicycle racer. He worked as manager of the Dunlop offices in London and in 1896 bought his first car, a De Dion-Bouton.
From 1910 until at least 1922 he resided at Gallops Homestead, Ditchling, Sussex, and from 1912–19, courtesy of his contract with Napiers, he devoted himself to farming.
He died in 1940.
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