Edwin K. G. "Ed" Jaggard (born 1942) is an honorary professor at the School of Arts and Humanities in the Edith Cowan University, Western Australia,[1][2] who specialised in the study of local history, in the study of surf lifesaving in Australia[3] and in the politics of Cornwall, UK in the 19th century.[4]
He holds Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Western Australia, and was awarded a Ph.D. by the Washington University in St. Louis in 1980 for a dissertation titled "Patrons, Principles and Parties: Cornwall Politics 1760–1910".
This work is described by the RHS as: "This detailed case-study offers a penetrating analysis of the changing political culture in Cornwall up to and after the introduction of the 1832 electoral system. It spans a century in which the country’s parliamentary over-representation and notorious political corruption was replaced by a politicised electorate for whom issues and principles were usually paramount. Several modes of electoral behaviour are tested; in particular, the continuous political activism of Cornwall’s farmers stands out. Despite remnants of the unreformed electoral system lingering into the mid-Victorian era, Cornwall developed a powerful Liberal tradition, built upon distinctive patterns of non-conformity; the Conservatives, split by dissension, saw their pre-reform ascendancy disappear."
"Managers and Agents: Conservative Party Organisation in the 1850s" in Parliamentary History 27 (1), 7–18 (2008)
Between the Flags: One Hundred Summers of Australian Surf Lifesaving, UNSW Press, (2006), ISBN9780868408972, (edited).[8]
^Taylor, Miles (2002). "British politics in the age of revolution and reform, 1789–1867". The Historical Journal. 45 (3): 661–677. doi:10.1017/S0018246X02002613.
^Bernstein, George L. (2001). "Edwin Jaggard. Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1885". Albion. 33 (1): 131–132. doi:10.1017/S0095139000066758.
^McWilliam, Rohan (2001). "Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885". The English Historical Review. 116 (466): 493. doi:10.1093/ehr/116.466.493. GaleA74691953.