Prince of Wales soil and speaking no other language"). William Camden wrote in his 1607 work "Britannia" that originally the title "Prince of Wales" was not conferred automatically upon the eldest living son of the King of England because Edward II (who had been the first English Prince of Wales) neglected to invest his eldest son, the future Edward III, with that title. It was Edward III who revived the practice of naming the eldest son Prince of Wales, which was then maintained by his successors: Nevertheless, according to conventional wisdom, since 1301 the Prince of Wales has usually been the eldest living
Prince of Wales Collegiate In 1894 a new, much larger building was erected on the site, as well as a new College Home. Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) was visiting Newfoundland in 1919 and laid the corner stone for the proposed new Methodist College—later named Prince of Wales College. In January 1925, just six months before it would have become the United Church College (in keeping with Church Union in June of that year), the building, like its predecessor, fell victim to fire. The main structure of the building was salvaged. 1926 a new building was built from the old and