In Ukraine, Boris Edwards is honored with a memorial plaque in Odessa and a street renamed in his memory in the Kyiv region.

He was born on May 27, 1860, in Odessa to British citizen Bezil Edwards and Ukrainian Sofia Yurievna, who hailed from a Cossack family. He received his early artistic education at the Odessa Drawing School (1876–1881) under the guidance of Milanese Academy of Fine Arts professor Luigi Iorini.

In 1885, before moving to Paris, Boris organized the first personal sculpture exhibition in Odessa. In France, he studied at the Académie Julian and worked with renowned artists, creating portraits.

Critics noted: “Edwards is one of the few artists of our time who depicts the human body with love.”

In 1899, he held a major exhibition in the winter garden of the Vorontsov Palace. His works were also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1900) and at the Salons of V. Izdebski in Odessa, Kyiv, and Riga.

He established the first bronze foundry in Ukraine to realize his grand sculptural ideas. He co-founded the Odessa Literary and Artistic Society and the Museum of Fine Arts.

Edwards' ancestry is rich: British, Ukrainian, Irish, Spanish, and Turkish roots. His great-grandfather was the commandant of the Gibraltar fortress. Edwards could have inherited land in Manhattan but chose the path of art instead.

In 1918, he became the head of the Odessa Art School, which he helped reorganize into a higher educational institution. That same year, his final exhibition took place, summarizing 35 years of creative work.

In 1919, he emigrated to Malta, where he created a Memorial in honor of fallen Maltese heroes.
He passed away on February 12, 1924, and is buried in Malta.