Tributes paid to cycling twin (From Gazette Series)

Tributes paid to cycling twin

TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Wotton-under-Edge resident who died in a road accident last week.

Edwin Unsworth, known as Ed, was killed on on the A46 at Upton St Leonards, near Gloucester, on Wednesday, August 3.

Mr Unsworth, 29 from Brockworth, was brought up in Wotton-Under-Edge and attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School. At 16 he went on to study at GlosCAT before achieving an honours degree in Business Studies at Swansea's Institute of Higher Education, part of the University of Wales.

Along with his twin brother George, Ed was a member of the Gloucester City Cycling Club and competed in the Cotswold League.

After obtaining his degree, Ed first worked for Xerox in Mitcheldean before moving on to Wendland Roof Solutions in Quedgeley where he worked as a buyer.

"We were good friends as well as brothers, we had been on numerous cycling tours together and had made a lot of good friends through cycling," said George.

"Ed had a very dry sense of humour but he was also conscientious about work and considerate to others around him."

"Ed had a gentle and loving nature but took life and all that he did seriously," said his mother Gill.

His sister Michelle said: "Ed put his all into life and was very giving. He was always there to lend a hand and help out when anyone needed it." Ed is also survived by his older brother Rob, 31, and his father Jim.