Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDGEWORTH, ROGER (d. 1560), Roman Catholic divine Born in Holt castle, Denbighshire. He went to Oxford about 1503, graduated B.A. in 1507, and in 1508 was elected a Fellow of Oriel College. He became a noted preacher in the university and elsewhere, and obtained several preferments including the chancellorship of Wells cathedral in 1554. During the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI he was moderate, but after the accession of queen Mary he
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd prominently amongst the counsellors of those princes. For some years before his death in 1268, GORONWY AB EDNYFED was seneschal to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (A History of Wales, ii, 743; Litt. Wall., 4, 28, 45). His brother, TUDUR AB EDNYFED, was captured during Henry III's inconclusive campaign against Dafydd ap Llywelyn in September 1245, and was released in May 1247 on swearing fealty to the king. Despite
EDWARDS family Chirkland, Tournai (1513), was chosen by the last abbot of Valle Crucis as steward of the abbey's estates, and became a member of the bodyguard of Henry VIII, who leased lands to him in the lordship of Chirk (1526) when it fell to the Crown, made him constable of its castle (1529) and granted him the motto 'A fynno Duw derfydd.' His son, JOHN EDWARDS I, became deputy-constable of the castle (1543) and sheriff of
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar knowledge of things Welsh, but was primarily a Grecian. He projected an edition of Xenophon's Memorabilia, published, 1773, an essay on Socratic ethics as mirrored in that book, and by the time of his death had printed the Greek text with a Latin version; his work was seen through the press in 1785 by his friend and fellow-Cymmrodor Henry Owen (1716 - 1795). Enw. C. says he died 2 September 1783, 'in
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. , George Henry Vane, later 5th marquess of Londonderry.
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters Bala College and then (1880-3) to Aberystwyth, where he did very well in English and history in the London University examinations (graduating in 1883), but not so well in philosophy despite his great attachment to Henry Jones (1852 - 1922), an attachment which led him to spend a session (1883-4) at Glasgow at the feet of Edward Caird. At Balliol College, Oxford (October 1884), he reverted to history
EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire with Cavaliers and Anglicans must not make us forget that Edwards was a loyal life-long Puritan, as witness his welcome in 1672 to his Puritan kinsman Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682), the son of Methlan, near Aberdaron, the pains he took to help Maurice's widow over the leasing of the Gwynfryn lands in 1688, and his assistance in securing the services of a South Wales Independent (Daniel Phillips, 1680
EDWARDS, RICHARD FOULKES (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd; 1836 - 1870), poet of 1864 for his awdl 'Ioan yn Ynys Patmos,' and at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865 he won a prize for a critical essay on the genius of Eben Fardd ('Traethawd Beirniadol ar Eben Fardd a'i Athrylith'). In 1869 at the Liverpool eisteddfod he was awarded the chair for his elegy on Henry Rees. He worked for a time as a clerk in a solicitor's office in Ruthin, and later he worked for Thomas Gee
EDWARDS, ROGER (1811 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister was formally appointed pastor. He married, 1841, Ellen Williams of Dolgelley. They had six children. The eldest son, Ellis Edwards, became principal of Bala College; a daughter, Annie, married Sir Henry Lewis of Bangor. His was a varied and versatile career. He was above all a preacher, but, although he officiated regularly at Associations and festivals, he does not rank amongst the giants of the
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Gwynedd; 1844 - 1924), cleric and eisteddfodwr Born 8 April 1844 at Glasinfryn, Pentir, Bangor, son of Henry Edwards, schoolmaster, and Jane his wife, and christened at Llandegai. He was educated at S. Bees, and was ordained deacon June 1867 by bishop Campbell of Bangor, and priest in 1868. After serving curacies at Llandegfan 1867-72, and Dwygyfylchi, 1872-6, he was preferred to the livings of Llanfihangel-y-pennant 1876, Llanllyfni 1891
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, left a daughter, CAROLINE, who in 1810 married WINDHAM HENRY WINDHAM QUIN, later 2nd earl of Dunraven. The Edwin family in Llanfihangel was thus merged into the family of the earls of Dunraven.

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