Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters and 1675 he came into contact with Stephen Hughes and Thomas Gouge and the Englishmen who formed the ' Welsh Trust ' with the object of establishing charity schools and publishing Welsh books to be distributed free to poor persons. He was in London, therefore, until 1684, superintending the work of printing those books. He also published some works of his own, including the 3rd edition of Y Ffydd
EDWARDS, CHARLES ALFRED (1882 - 1960), metallurgist and principal of University College of Swansea Born 23 March 1882, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Edwards, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The family moved to Lancashire in 1884 and C.A. Edwards was apprenticed in 1898 in the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways foundry. Such was his interest in the properties of metals and alloys that he was appointed assistant to Dr. H.C.H. Carpenter at the National Physical Laboratory in 1905. In 1907 he was co
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1741 - 1820), cleric and antiquary son of Samuel Edwards of Mold. He matriculated from All Souls, Oxford, in October 1758, 'aged 17,' and graduated in 1762 - Foster gives no indication of the M.A. which is given him in other works of reference. Even before graduating he had been licensed (21 December 1760) curate at Wrexham, and in 1777 he became also vicar of Cilcain, Flintshire. From 1782 till his death he was vicar of Llanarmon
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar rector of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, and according to a letter of Samuel Johnson's he was dead by 1784. Johnson and he were friends and correspondents, and Johnson stayed with him at Jesus in 1782. 'My convivial friend' is Johnson's description of Edwards - and the hint is amplified in Richard Morris's account of Edwards's reception into the Cymmrodorion Society in 1763. He was not without
EDWARDS, ELLIS (1844 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister and principal of Bala Theological College : ethics, apologetics, comparative religion, and afterwards divinity. Before the college was converted into a purely theological institution (1891) he devoted himself largely to Latin, Greek, and English literature. He delivered the Davies lecture ('The Being of God') in 1903. He fell far short of Lewis Edwards in theology and of Thomas Charles Edwards in exegesis, but in all subjects which lay on the
EDWARDS, FANNY WINIFRED (1876 - 1959), schoolteacher, children's writer, and dramatist Born 21 February 1876 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire, a sister of the poet William Thomas Edwards ('Gwilym Deudraeth '; and the youngest of the 12 children of William Edwards, master mariner, and his wife Jane (née Roberts). She was educated at Penrhyndeudraeth elementary school, becoming a pupil-teacher, afterwards a teacher until her retirement in December 1944 thereby completing over
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade union leader and politician mines and slate quarries of north Wales where he set up branches of the T.G.W.U. and the Labour Party. He was elected a member of Penmaen-mawr Rural District Council which he served as chairman. In the general election of 1929 he acted as agent to Thomas ap Rhys who opposed D. Lloyd George as Labour candidate for the Caernarfon Boroughs. While Edwards was unemployed in 1932 he was appointed a full
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician politically active in Flintshire from the 1930s onwards, being elected a councillor and later an alderman on the county council. He was one of three local political leaders who dominated the politics of the county for many years - the other two being the Conservative Sir Geoffrey Summers and the Liberal Thomas Waterhouse. He was a staunch supporter of Flintshire's Director of Education, Haydn Williams and
EDWARDS, JOHN (1692? - 1774), parish clerk and poet son of John Edwards and his wife Elinora (?). He was christened in 1692 in the parish church of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, and there in 1730 he married Catherine, daughter of Evan Evans, Cwm-yr-annel, Carno. He was parish clerk of Manafon for fifty years. He wrote englynion and carols, some of his work being published in Evan Davies (Philomath, fl. 1720-50) of Manafon's almanac, 1738, and some in
EDWARDS, JOHN (fl. second half of 17th century), preacher and 'strict' Baptist of Abergavenny, and by trade a shoemaker preach at Llan-gors, Brecknock (Cathedine according to Calamy), but was superseded by the Anglican incumbent Thomas Morgan, 9 December 1660. He withstood the hardship of the period of religious persecution which followed, and on 10 August 1672, under the Declaration of Indulgence, his home at Abergavenny was licensed as a meeting house. The date of his death is not known, but there is a reference to
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian year's delay caused by a recurrence of serious illness. A research scholarship at Manchester University (1913-15) enabled him to study with Thomas Frederick Tout (1855-1929), the pre-eminent medieval historian in Britain whose own writings had included medieval Wales and Flintshire. Both Tout and Edwards were impressed by John Edward Lloyd's magisterial History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the

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