Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters prepared to submit to the authority of Parliament. In October 1648 he was awarded a scholarship at Jesus College, whence he graduated B.A. in 1649. The following year he is found serving as an itinerant preacher under the Act for the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, and it may be surmised that he continued in that work until 1652-3 when he was given the sinecure living of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He
EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), soldier and enlightened landowner was a good landlord who believed that all of his workers should have a portion of land to cultivate. He was a strong supporter of Jesse Collings ' plan - 'three acres and a cow' - and he wrote extensively on this particular subject. He died on 3 March 1894 and was buried in the graveyard of Great Ness church.
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor . Throughout his life his health had been most delicate; as a boy his ' nervous excitability ' had attracted notice; he failed to stay his course at Oxford; he broke down at Aberdare; he was twice widowed after very brief marriages; he nearly died of typhoid fever in 1882. At last, incessant preaching and speaking and writing broke him; in 1884 he had a prolonged spell of insomnia, and on 24 May 1884 he died
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician determined not to allow the growing momentum on the issue to be ignored and decided to resign as council chairman in protest. The announcement of his resignation on 24 October 1958 was, according to one source, accepted with 'equanimity' by the government, but the impact on Welsh public life was not negligible. Shortly afterwards, in its manifesto for the 1959 general election, the Labour Party committed
EDWARDS, JOHN (Meiriadog; 1813 - 1906), poet and editor a time from 1852, and from 1858 he was responsible for Y Llusern. He died 24 July 1906, aged 93 years. His manuscripts were presented to the National Library of Wales in 1926.
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician ' Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear,' the anthem composed by J. Ambrose Lloyd at the Bethesda eisteddfod of 1852. He was also a good preacher and an acceptable parish priest. He died 24 November 1885 at Llanddoget rectory, the home of his nephew, and was buried in Tal-y-llyn. His brother RICHARD OWEN EDWARDS, born 31 July 1808, was also a pupil of Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, and went to Ystrad Meurig school. He taught music in
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian Society of Cymmrodorion 'for notable service to Wales'. To mark his seventieth birthday, he was presented with Book of Prests for the King's Wardrobe for 1294-5, 'an entire medieval wardrobe book' which he had delved into from his earliest days of research. His eightieth birthday was marked by a special volume of the Flintshire Historical Society, vol. 24. On the occasion of his retirement as director
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian did invaluable work for American Baptist history: (1) the printing of the minutes of the influential Philadelphia Baptist Association; (2) the publication, 1770, of his Materials towards a History of the Baptists in Pennsylvania; and (3) in 1792, of a companion volume for New Jersey.
EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament volume are in the library of Nuffield College, Oxford, but this has not been published) were the best available studies on these subjects. He died 3 May 1968.
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, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes turnpike gate, and later keeping an inn at Llandilo. On his return to North Wales in 1786 he had to fall back once again on interlude acting, but eventually settled down at Denbigh, where he worked as a stonemason. For a short time in 1808 he was employed by W. A. Madocks on the building of the Portmadoc embankment. He died 3 April 1810 and was buried at Whitchurch near Denbigh. It was Twm o'r Nant's
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Cynonfardd; 1848 - 1927), Independent minister and eisteddfodwr health and became minister successively of Mineral Ridge Independent chapel, Ohio, 1871-2, the First Congregational Church, Wilkes-barre, Pennsylvania, 1872-8, Wilkes-barre and Edwardsville, 1878-80, Edwardsville, 1880-91, Ebenezer, Cardiff, 1891-3, and Edwardsville again, 1893-1927. In America he was one of the most successful ministers of his time, and his church was one of the largest in the States

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