Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters Son of Robert Edwards of Rhyd-y-croesau in the township of Lledrod, Llansilin, Denbighshire. Very little is known of his early youth; in 1644 he was elected ' Bible Clerk ' in All Souls College, Oxford. In 1648 he was expelled from that college because of an unsatisfactory answer which he had given to the visitors sent to the university to ask the members of the various colleges whether they were
EDWARDS, CHARLES ALFRED (1882 - 1960), metallurgist and principal of University College of Swansea recommending the addition of oxygen to the air blown into iron blast furnaces, a practice which became common about fifty years later. Further research publications led to the award of a D.Sc. in 1913. In 1908 he married Florence Edith Roberts and their son was born in 1913. C.A. Edwards succeeded Carpenter as professor of Metallurgy in Manchester in 1914 and succeeded in combining government work on steel
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, HUMPHREY (1730 - 1788), physician and apothecary Son of Robert Edwards, rector of Llan-rug from 1725 to 1733. Robert Edwards had a small collection of Welsh manuscripts (NLW MSS., Panton 29, 81 et seq.); his daughter Margaret was the wife of Nicholas Owen, rector of Llandyfrydog, and mother of Nicholas Owen, rector of Mellteyrn from 1799 to 1811. Humphrey Edwards was interested in English literature and on 2 January 1782 was lent two volumes of
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician fluctuating views. In the autumn of 1964 a Labour government was elected under the leadership of Harold Wilson (whom Huw T believed to have good left-wing qualifications). A Welsh Office was established under James Griffiths who became the first holder of the post of secretary of state for Wales. At the same time some Welsh devolutionists, such as Cledwyn Hughes and Goronwy Roberts, were promoted to
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747 - 1792), bard and orator Born in Glynceiriog, Denbighshire. He went as a young man to London and, after getting to know Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) he joined the Society of Gwyneddigion. From then on until his death in September 1792 he was one of the most prominent members of the society: he was secretary in 1779, president in 1783, and he was regarded as the bard of the society. When
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet third part was published 'for Dafydd Llwyd of Bala ' at Chester in 1768 - a Robert Llwyd of Bala is mentioned in the second part as one of the translator's friends. This was the earliest translation of the 'third' part into Welsh.
EDWARDS, JOHN (1882 - 1960), politician and barrister (1935), and professional contributions to the English and Empire Law Digest and to legal journals. He married in London on 27 October 1932, Gweno Elin, the eldest daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan and Jane Clayton, of Alexandria, Egypt; her father was a major benefactor of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (see BRYAN, ROBERT,. They had two sons and a daughter. He lived at Llwyn, 11 West Road
EDWARDS, ROBERT (Robin Ddu o Feirion; 1775 - 1805), poet and antiquary
EDWARDS, ROBERT (1796 - 1862), musician -four years, as precentor there, he succeeded John Ellis (1760 - 1839). He composed ' Caersalem,' 8.7.4., one of the most popular hymn-tunes in Wales. Written in 1824, it appeared in Peroriaeth Hyfryd (John Parry), 1837, and became known as ' Tôn Bob y Felin ' (Bob of the Mill's tune). In 1878 it was published in Y Cysegr a'r Teulu (Thomas Gee), and there attributed to E. Roberts, but information
EDWARDS, ROBERT (fl. 1725-1733), rector - see EDWARDS, HUMPHREY
EDWARDS, ROGER (1811 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister the Association (1870 and 1886). As editor of Y Drysorfa (1847-86; up to 1853 jointly with John Roberts of Liverpool), by first publishing in serial form his own novels, starting with Y Tri Brawd, 1866, he allayed Methodist suspicion of fictional literature and thus prepared the way for Daniel Owen, whose 'discoverer' he was, inducing him to contribute Y Dreflan to that journal. He was, jointly with

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