Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire wife of one of his great-grandsons - TIMOTHY EDWARDS (1731 - 1780), a captain in the Royal Navy - was very prominent in her support of the Welsh Independent cause at Capel Newydd, near Nanhoron. Their grandson, RICHARD LLOYD EDWARDS (1806 - 1876), was a stalwart Conservative and Churchman, D.L. of Caernarvonshire, high sheriff at various times of three Welsh counties, and in the forefront of the
EDWARDS, RICHARD (fl. 1840-1884), Baptist minister and editor of Welsh-American periodicals
EDWARDS, RICHARD, girdler - see WYNN
EDWARDS, RICHARD FOULKES (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd; 1836 - 1870), poet
EDWARDS, RICHARD LLOYD Nanhoron (1806 - 1876) - see EDWARDS, RICHARD
EDWARDS, RICHARD OWEN (1808 - ?), musician - see EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer Born, probably at Felinganol, Caerfallwch, Northop, Flintshire, in 1779, and christened at Northop 5 March 1780, son of Richard and Margaret Edwards. After a short period at Northop grammar school he was apprenticed at the age of 14 to a Mold saddler, at whose house he was given the opportunity of reading English books and newspapers. When his apprenticeship was over he and a companion walked to
EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN (1777 - 1855), engraver landscapes, including one after Salvator Rosa, Edwards excelled as an engraver of portraits. His work includes engravings of portraits after Reynolds, Lawrence, Richard Cosway, Ozias Humphrey, Kneller, Hoppner, Gainsborough, Samuel Cooper, and Opie. Dawson Turner (1775 - 1858), botanist and antiquary, owned a complete series of his engravings and etchings. Edwards died 22 August 1855 and was buried in the
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School spring of 1893 he was chairing the meeting of the College Council which appointed the medical school's foundation professors of anatomy and physiology in time for a 4th October start. On 14 February 1894 the Cardiff Medical School was officially opened by Sir Richard Quain, president of the General Medical Council, who congratulated 'gallant little Wales' on its achievement, the proceedings chaired
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT (c. 1258 - 1282), princess and diplomat Eleanor was youngest child and the only surviving daughter of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester (c. 1208-1265) and his wife, Eleanor (1215?-1275), countess of Pembroke and Leicester. Eleanor's brothers were Henry de Montfort, Simon de Montfort, Amaury de Montfort, Guy de Montfort and Richard de Montfort. She was the wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (died 1282). It is not known where Eleanor was
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher preacher spread throughout Wales. For a brief period he attended the school kept by Evan Richardson, Caernarvon. On 22 February 1799 he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Broadhead, Tre'r Gof, Cemmaes, Anglesey, and went to live in Anglesey, making his home in Llanfechell, near Cemmaes, where his wife kept a shop. He was ordained in 1811 (at the first ordination service of the connexion). His
ELIAS, WILLIAM (1708 - 1787), poet According to David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), he hailed from Clynnog - Elias ap Richard of Talhenbont smithy was his father, says J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees). He is said to have started life as a shoemaker, and the list of subscribers to the Diddanwch teuluaidd, 1763, and an occasional note in the manuscripts (e.g. Wynnstay MSS. 7, 105, 131, etc.), confirm this. Later, he became a farmer and land

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