Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, EDWARD (Pencerdd Ceredigion; 1816 - 1897), musician Business and Industry Performing Arts Music Edward Edward's son, of Great Darkgate Street, was a prominent vocalist; he had spent some time in the U.S.A. as vocalist. He was also a zealous Esperantist.
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1865 - 1933), professor of history - see EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN
EDWARDS, EDWARD, bridge-builder - see EDWARDS, WILLIAM
EDWARDS, EVAN (1734 - 1766), harpist Born at Creigiau'r Bleiddiau, Cerrig-y-drudion. He was an able harpist of whom Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin, 1752 - 1824) says that he had a natural gift for music and had a beautiful touch on the harp. There is a local tradition that he died suddenly with his fingers still clutching the harp-strings. He died in June 1766 and was buried in Cerrig-y-drudion churchyard.
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Treredyn; 1606? - c. 1660?), cleric and translator , Tredunnock in 1633, and Magor in 1635, all of them in Gwent. It has been suggested by some that here we have two men bearing the same name, but no proof is available. However, there is no doubt that the translator held the living of Tredunnock (Tredynog, Treredynog) and that he lost it in 1649. It is not known when he died. In 1651 he published a translation of Edward Fisher's Marrow of Modern Divinity
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet Born at Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire - perhaps he is the John, son of Edward Jones, who was christened there 27 December 1699. The burial of 'John Edwards the Welsh Poet' at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, 28 December 1776, is registered, and it is said that for a time his home was near the churchyard. He is stated to have given up his craft as a weaver shortly after his marriage and to have spent
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician being ' Rhosymedre ' (also called ' Lovely ' - Vaughan Williams's Choral Prelude on the Welsh Tune 'Lovely,' based on 'Rhosymedre,' was played on the organ at the Church musical festival held in the Crystal Palace, London, 21 July 1933). Edwards was considered one of the best music adjudicators in Wales in his time; it was he, together with Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), who awarded the first prize 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
EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian Born 27 October 1809 at Pwllcenawon, Pen-llwyn, Cardiganshire, the eldest son of Lewis and Margaret Edward. He attended the local schools at Glanrafon, Pen-y-banc, and the Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Pen-llwyn. He was also educated at the Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn schools, at the school kept at Aberystwyth by John Evans (1796 - 1861), and at Llangeitho. In 1827 he opened a small school of his
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters Born at Coed-y-pry, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, on 26 December 1858, eldest son of Owen and Elizabeth Edwards; their third son, EDWARD EDWARDS (1865 - 1933), was professor of history at Aberystwyth from 1896 to 1930. The story of Owen Edwards's early education has been charmingly (but not with meticulous accuracy) related by himself in his Clych Adgof, 1906. Intended for the ministry, he went to
EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire Jeffrey Glynn, the taciturn Anglican of Gwynfryn by Pwllheli, and to draft a will for Edward Williams of Meillionydd in 1677, under which a capital sum was to be set apart to found a grammar school at Pwllheli, with Edwards himself as one of the feoffees in trust. He was appointed deputy-mayor of Caernarvon in 1668, and sheriff of the county in 1696. These accessions to office and his close familiarity
EDWARDS, THOMAS (1652 - 1721), cleric and Coptic scholar Bodleian library. From 1690-1708 he was vicar of Badby, Northants; then rector of Aldwinckle All Saints until his death 5 September 1721. His only published works seem to be A Discourse Against Extempore Prayer (London, 1703), criticized by Edward Calamy in such a way as to provoke Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture (London, 1705).

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