Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDISBURY family Bedwal, Marchwiel, Pentre-clawdd, Erddig, This Cheshire family, descended from Wilkin de Edisbury, first appears in Denbighshire c. 1544, when RICHARD WILKINSON, alias EDISBURY, held lands in Bedwal. His younger son, ROBERT WILKINSON EDISBURY (died 1610), extended the estate by marriage with Jane, daughter of Kenrick ap Howel of Stryt yr Hwch, Marchwiel. Their son, KENRICK EDISBURY (died 1638), entered the service of the Navy Board
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge aunt. Welsh was the language of the home, and the family worshipped at Rhos Baptist Chapel in Mountain Ash. Edmund's Christian faith remained vital to him throughout his life. Thanks to a scholarship he was able to attend Mountain Ash Grammar School. He was planning to become a teacher, but his two uncles who were solicitors convinced him to study law, which he did at King's College, London, gaining
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd branches of the family (Survey of Denbigh. lv, 297, 303; Ellis, Tribal Law and Custom, i, 113), Ednyfed's own descendants in the same period are found in the townships of Trecastell, Penmynydd, Erddreiniog, Clorach, Gwredog, Trysglwyn, and Tregarnedd in Anglesey, and in Crewyrion, Creuddyn, Gloddaeth, Dinorwig, and Cwmllannerch in Caernarfonshire (Rec. Caern., passim). They are also found in Llansadwrn
EDWARDS family Cilhendre, Plas Yolyn, This Border family claimed descent from Iddon ap Rhys Sais of Cilhendre, who married a daughter of Sir John Done, also an ancestor of the Myddeltons and of John Jones (1597? - 1660) the regicide. The surname was adopted early in the 16th century, but the family did not become prominent till the 17th century, when THOMAS EDWARDS (1592 - 1667), of Cilhendre and Plas Yolyn, an intimate friend of the
EDWARDS family Stansty, This family boasted continuous occupation of the same area from 1317, when David ap Meilir is said to have bought the manor of Stansty, to 1783, when his direct line died out. The surname was first stabilized by JOHN EDWARDS (1573 - 1635), son of David ab Edward; his executorship of the will under which his neighbour Sir William Meredith established a 'lectureship' at Wrexham suggests Puritan
EDWARDS family Chirkland, This ancient Denbighshire family, descended from Tudur Trevor (see Trevor of Brynkynallt, ad. init.), settled from an early date in the cymwd of Nanheudwy and branching out into Flintshire first come into prominence in the person of JOHN AB EDWARD, or EDWARDS (died 1498), receiver and chief forester of Chirkland under Sir W. Stanley. His son WILLIAM EDWARDS (died 1532) distinguished himself at
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, DAVID (1660 - 1716), Independent minister circuit, namely Crug-y-maen, Llwyn-rhys, and Cilgwyn. He died 29 September 1716, aged 56, and in his will left books to the ministers, Philip Pugh and Jenkin Jones (1695 - 1725) - (see Jones family of Llwyn-rhys), who were at the time his colleagues in the circuit. His grand-daughter Elinor married Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho.
EDWARDS, GWILYM ARTHUR (1881 - 1963), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth, and author Born 31 May 1881 at Caernarfon, son of Owen Edwards, Presb. minister, a native of Llanuwchllyn (and cousin of Sir Owen M. Edwards,, and Mary (née Jones) his wife. The father emigrated to Australia to regain his health, but his wife died before she could take her family to join him in Melbourne. The three sons were brought up by her parents in Dolgellau. He was educated in the county school
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor by his own hand, at Ruabon. A selection of his addresses was published in 1889 under the title Wales and the Welsh Church, with a memoir by David Jones which has been the main source of the present notice. Edwards was twice married: first in 1867 to Mary, daughter of D. Davis of Aberdare (for whom see Davis family of Hirwaun, Aberdare, and Ferndale) - she died in August 1871; and second in 1873 to
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician in a poor and disadvantaged Welsh family and community. His father, who worked in a granite quarry in Penmaen-mawr and earned some extra income from his smallholding, had very strong nonconformist religious beliefs, but, although he attended the chapel for most of his life, these were not inherited by his son. However, nonconformist values relating to social justice, rather than Marxism, played a
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru Son of Sir O.M. Edwards and Ellen his wife and born 25 July 1895 in Tremaran, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, though he was brought up in Oxford until the family returned to Llanuwchllyn in 1907. He went to Bala grammar school and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1912-15). After serving as a soldier in France (1915-18) he entered Lincoln College, Oxford (1918-20) and graduated in history

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