Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. seat from the Tories, spending over £20,000 in the process. The borough of Montgomery, which since 1728 had enjoyed the sole right of electing a borough member, had long been under the control of the Herbert family of Powis castle Edwards had for some time been 'nursing' the borough of Machynlleth which, with Llanidloes, Welshpool, Llanfyllin, and Newtown, were added to the constituency by the Reform
EDWARDS, JOHN (1882 - 1960), politician and barrister Born at Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, on 28 February 1882, the son of James Edwards, the minister at Soar Congregational Chapel, Llanbadarn, and his wife, Rachel Jones. The family had moved to Neath by 7 January 1883 when his father became minister of Soar Chapel in that town. He was educated at the British School and the intermediate school at Neath. He won a scholarship to the University
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian brought up in their Welsh-speaking, Calvinistic Methodist home, and the family returned to Halkyn in 1893 when John Edwards became the signalman at Bagillt on the railway line between Holyhead and Chester. Goronwy was proud of his Anglo-Welsh heritage and his Flintshire roots in a border society. He attended Halkyn National School, and then, in 1902, Holywell County Grammar School where his interest in
EDWARDS, JOHN MENLOVE (1910 - 1958), rock climber Born 18 June 1910 at Crossens near Southport, Lancashire, the youngest of the vicar's four children. He believed the Edwards family came from Wales though he did not know when: the grandfather was also a vicar and a pioneering socialist. Menlove was educated at Feetes College before entering Liverpool University where he graduated in medicine in 1933. There in 1930 he and his brother, Hewlett
EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian own at Aberystwyth, but shortly afterwards moved to Llangeitho, where he became a school teacher. Within a year he left to become private tutor to the family of John Lloyd, Pentowyn, Meidrym, Carmarthenshire. While at Llangeitho he dedicated himself to the work of the Calvinistic Methodist ministry, and in August 1829 at the Llangeitho Association was accepted as a regular preacher of that
EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire A member of an ancient family, his immediate forebears allied with Abércain and Pénllech, his first wife a daughter of Saethon, it was his second marriage with a niece of Thomas Wynn of Boduan (or ' Bodfean ' - see under Wynn of Rug) that brought him within the orbit of the higher gentry. Proofs of his active Parliamentary sympathies are scanty, but the new Restoration powers definitely placed
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes them. When his fortunes took a turn for the better, he returned to timber hauling in Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, until he found himself once more in financial difficulties through having become surety for an uncle of his who became bankrupt. This time he betook himself to South Wales, where he maintained himself and his family by timber hauling at Abermarlais and other places, farming a

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