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  • EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters and 1675 he came into contact with Stephen Hughes and Thomas Gouge and the Englishmen who formed the ' Welsh Trust ' with the object of establishing charity schools and publishing Welsh books to be distributed free to poor persons. He was in London, therefore, until 1684, superintending the work of printing those books. He also published some works of his own, including the 3rd edition of Y Ffydd
  • EDWARDS, DAVID (c. 1660 - 1716), gweinidog Annibynnol Trigai yn Abermeurig, ym mlaen dyffryn Aeron, ac yr oedd yn berchen tai a thiroedd ym mhlwyfi Nantcwnlle a Llanddewibrefi. Yr oedd yn gymydog a chyfaill i'r amaethwr John Jones, Llwyn Rhys, arweinydd ymneilltuaeth yng nghanolbarth Ceredigion. Yr oedd Edwards yn ysgolhaig da, ac ordeiniwyd ef yn weinidog cynorthwyol i David Jones yng Nghaeronnen, Cellan, ac eglwysi eraill y gylchdaith, sef
  • EDWARDS, DAVID (1660 - 1716), Independent minister He lived at Abermeurig, in the vale of Ayron, and was a landed proprietor in the parishes of Nantcwnlle and Llanddewi-brefi. He was a friend and neighbour of John Jones, farmer, of Llwyn-rhys, the leading Independent in central Cardiganshire. Edwards was a competent scholar and was ordained assistant minister to David Jones (c. 1630 - 1704?), at Caeronnen, Cellan, and other churches in the
  • EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), clerigwr ac ysgolhaig 1783 i gymryd rheithoraeth Aston Clinton, Swydd Buckingham; ac yn ôl llythyr gan Samuel Johnson yr oedd wedi marw erbyn 1784. Yr oedd Johnson ac yntau'n gyfeillion ac yn llythyru â'i gilydd, a bu Johnson yn aros gydag ef yng Ngholeg Iesu yn 1782. 'My convivial friend' yw disgrifiad Johnson ohono, a chadarnheir yr awgrym gan Richard Morris pan edrydd ef hanes derbyn Edwards yn aelod o'r Cymmrodorion
  • EDWARDS, EDWARD (Pencerdd Ceredigion; 1816 - 1897), cerddor Ganwyd yn Little Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, mab i John Edwards. Hanoedd o deulu cerddorol, ac yn ddyn ieuanc mynychai yntau eglwys Llanbadarn, lle y ceid canu rhagorol gan y côr. Symudodd y teulu i fyw i Blaenycwm, ger Capel Dewi, dewiswyd ef yn arweinydd canu yng nghapel y Methodistiaid, a pharhaodd i fod yn arweinydd am dros 70 o flynyddoedd. Daeth i Aberystwyth i ddilyn ei alwedigaeth fel
  • EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar rector of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, and according to a letter of Samuel Johnson's he was dead by 1784. Johnson and he were friends and correspondents, and Johnson stayed with him at Jesus in 1782. 'My convivial friend' is Johnson's description of Edwards - and the hint is amplified in Richard Morris's account of Edwards's reception into the Cymmrodorion Society in 1763. He was not without
  • EDWARDS, EDWARD (Pencerdd Ceredigion; 1816 - 1897), musician Born in Little Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, son of John Edwards. As a young man he attended the church of Llanbadarn-fawr, where there was a good choir. He moved with his parents to Blaen-y-cwm, Capel Dewi; there he was appointed precentor at the Calvinistic Methodist chapel. He came to Aberystwyth to work as a shoemaker and there came into contact with a number of good musicians who lived in
  • EDWARDS family Chirkland, dienyddio Richard Gwyn yn 1582. Ychwanegodd yn fawr at ystadau'r teulu trwy brynu (c. 1562) tiroedd a ddaethai'n eiddo i'r Goron wedi dienyddio Syr William Stanley; adeiladodd y tŷ a elwid yn Plas Newydd (neu New Hall) ar y cyntaf ac wedyn yn Chirk Hall. Yr oedd JOHN EDWARDS III (bu farw 1625), mab John Edwards II, yn Babydd yn 1586, ond cydffurfiodd ddigon i gael ei wneuthur yn ustus heddwch (yn 1595
  • EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), milwr a meistr tir goleuedig Ganwyd yn Ness Strange, Swydd Amwythig, mab hynaf John Edwards (ustus heddwch, dirprwy-raglaw, etc.) a Charlotte, wyres y 3ydd dug Atholl. Cafodd ei addysg yn ysgol Donnington, Swydd Amwythig. Yn 16 oed aeth i wasnaethu'r East India Company. Dychwelodd cyn 1837 a bu'n ysgrifennydd i'r arglwydd Clive adeg terfysg y Siartwyr yn Sir Drefaldwyn; daeth i gael ei adnabod fel 'the man in the great coat
  • EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), soldier and enlightened landowner Born in Ness Strange, Shropshire, the elder son of John Edwards (Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, etc.) and Charlotte, grand-daughter of the 3rd Duke of Atholl. He was educated at Donnington School, Shropshire. When he was 16 he joined the East India Company. He returned before 1837 and became secretary to Lord Clive at the time of the Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire. He became known in
  • EDWARDS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Padarn; 1812 - 1893), cleric, poet and antiquary periodicals. A volume of sermons by him, Deg-ar-hugain o Bregethau, was published in 1854. He was the editor of the collected works of John Blackwell, Ceinion Alun, 1851, and wrote a history of the parishes of Llangadfan, Garthbeibio, and Llanerfyl. He died 29 January 1893.
  • EDWARDS, GWILYM ARTHUR (1881 - 1963), gweinidog (MC), prifathro Coleg Diwinyddol Aberystwyth, ac awdur Ngholeg y Bala, a bu'n cydweithio yno â'r Prifathro David Phillips hyd 1939. O 1939 hyd 1949 bu'n brifathro Coleg Diwinyddol Aberystwyth. Anrhydeddwyd ef yn 1946 â gradd D.D. gan Brifysgol Caeredin. Priododd, 1917, Mary Nesta, merch Richard Hughes, milfeddyg, o Groesoswallt; ganwyd mab a dwy ferch o'r briodas. Wedi ymddeol dychwelodd i Groesoswallt, ac yno y bu farw 5 Hydref 1963; claddwyd ei weddillion