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EDMONDES, CHARLES GRESFORD (1838 - 1893), archdeacon and college principal Born 8 December 1838, eldest son of THOMAS EDMONDES (1806 - 1892), vicar of Cowbridge; his mother (Harriet Anne) was a sister of Charles Williams (1806 - 1877), afterwards principal of Jesus College, Oxford; his brother FREDERICK WILLIAM EDMONDES (1841 - 1918) was archdeacon of Llandaff. From Cowbridge and Sherborne schools, Charles Edmondes went up to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1856, graduated
EDMONDES, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1841 - 1918), Archdeacon of Llandaff - gweler EDMONDES, CHARLES GRESFORD
EDMONDES, THOMAS (1806 - 1892), vicar - gweler EDMONDES, CHARLES GRESFORD
EDMUNDS, WILLIAM (1827 - 1875), cleric, schoolmaster, and man of letters , Cardiganshire, but he did not reside there. In 1856 he published a Welsh spelling book, Gwers-lyfr Llanbedr: yn Cynwys Gwersi Hawdd i Ddysgu Sillebu a Darllen Cymraeg. In 1856 also he published the 8th edition of Y Ffydd Ddiffuant (by Charles Edwards), with explanatory notes. In 1859 he read before the Cambrian Archaeological Association at Cardigan a paper ' On some old families in the neighbourhood of
teulu EDWARDS Stansty, physician to Charles I. As Fellow of Christ Church he refused to submit to the Parliamentary visitors in 1648 (10 May), but there is no record of his expulsion. JONATHAN EDWARDS (third son, born 1615) went to Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 3 February 1633), graduated B.A. 1634 (9 June), became M.A. and Fellow 1637 (24 April), and D.D. (November 1642). By 1679 he was archdeacon of Londonerry. Their
EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters insanity. He completed the writing of the autobiography on 1 July 1691; what his history was after that is not known. Y Ffydd Ddi-ffuant has won a secure place for itself among Welsh prose classics. It cannot be denied that Charles Edwards is the chief writer of Welsh prose between the days of Morgan Llwyd and those of Ellis Wynne.
EDWARDS, CHARLES ALFRED (1882 - 1960), metallurgist and principal of University College of Swansea
EDWARDS, ELLIS (1844 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister and principal of Bala Theological College : ethics, apologetics, comparative religion, and afterwards divinity. Before the college was converted into a purely theological institution (1891) he devoted himself largely to Latin, Greek, and English literature. He delivered the Davies lecture ('The Being of God') in 1903. He fell far short of Lewis Edwards in theology and of Thomas Charles Edwards in exegesis, but in all subjects which lay on the
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet seven years in London as a bookseller's assistant - this is supported by the controversy between him and Jonathan Hughes. Cain Jones, the almanac-maker, was his son and, according to Charles Ashton and others, John Edwards too was an almanac-maker. He was one of the poets who took part in the eisteddfodau of the 18th century - Bala 1738, Glyn Ceiriog 1743, Selattyn 1748, etc. - and many of his poems
EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of D.D. honoris causa. He married, 30 December 1836, Jane Charles granddaughter of Thomas Charles of Bala, and the following year he and his brother-in-law, David Charles III opened a school at Bala, which was promptly adopted as the preparatory school for ministers of the Calvinistic Methodist denomination. It was here that he carried out his great life
EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, exegete and preacher calls on Edwards as a preacher. But, in spite of all criticism, there is no difficulty in accepting the following verdict: 'If it is no exaggeration to say that without Sir Hugh Owen the University College of Wales would never have been established, it is certainly less to say that it would never have reached its twentieth birthday but for Thomas Charles Edwards. It was his magnetic personality and
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1773 - 1853), hymnwriter assisted Thomas Charles in setting up these schools around the town. His claim to remembrance is a small book which he published at Bala in 1818, Ychydig Hymnau ar Destunau Athrawiaethol a Phrofiadol - two or three of our best-known hymns are his work. The exact days of his birth and death are not known.

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