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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, GWILYM ARTHUR (1881 - 1963), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth, and author appointed professor at Bala College, and worked there with Principal David Phillips until 1939. From 1939 to 1949 he was principal of the Theological College at Aberystwyth. He was awarded an honorary D.D. degree by the University of Edinburgh. In 1917 he married Mary Nesta, daughter of Richard Hughes, a veterinary surgeon in Oswestry; they had a son and two daughters. After retiring he returned to
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747 - 1792), bard and orator the Gwyneddigion offered a silver medal for an elegy on Richard Morris in 1780, Siôn Ceiriog wrote a poem in blank verse, described as 'pindaric' (B.M. Add. MS. 14993, 57-8). Although it was Richard Jones, Trefdraeth, who won the medal, the society maintained that Siôn Ceiriog had written the better poem and he was given what was called an 'honorary medal.' Apart from this, little of his work has
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician ' Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear,' the anthem composed by J. Ambrose Lloyd at the Bethesda eisteddfod of 1852. He was also a good preacher and an acceptable parish priest. He died 24 November 1885 at Llanddoget rectory, the home of his nephew, and was buried in Tal-y-llyn. His brother RICHARD OWEN EDWARDS, born 31 July 1808, was also a pupil of Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, and went to Ystrad Meurig school. He taught music in
EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire wife of one of his great-grandsons - TIMOTHY EDWARDS (1731 - 1780), a captain in the Royal Navy - was very prominent in her support of the Welsh Independent cause at Capel Newydd, near Nanhoron. Their grandson, RICHARD LLOYD EDWARDS (1806 - 1876), was a stalwart Conservative and Churchman, D.L. of Caernarvonshire, high sheriff at various times of three Welsh counties, and in the forefront of the
EDWARDS, RICHARD (fl. 1840-1884), Baptist minister and editor of Welsh-American periodicals
EDWARDS, RICHARD, girdler - gweler WYNN
EDWARDS, RICHARD FOULKES (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd; 1836 - 1870), poet
EDWARDS, RICHARD LLOYD Nanhoron (1806 - 1876) - gweler EDWARDS, RICHARD
EDWARDS, RICHARD OWEN (1808 - ?), musician - gweler EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer Born, probably at Felinganol, Caerfallwch, Northop, Flintshire, in 1779, and christened at Northop 5 March 1780, son of Richard and Margaret Edwards. After a short period at Northop grammar school he was apprenticed at the age of 14 to a Mold saddler, at whose house he was given the opportunity of reading English books and newspapers. When his apprenticeship was over he and a companion walked to
EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN (1777 - 1855), engraver landscapes, including one after Salvator Rosa, Edwards excelled as an engraver of portraits. His work includes engravings of portraits after Reynolds, Lawrence, Richard Cosway, Ozias Humphrey, Kneller, Hoppner, Gainsborough, Samuel Cooper, and Opie. Dawson Turner (1775 - 1858), botanist and antiquary, owned a complete series of his engravings and etchings. Edwards died 22 August 1855 and was buried in the

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