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EDWARDS, HUMPHREY (1730 - 1788), physician and apothecary Son of Robert Edwards, rector of Llan-rug from 1725 to 1733. Robert Edwards had a small collection of Welsh manuscripts (NLW MSS., Panton 29, 81 et seq.); his daughter Margaret was the wife of Nicholas Owen, rector of Llandyfrydog, and mother of Nicholas Owen, rector of Mellteyrn from 1799 to 1811. Humphrey Edwards was interested in English literature and on 2 January 1782 was lent two volumes of
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician Welsh poems, and a volume on the history of trade union developments in north Wales. Huw T. Edwards died at Abergele Hospital on 8 November 1970, of arterio-sclerosis, bronchitis and emphysema. He was cremated at Pentrebychan crematorium and his ashes were scattered close to where he was born on the slopes of Tal-y-fan. Through the efforts of his family and his biographer, Gwyn Jenkins, and with the
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru . He retired 2 yrs later so as to devote his whole attention to Urdd Gobaith Cymru. After his father's death he felt compelled to continue his father's work. He edited Cymru (1920-27) and Cymru'r Plant (1920-50), with Cronicl yr Urdd as an appendix (1928-33), as well as inaugurating the magazine Y Capten (1931-32) for young people. It was his letter in the January 1922 issue of Cymru'r Plant that led
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Treredyn; 1606? - c. 1660?), cleric and translator He himself says that he was born on the banks of the Severn in Gwent; if he is the John Edwards who matriculated at Oxford, from Jesus College, 30 April 1624, at the age of 18, then he was from Caldicott; he graduated B.A. in 1626 and proceeded M.A. in 1629. According to Alumni Oxonienses he was appointed rector of Llanmartin in 1626 and received three other livings - Wilcrick in 1631-2
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. Born 15 January 1770, son of John Edwards (died 1789) of Greenfields, Machynlleth (now Plas Machynlleth). He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 8 December 1787, was lieutenant-colonel in the Montgomeryshire Militia, high sheriff of Merioneth, 1805, and of Montgomeryshire, 1818. Between 1832 and 1841 he fought four elections as a Whig in an attempt to win and keep the Montgomery boroughs
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet are characteristic of the work of the eisteddfod poets, more particularly his best-known work, the twenty-four englynion to the belfry of Llangollen church, 1749. He translated the second and 'third' parts of The Pilgrim's Progress. Judging by the translator's 'Notice' the second part was published (by Stafford Prys) probably in 1761-2 and not in 1767 as William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) asserts. The
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 (1755 - 1823), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born 8 September 1755 at Ereiniog, Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, a farm on which his ancestors had lived for many generations. When young, he was something of a poet and interludist, but about 1774-5 his thoughts were turned to religion, and in 1787 he began preaching. He married (c. 1790) Elizabeth Jones of Hafod Ifan (Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire). In 1795 he had to leave his farm, as the landowner
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian September 1925 he married Gwladys (died 1982), daughter of the Reverend William Williams. They had first met at Holywell County School, though Gwladys graduated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in music; she and Goronwy shared a deep love of music throughout their lives. Edwards was senior tutor at Jesus from 1931 and vice-principal in 1945-8, and was a key figure in the University's
EDWARDS, JOHN HUGH (1869 - 1945), politician and writer the statesman, 2 vols. (New York, 1929), and another edition (London, 1930). He married, 20 April 1933, Doris, daughter of Sir Samuel Faire, Glenfield, Frith Park, Leicester. During the last years of his life he lived at Hindhead, Surrey; there he was actively connected with the Free Church Council and Ratepayers' Association affairs. He died 14 June 1945 at Hindhead.
EDWARDS, JOHN MENLOVE (1910 - 1958), rock climber his sister near Canterbury in 1944. He was admitted to mental hospitals, including Denbigh (1949-50). On 2 February 1958 he took his life by potassium cyanide. His ashes were scattered near Hafod Owen. He had been elected an hon. member of the Climbing Club and although one or two of his contemporaries were equally good (if not better) climbers, the atmosphere of the 1930s on the rock-face in
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian was buried at Philadelphia. Morgan Edwards, a conspicuously able and scholarly minister, did much for education: (1) at Philadelphia, of whose college he was M.A. and Fellow; (2) in the college (now Brown University) at Providence, Rhode Island (of which he was M.A. and Fellow), the charter of which he helped to secure and for which he collected thousands of pounds in England and elsewhere. He also

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