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EDWARDS, JOHN WYN Bodewryd (bu farw 1614) - gweler WYNN
EDWARDS, JOSEPH (1814 - 1882), sculptor , and his work remains today in many churches and cemeteries in Wales, in Westminster Abbey, in Merthyr town hall, and elsewhere. He executed busts of members of the Beaufort, Guest, Raglan, and Crawshay families, and of such well-known Welsh people as Taliesin ap Iolo, Thomas Stephens, G. T. Clark, William Williams (M.P. for Coventry), and Edith Wynne. In 1859 the widow of George Virtue, proprietor
EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian , Carmarthenshire. There too he opened a school, but his appetite for more learning was insatiable, and he and one of his pupils, John Phillips (1810 - 1867), decided to go to Edinburgh University, October 1833, to his heroes Thomas Chalmers and 'Christopher North.' He was given permission to sit for the degree of M.A. in three years instead of the customary four, and passed with honours. In 1865 the University
EDWARDS, MILES (1743 - 1808), Baptist minister Born at Goytre, Monmouthshire, in 1743. His father (Rev. Thomas Edwards, Llanwenarth) died in 1746 and his mother removed to Pontypool, where (at Pen-y-garn, in 1766) he began to preach. Trained at Trosnant, at Leominster, and at Bristol Baptist Academy, he was ordained in 1775 as assistant minister at Bethedsa (Bassaleg, Monmouth). In 1776 he was elected minister of a new church which was
EDWARDS, PETER (Pedr Alaw; 1854 - 1934), musician Born at Castle Cottage, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, son of John and Elizabeth Edwards. Educated at the Rhuddlan national school, he showed when quite young a fondness for music and learnt the tonic sol-fa system when he was a member of the choir of his chapel. After leaving school he worked in the office of a timber merchant at Rhyl, proceeding thence to similar work in Liverpool; there, at Bootle, he
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, RICHARD FOULKES (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd; 1836 - 1870), poet Born 14 January 1836 in the Bodfari district of Denbighshire. At an early age he removed with his parents to Plas Llanychan, Ruthin. He started writing poetry when he was very young, and in 1856 gained second place at the Bangor eisteddfod for his awdl, 'Yr Amaethwr.' In 1858 a volume of his poems, Y Blaenffrwyth, was published by Thomas Gee, Denbigh. He won the chair at the Llandudno eisteddfod
EDWARDS, ROBERT (1796 - 1862), musician -four years, as precentor there, he succeeded John Ellis (1760 - 1839). He composed ' Caersalem,' 8.7.4., one of the most popular hymn-tunes in Wales. Written in 1824, it appeared in Peroriaeth Hyfryd (John Parry), 1837, and became known as ' Tôn Bob y Felin ' (Bob of the Mill's tune). In 1878 it was published in Y Cysegr a'r Teulu (Thomas Gee), and there attributed to E. Roberts, but information
EDWARDS, ROGER (1811 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister Lewis Edwards, a founder-editor of Y Drysorfa, continuing as joint editor (for the last ten years with Owen Thomas) until 1865. His greatest service was perhaps rendered as editor of Cronicl Oes, 1835-9, the first political newspaper in Welsh. He showed audacity and courage in venturing openly to espouse Radical principles, thereby incurring the wrath of John Elias and defying the official
EDWARDS, THOMAS (1649 - 1700) Rhual,, Puritan controversialist Born at Rhual 9 October 1649, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Edwards. On 2 August 1672 he married Jane, fifth daughter of Robert Davies, Gwysaney; they had no issue. Thomas Edwards was a member of the Dissenting church at Wrexham, and in the controversy about the views of Daniel Williams he supported the Independents and High Calvinism. His chief contribution to the controversy was the book, The
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer
EDWARDS, THOMAS (1652 - 1721), cleric and Coptic scholar New Testament held up by the death of its editor Dr. Thomas Marshall in 1675. Owing to the death (1686) of John Fell, bishop of Oxford, his patron (credited by Schwartze with persuading him to take up Coptic), further publication of the Coptic N.T. was suspended, and he was never able to publish even a specimen of his manuscript Coptic lexicon compiled from various sources and preserved in the

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