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EDEN, Sir Ashley (3 son of 3 Baron Auckland 1799–1870). b. Hertingfordbury Herts. 13 Nov. 1831; ed. at Rugby and Winchester; entered Indian civil service 1852; sec. to government of Bengal and member of Bengal legislative council 1860–71; chief comr. of British Burmah 1871–77; lieut. governor of Bengal 1877–82; a member of secretary of state’s council 1882 to death; C.S.I. 30 May 1874, K.C.S.I. 1878; the Eden canal which joins the Ganges and the Tistá is called after him. d. 31 Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 July 1887. bur. Armthorpe near Doncaster 14 July. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 70–75.

EDEN, Sir Charles. (youngest son of Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2 baronet 1766–1809). b. 3 July 1808; entered navy 27 Oct. 1821; captain 11 Aug. 1841; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; controller general of coastguard 5 Dec. 1855 to 1859; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to 1866; V.A. 6 April 1866, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 8 Feb. 1873. d. 9 Queen’s gate place, London 7 March 1878.

EDEN, Rev. Charles Page (3 son of Rev. Thomas Eden, C. of St. George’s, Bristol, who d. 22 July 1809 aged 57). b. Whitehall St. George’s near Bristol 13 March 1807; Bible clerk at Oriel coll. Ox. 25 Oct. 1825, fellow 1832–51, dean 1838; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; select preacher Oxford 1838 and 1853; V. of St. Mary’s, Oxford 1843–50; V. of Aberford near Leeds 1850 to death; proctor in convocation of province of York 1869, 1874 and 1880; preb. of York cath. 1870 to death; edited Gunning’s Paschal, or Lent fast 1845; Andrewes’s Pattern of catechistical doctrine 1846; Jeremy Taylor’s Works vols. i-viii; contributed to the ‘Tracts for the times’ No. 32, ‘On the standing ordinances of religion.’ d. Aberford vicarage 14 Dec. 1885. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) ii, 305–42.

EDEN, Emily (7 dau. of 1 Baron Auckland 1744–1814). b. Old palace yard, Westminster 3 March 1797; lived in India with her brother Lord Auckland 1835–42; author of Portraits of the people and princes of India 1844; The semi-detached house, edited by Lady Theresa Lewis 1859 anon.; The semi-attached couple, By E. E. 2 vols. 1860; Up the country, letters written from the upper provinces of India 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1872. d. Fountain house, 5 Upper Hill st. Richmond, Surrey 5 Aug. 1869. bur. in family vault at Beckenham, Kent.

EDEN, George Morton, b. 9 May 1806; ensign 84 foot 18 July 1822; lieut. col. 56 foot 20 May 1836 to 5 July 1839; captain Scots fusilier guards 5 July 1839 to 20 June 1854; col. 50 foot 20 April 1861 to death; L.G. 14 March 1862. d. Bern, Switzerland 11 Nov. 1862.

EDEN, Henry (4 son of Thomas Eden, deputy auditor of Greenwich hospital, who d. 1 May 1805). b. 9 Aug. 1797; entered navy 15 June 1811; captain 30 April 1827; private sec. to Lord. Auckland, first lord of the Admiralty 1846–48; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1848–53; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–54; a lord of the Admiralty 1855–58; admiral 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870. d. 45 Eaton sq. London 30 Jany. 1888.

EDEN, John (brother of preceding). b. 25 March 1789; cornet 22 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1807; major 15 foot 8 June 1826 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; col. 34 foot 28 Jany. 1860 to death; general 25 Aug. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839. d. Bath 6 Oct. 1874.

EDEN, Right Rev. Robert (brother of Sir Charles Eden 1808–78). b. Pall Mall, London 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1851; R. of Leigh, Essex 1837–51; bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness 1851 to death, consecrated at St. Paul’s, Edin. 9 March 1851; Primus of the Episcopal church of Scotland 5 July 1862 to death; founded cathedral of St. Andrew in Inverness, foundation stone laid 17 Oct. 1866; author of many addresses and sermons. d. Eden court, Inverness 26 Aug. 1886.

EDEN, William (2 son of Sir Robert Eden, governor of Maryland 1 bart. who d. 1786). Ensign 46 foot 26 Aug. 1786; assist. quartermaster general in England 25 Dec. 1797; lieut. col. 79 foot 15 Aug. 1798 to 11 Dec. 1806; lieut. col. 84 foot 11 Dec. 1806 to 1814; quartermaster general in Madras 20 June 1807: general 28 June 1838; granted reward for distinguished service 1 Dec. 1838. d. Ham, Surrey 24 May 1851 aged 83.

EDEN, William Hassall. b. 22 Feb. 1800; ensign 6 foot 31 March 1814; lieut. col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1839 to 16 Aug. 1839; lieut. col. 56 foot 16 Aug. 1839 to 3 Feb. 1854; commandant at Chatham 1 Sep. 1854 to 31 March 1858; col. 90 foot 24 Oct. 1862 to death; general 4 March 1872; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. 5 Royal crescent, Bath 10 Dec. 1832.

EDERSHEIM, Rev. Alfred. Educ. at Univ. of Vienna and Berlin; Ph.D. Kiel 1855; D.D. New coll. Edin.; hon. M.A. Ox. 1881, M.A. by Decree of convocation 1883; ordained deacon and priest 1875; C. of Christchurch, Hants. 1875–76; V. of Loders, Dorset 1876–83; Warburtonian lecturer at Lincoln’s Inn 1880–84; select preacher at Oxford 1884–85; author of History of the Jewish nation after the destruction of Jerusalem 1856; True to the end, a story of Scottish life 1871, new ed. 1878; Jewish social life in the days of Christ 1876; The Life and times of Jesus the Messiah 2 vols. 1883 and many other books, d. Mentone 16 March 1889 aged 64.

EDGAR, Edward Fisher. Made his first appearance on the stage at Victoria theatre, London, as a child in The Stranger; played in the provinces; appeared at Olympic theatre, as André in Lucille or the story of a heart 1852; lessee of Marylebone theatre; lessee with Richard Shepherd of Surrey theatre 1871–72; acted at Princess’s, Lyceum, Globe, Adelphi, Royalty and other theatres; played part of Hasting in She stoops to conquer at Imperial theatre, April to July 1879; sec. of Royal general theatrical fund 5 April 1876 to 1879. d. 2 Powis place, Queen sq. London 2 Sep. 1884.

EDGAR, Rev. John (son of Rev. Samuel Edgar pastor of Ballykine, Tipperary). b. Ballykine 13 June 1798; professor of theology in secession branch of Presbyterian church 1826–48; D.D. Hamilton college U.S.A. 1836; LLD. New York 1860; a great temperance advocate in Ireland 1829–41; a founder of Religious Book and Tract Society; moderator of general assembly of United church 1842; author of 42 pamphlets published under title of select works of John Edgar. d. Rathgar 26 Aug. 1866. W. D. Killen’s Memoir of John Edgar (1867), portrait.

EDGAR, John George (4 son of Rev. John Edgar, minister of Hutton, Berwickshire). b. 1834; passed some time in a Liverpool house; visited the West Indies on mercantile affairs; published Biography for boys; Foot-prints of famous men 1854 and about 20 books for the young; the first editor of Every Boy’s Magazine 1862. d. London 22 April 1864.

EDGELL, Harry (eld. son of Hippil Edgell of Beckington, Somerset). b. Beckington 30 Jany. 1767; ed. at Warminster gr. sch. and Royal college, Douai; admitted student at Gray’s Inn 1787; clerk of Assize of Norfolk circuit 1795 to death; clerk of the Errors in court of Exchequer; barrister G.I. 26 June 1811; clerk of the Errors in Court of Common Pleas 1837. d. 21 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14 May 1863. bur. Ruislip, Uxbridge 21 May.

EDGELL, Harry Edmund (only son of Henry Folkes Edgell 1767–1846, R.A.) b. 1809; entered navy 1823; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired V.A. 14 July 1871; C.B. 20 May 1859. d. Chichester 4 Feb. 1876.

EDGEWORTH, Michael Pakenham (youngest son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth the author 1744–1817). b. 24 May 1812; ed. at Charterhouse, Edinburgh and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1831; one of the 5 comrs. for settlement of the Punjaub 1850–59; collected 11 new species of plants in two hours at Aden 1846; author of Grammar of Kashmiri language 1841; Pollen with 446 figures 1877, new ed. 1879. d. in the island of Eigg, Inverness 30 July 1881.

EDISON, John Sibbald (son of J. Edison). b. 1803; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1831; author of Letters to the authors of the Plain tracts for critical times, By a Layman 1839; Remarks on Lord Brougham’s character of Pitt 1842; Legitimate system of national education 1855; Question of admissibility of Jews to Parliament 1859; Henry of Richmond, a drama 2 parts 1857–60; Commentary on Lord Brougham’s character of George iii, 1860; Jephtha, a dramatic poem 1863; Northumberland, a historical dramatic poem 1866; Divine right of rule 1869; Edwin, an historical poem 1873. d. Stock near Ingatestone, Essex 9 Sep. 1878.

EDKINS, Robert Pitt. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; second master of Kensington proprietary school; second master of city of London school 18 years; professor of geometry in Gresham college, city of London. d. 28 Belitha villas, Barnsbury, London 11 Nov. 1854 aged 49.

EDMESTON, James. b. 10 Sept. 1791; educ. Hackney; articled to an architect and surveyor 1807; architect 1816, removed to Homerton 1822; sec. of St. Barnabas, Homerton parochial schools; author of The search and other poems 1817; Anston Park, a tale 1821; The world of spirits; The cottage minstrel, 50 hymns 1821; Fifty hymns on missionary subjects 1822; One hundred Sunday School hymns 1822; Patmos a fragment and other poems 1824; The woman of Shunem, a sketch 1829; Hymns for the chamber of sickness 1844; Closet hymns and poems 1846; Sacred Poetry 1848. d. 15 Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton 7 Jany. 1867. Miller’s Singers and songs (1869) pp. 418–20.

EDMONDS, George (3 son of Richard Edmonds 1774–1860, town clerk of Marazion, Cornwall). b. Penzance 25 March 1805; admitted attorney 4 July 1827; practised in London 1829–38; author of The tuck net retucked, or porpoises instead of pilchards 1824; Complete ancient classical dictionary [1837]; Complete English grammar 1837; The tri-national grammar [1838]; The penny gospel 1843. d. Croydon 13 Sep. 1869.

Note.—He was while residing in London actively engaged in writing against the stamp duty on newspapers, and was so often employed by defendants in prosecutions for selling unstamped newspapers, that he was frequently called “The attorney general for unstamped newspapers.”

EDMONDS, George (son of Rev. Edward Edmonds, pastor of Baptist chapel in Bond st. Birmingham). b. Kenion st. Birmingham 1788; edited Edmonds’s Weekly Recorder 1819; imprisoned 12 months for taking part in a conspiracy to elect a member of parliament 1820–21; kept a school in Bond st. Birmingham 1823; clerk of the peace for Birmingham May 1839, solicitor there 1852; author of The philosophic alphabet with an explanation of its principles 1832; A universal alphabet, grammar and language comprising a scientific classification of the radical elements of discourse and illustrative translations from the Holy Scriptures and principal British classics [1856]. d. Abington Abbey Retreat near Northampton 1 July 1868. E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 140–54, portrait; R. K. Dent’s Old and new Birmingham (1880) 350–56, 398, 571, portrait; Notes and Queries 6 S. iv, 102, 210, 539 (1881); Aggravating Ladies, by Olphar Hamst (1880) p. 25.

EDMONDS, Richard (brother of George Edmonds 1805–69). b. Penzance 18 Sep. 1801; admitted attorney 4 June 1823; practised at Penzance 1823–25 and 1836–61, at Redruth 1825–36, at Plymouth 1861 to death; author of The Land’s End district, its antiquities, natural history, natural phenomena and scenery 1862, and of numerous papers in scientific and archæological transactions. d. Plymouth 12 March 1886. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 132–34 (1874), iii, 1169 (1882).

EDMONDS, Thomas Rowe (brother of the preceding). b. Penzance 20 June 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; actuary of the Legal and general life assurance society, London 1832–66; author of Practical, moral and political economy, or the government, religion and institutions most conducive to individual happiness and to national power 1828; Life tables founded on the discovery of a numerical law regulating the existence of every human being 1832; An inquiry into the principles of population 1832, anon. d. 72 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 6 March 1889. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii, 470–74 (1873).

EDMONDSON, George (son of John Edmondson of Lancaster, Quaker). b. Lancaster 8 Sep. 1798; ed. at Ackworth sch. Yorkshire; assisted Daniel Wheeler in superintending some agricultural institutions in Russia 1817–20; lived in Russia again 1823–30; opened a school at Blackburn 1830 and then one at Tulketh hall near Preston; kept an agricultural school at Queenwood Hall, Hants. 1847 to death; an early promoter of College of Preceptors 1846. d. 15 May 1863. bur. in burial ground of Society of Friends, Southampton. From the Lune to the Neva sixty years ago, By J. B. [Mrs. Davis Benson] 1879.

EDMONDSON, Thomas (brother of George Edmondson 1798–1863). b. Lancaster 30 June 1792; apprenticed to a cabinet maker; journeyman in firm of Gillow and Co. Lancaster; a cabinet maker at Carlisle, became bankrupt; railway booking clerk at Milton station (since called Brampton) 14 miles from Carlisle about 1836; invented the railway ticket system 1837; founded a ticket printing establishment at Manchester. d. Manchester 22 June 1851. J. B. Edmondson’s To whom are we indebted for the railway ticket system? 1878; Household Words vi, 31, (1852); I.L.N. vi, 117 (1845), view of ticket printing machinery.

EDMONDSTON, Laurence (son of Laurence Edmonston of Lerwick, Shetland, surgeon). b. Lerwick 1795; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; surgeon in Unst, most northerly of Shetland islands 1830 to death; a great naturalist, made many additions to list of British birds embracing the snowy owl, the Glaucus, Iceland and Ivory gulls; author of The claims of Shetland to a separate representation in parliament 1836 and other pamphlets. d. Baltasound, Shetland, March 1879. The home of a naturalist, In Memoriam, in Chambers’s Journal 11 Feb. 1882 pp. 89–92.

EDMONSTONE, Sir Archibald, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2 baronet 1764–1821). b. 32 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 March 1795; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1816; succeeded 1 April 1821; contested Stirlingshire 24 May 1821; author of Journey to two of the Oases of Upper Egypt 1822; Tragedies 1837; The Christian gentleman’s daily walk 1840, 3 ed. 1850 and 8 other books. d. 34 Wilton place, London 13 March 1871. Sir A. Edmonstone’s Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone (1875) 56–7.

EDMONSTONE, Sir George Frederick (4 son of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone 1765–1841, member of supreme council, Bengal). b. April 1813; entered Bengal civil service 1831; sec. to government of India in foreign, political and secret department 1856; lieut. governor of north western provinces of Bengal 20 Jany. 1859 to 7 March 1863; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1863. d. Effingham hill, Dorking 24 Sep. 1864.

EDMONSTONE, Sir William, 4 Baronet (brother of Sir Archibald Edmonstone 1795–1871). b. Hempton, Middlesex 29 Jany. 1810; entered navy Oct. 1823; inspecting commander in Coast Guard 1844–49; captain 20 Oct. 1853; A.D.C. to the Queen 1865–69; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1866–71; R.A. 3 July 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Jany. 1880; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1874–80; C.B. 24 March 1863. d. 11 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1888.

EDMUNDS, Charles. b. 1801; entered navy 19 Dec. 1813; captain 22 Nov. 1848; retired admiral 9 March 1878. d. 2 Park place villas, Maida hill west, London 1 Nov. 1879.

EDMUNDS, Leonard (eld. son of John Edmunds of Ambleside, Westmoreland, who d. 7 July 1826). Articled to Wm. Vizard, solicitor of 61 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; sec. to Comrs. of the Peace, Nov. 1830; purse bearer 1830; clerk of the patents 29 Aug. 1833 to July 1864; clerk of the Crown 1834–48; reading clerk of House of Lords 1848 to July 1864; clerk of comrs. of patents, Oct. 1852 to July 1864; claimed money from the Government for several years but was always unsuccessful; brought an action for libel against W. E. Gladstone the prime minister, June 1872 when he was nonsuited. d. 6 Culworth st. St. John’s Wood, London 19 June 1887 aged 85. Report on case of Mr. Edmunds in House of Commons Papers (1865) vols. ix and xliii; Law Reports vi Equity (1868) 381–96; The Edmunds scandal case 1870; T. A. Nash’s Life of Lord Westbury (1888) ii, 112–23.

EDWARD, Thomas (son of a hand-loom linen weaver). b. Gosport, Hants. 25 Dec. 1814; shoemaker at Banff 1835; collected nearly 2000 species of animals which he exhibited at Banff fair, May 1845 and 1846; discovered 20 new species of Sessile-eyed Crustacea; curator of museum of Banff Institution to 1882; A.L.S. 1866; collected nearly every plant in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; granted civil list pension of £50, 24 Jany. 1877. d. 27 April 1886. Life of a Scotch Naturalist by S. Smiles 1882; Stories of remarkable persons by W. Chambers (1878) 158–71; Graphic xv, 256 (1877), portrait.

EDWARDES, George Warren (3 son of 2 baron Kensington 1777–1852). b. 28 May 1802; ed. at Eton; auditor general St. Helena 1845–56; governor of Labuan 13 Feb. 1856 to July 1861. d. Chandos house 21 Feb. 1879.

EDWARDES, Sir Herbert Benjamin (2 son of Rev. Benjamin Edwardes, R. of Frodesley, Salop). b. Frodesley 12 Nov. 1819; ed. at King’s coll. London; ensign 1 Bengal fusiliers 1841; suppressed rebellion in Mooltan, June to July 1848; captain 1 European fusiliers 1 March 1850; comr. of Peshawur frontier, Oct. 1853 to 1859; comr. of Umballa 1862–65; left India 7 Feb. 1865; M.G. 22 Feb. 1868; C.B. 20 Oct. 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; author of A year on the Punjaub frontier in 1848–49, 2 vols. 1851. d. Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 23 Dec. 1868, mural tablet in Westminster Abbey. Memorials of the life and letters of Sir H. B. Edwardes by Emma Edwardes 2 vols. 1886, portrait; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii, 1–43 (1880); I.L.N. xiii, 213 (1848), portrait, xviii, 618 (1851), portrait.

EDWARDES, Richard (brother of G. W. Edwardes 1802–79). b. 25 Oct. 1807; entered diplomatic service 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine republic 10 Aug. 1865 to death but did not leave England. d. 22 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 March 1866.

EDWARDS, Rev. Bartholomew. b. 2 March 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; R. of Ashill, Norfolk 1813 to death; rural dean of Breckles and Thetford. d. Ashill rectory 21 Feb. 1889 said to be the oldest clergyman in England.

EDWARDS, Sir Bryan (son of Bryan Edwards). b. 1799; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; chief justice, vice chancellor and judge of vice admiralty court for Jamaica 1859–69 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 15 Nov. 1859. d. Eltham Pen, Spanish town, Jamaica 6 Dec. 1876.

EDWARDS, Charles. b. Norwich 17 March 1797; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1807; practised law in New York; counsel to British consulate, New York 25 years; author of The Juryman’s guide 1831; Parties to bills and other pleadings 1832; Feathers from my own wings 1832; The History and poetry of finger rings 1855; Pleasantries about courts and lawyers 1865 and other books. d. New York 30 May 1868.

EDWARDS, Clement Alexander. b. 12 Nov. 1812; ensign 31 foot 11 June 1829; lieut. col. 18 foot 9 March 1855, lieut. col. 49 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 4 Aug. 1863 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of recruits 6 July 1867 to 31 July 1873; col. 18 foot 25 March 1877 to death; general 20 May 1878; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Leeson house, Blackheath 29 July 1882.

EDWARDS, Edward. b. Corwen, Merionethshire 23 Nov. 1803; a draper at Bangor to 1839; carried on a foundry and iron works at Menai Straits several years from 1840; invented a dark-water chamber slope-back tank for marine aquaria, the principle of which was adopted here and in many of the continental and American zoological schools. d. 13 Aug. 1879.

EDWARDS, Edward. b. probably in London 1812; supernumerary assistant in printed book department British Museum 1839–1846; one of the 5 framers of the 91 rules for the printed catalogue; librarian of the Manchester Free library 1850–58, library was opened Sep. 1852; catalogued library of Queen’s college, Oxford 1870–80; author of Napoleon medals 1837; Memoirs of libraries 2 vols. 1859; Libraries and founders of libraries 1865; Lives of the founders of the British Museum 2 vols. 1870 and other books; found dead in his bed at St. Catherine’s Lodge, Niton, Isle of Wight 7 Feb. 1886. Book-Lore, April 1886 pp. 135–41.

EDWARDS, Edwin (son of Charles Edwards of Bridgham hall, Norfolk). b. Framlingham 6 Jany. 1823; admitted solicitor 1845; practised as a proctor first in Bennett’s hill, then in Knightrider st. London 1845–60; exhibited 54 pictures chiefly sea pieces at R.A. 1861–79, his etchings number about 371; author of Cases in prerogative court with respect to wills 1847; Treatise on jurisdiction of high court of Admiralty 1847; Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, succession to personal property 1853. d. 26 Golden sq. London 15 Sep. 1879.

EDWARDS, George Nelson (eld. son of George Edwards of Eye, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Eye 1830; ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., M.B. 1851, M.D. 1859; assistant phys. St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1860, phys. 23 Jany. 1867; lecturer on forensic medicine 1866; edited St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports vols. 1–3 (1865–7); author of The examination of the chest, in a series of tables 1862. d. 20 Finsbury sq. London 6 Dec. 1868.

EDWARDS, Henry. Entered navy 19 Nov. 1796; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. d. Huntingdon 22 Oct. 1864 aged 80.

EDWARDS, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Lees Edwards of Pye Nest near Halifax 1775–1848). b. Pye Nest 20 July 1812; M.P. for Halifax 1847–52, for Beverley 1857–69; contested Halifax 1852, 1853 and 1857; lieut. col. commandant 2 West Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1863 to death; created baronet 3 Aug. 1866; sheriff of Yorkshire 1871; C.B. 1881. d. Pye Nest 23 April 1886. I.L.N. xxiii, 203 (1853), portrait, lxxxvii, 37 (1885), portrait.

EDWARDS, Very Rev. Henry Thomas (son of Rev. William Edwards, V. of Llangollen, who d. 1868). b. Llangmawddwy, co. Merioneth 6 Sep. 1837; ed. at Westminster and Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1860; C. of Llangollen 1861; V. of Aberdare 1866–69; V. of Carnarvon 1869; dean of Bangor, March 1876 to death; author of The church of the Cymry, a letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 1870 and other small books; hanged himself at Ruabon vicarage 24 May 1884. bur. Glenadda cemetery, Bangor 28 May. Church portrait journal, Aug. 1879 pp. 71–3, portrait; C. Mackeson’s Church congress handbook (1877) 76–7; I.L.N. 31 May 1884 pp. 520, 523, portrait.