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EDWARDS, JAMES GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. James Edwards, Rector of Newington, Oxfordshire; b. 25 Mar 1836; adm. 19 Jan 1849 (Rigaud's); QS 1850; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1854, matr. 8 Jun 1854, Westminster Student to 1868; BA 1858; MA 1861; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Apr 1856, called to bar 26 Jan 1860; Oxford Circuit; JP (1896) Hampshire; author, The Progress of Religious Thought in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1905; m. 19 May 1868 Ellen Hester, third dau. of Rev. James Clutterbuck, Vicar of Long Wittenham, Berks.; d. 4 Mar 1903.

EDWARDS, JOHN, second son of John Edwards, Stansty, Wrexham, Denbighshire, and Janet, dau. of Edward Jones ab John, Fron Deg, Denbighshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1629, matr. 26 Oct 1632, aged 20, Westminster Student, subsequently Physic Faculty Student; BA 1633; MB; physician to Charles I; when ordered to appear before the Parliamentary Visitors 3 May 1648, Edwards, with Richard Howe (qv), Thomas Terrent (qv) and five others, “rose up from the table where they sate at dinner and contemptuously departed, after some scornefull words spoken, and refused to appeare” (Burrows, 33 : there is however no record of his expulsion); d. 14 Jul 1650, aged 40 (sic) (Hearne, viii, 342).

EDWARDS, JOHN, second son of Sir Edward Edwards, Heath, Shropshire; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, matr. 17 Dec 1685, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1685 - void 1695; BA 1689; MA 1692; BD and DD 1720; ordained; Rector of Clungunford, Shropshire; d. before 9 Mar 1725/6 (will proved PCC 6 Jul 1725).

EDWARDS, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1679; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, matr. 1682/3, scholar 9 May 1683; adm. Inner Temple 24 Jan 1684/5. [Perhaps second son of John Edwards, Heath House, Shropshire; ? Bencher, Inner Temple 1712; ? d. 15 Jan 1747. ]

EDWARDS, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Edwards, London; b.; adm.; probably Edwards in under school lists 1715, 1716; KS (aged 15) 1718; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1722, adm. pens. 25 May 1722, scholar 3 May 1723; 10th in “ordo” 1725/6; BA 1725/6; MA 1729. [note wills of Rev. Samuel Edwards, Water Newton, Hunts., proved PCC 21 Jan 1745, and Rev. Samuel Edwards, Bozeat, Northants, proved PCC 2 Mar 1767 (father of William Gutteridge Edwards (qv)]

EDWARDS, WILLIAM, of Middlesex, described as “cler. fil. ”; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1620, matr. 16 Nov 1621, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1631; BA 1624; MA 1627.

EGERTON, RICHARD, eldest son of Maj. -Gen. Caledon Richard Egerton, Col. 89th Foot, and Margaret, third dau. of Alexander Cumming, St. Vincent, West Indies; b. 10 Jul 1844; adm. 3 Jun 1858; QS May 1860; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1863, matr. 27 May 1863; BA 1867; adm. Middle Temple 26 Apr 1866, called to bar 17 Nov 1869; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; Resident Magistrate, St. Thomas in the East, Jamaica 1892; m. 21 Jun 1892 Caroline Mary, elder dau. of Rev. David Phillips Lewis, Rector of Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire; d. at Mount Bay, Jamaica 6 Oct 1901.

EGERTON, SIR (WALTER) RALEIGH GILBERT, third son of Sir Robert Eyles Egerton KCSI CIE, Bengal Civil Service, Lieut. -Gov. Punjab, and his first wife Mary Warren, dau. of William Hickey, Calcutta, and niece of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Bart., GCB, Bengal Army (previously EICS Bengal); b. 25 Sep 1860; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 4 Jun 1874; QS 1875; left May 1877; RMC Sandhurst 1878-9; 2nd Lieut., 17th Foot 13 Aug 1879; Lieut., Leicestershire Regt. 19 Feb 1881; Bengal Staff Corps 1 Nov 1881; Capt., Indian Staff Corps 13 Aug 1890; Brevet Maj., 18 Nov 1896; Indian Army 13 Aug 1899; Lieut. -Col., Indian Army 13 Aug 1905; Col., 6 Jun 1907; temp. Brig. -Gen., 14 Nov 1911 - 13 Nov 1914; Brigade Commander, Ferozepore 14 Nov 1911 - 14 Sep 1914 and on Western Front in France 15 Sep 1914 - 16 Nov 1916; Maj. -Gen., 14 Nov 1914; Lieut. -Gen., 27 Aug 1917; retired 1 Apr 1920; ADC to Lieut. -Gov. Punjab 1897-9; Assistant Adjutant-Gen., India 1900-3; served in Hazara expedition 1888, Isazai expedition 1892, Waziristan 1894-5, Chitral 1895, Dongola expedition 1896, Waziristan 1901-2. and in Great War in France and Mesopotamia; mentioned in despatches LG 8 Aug 1902, 17 Feb 1915, 1 Jan 1916, 19 Oct 1916, 15 Aug 1917, 27 Aug 1918, 1 Feb and 5 Jun 1919; CB 14 Jun 1912; KCB 3 Jun 1916; KCIE 25 Aug 1917; Order of Karageorge (Serbia), 2nd cl. with swords 1916; Busby Trustee from May 1927; m. 1st, 22 Aug 1894 Bridget Watson, eldest dau. of Watson Askew-Robertson, Pallinsburn House, Northumberland; m. 2nd, 21 Mar 1903 Maude Helen, only dau. of Sir George Rendlesham Prescott, Bart.; d. 2 May 1931.

Eggar, Cedric Richard Hastings, brother of Ralph Alfred James Eggar (qv); b. 1 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (KS); left July 1935; Baring Bros Ltd; RASC 1940-6 (Maj.), despatches (NW Europe) May 1945 and Apr. 1946; gen. man. Barings Bank Ltd, retd 1975; m. 6 Dec. 1941 Elizabeth Audrey, d. of Percy Bramble Roberts of Eltham, Middx; d. 9 Nov. 1988.

EGLESFELD, RICHARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments).