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EDES (or EEDES), RICHARD, of Sewell, Beds.; b.; adm.; QS in 1565; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1571, Westminster Student; BA 1574; MA 1578; BD 1584; DD 1589; Proctor 1583; ordained; Prebendary of Salisbury from 30 Jul 1584; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 10 Feb 1586; Prebendary of Hereford 17 Jan 1589/90, Treasurer from 22 Aug 1596; Dean of Worcester from 24 Jun 1597; Chaplain to Elizabeth I and James I; one of the translators of the Bible; reputed author of Julius Caesar, tragedy acted at Christ Church 1582; wrote English and Latin verses, and had reputation as a punster; m. Margaret, dau. of Right Rev. Herbert Westphaling DD, Bishop of Hereford; d. 19 Nov 1604. DNB.

EDES, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.

EDES, FRANCIS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, subscibed 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student; BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; MB and MD 1674; FRCP 16 Oct 1677; of St. Mary Woolnoth parish, London; d. 13 Sep 1683.

Edey, Anthony Russell, son of George Russell Edey LDS, of Bromley, Kent, and Audrey Vivian, d. of Alfred Blandford Hutchings of Edenbridge, Kent; b. 29 May 1913; adm. Jan. 1927 (B), (G) May 1927; left Apr. 1931; a stockbroker in Calcutta until 1940; Hodson's Horse, 31 Indian Armoured Divn, 1940-5 (Lieut.-Col. IA); military sec. to Lord Louis Mountbatten 1945-6; subsequently a stockbroker in Johannesburg; m. 6 Sept. 1941 Barbara Stephanie Anne, d. of Reginald Philip Rees-Jones of Machynlleth, Montgomery; d. 11 Oct. 1994.

EDGAR, ---; b.; in school lists 1785; left Whitsun 1785.

EDGAR, ALEXANDER, brother of John Foy Edgar (qv); bapt. 29 Aug 1768; adm. 15 Jan 1776; Commissary of Stores, Royal Engineers’ Department; d. St. Domingo, West Indies 22 Jun 1796, “aged 27 years” (M. I. St. Philip and St. Jacob, Bristol).

Edgar, Arthur Conway, brother of Stanley Clarence Edgar (q.v.); b. Sept. 21, 1892; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1905; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1911, matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1919; M.A. 1919; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. East Surrey Regt. Sept. 21, 1914; Lieut. June 1, 1916; served in France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany; M.C. Feb. 1, 1919; called to the bar at Lincolns Inn Nov. 17, 1924; m. April 10, 1917, Dorothy May Chilton, daughter of the Rev. Herbert Chilton Tompkins, Rector of East Woodhay, Berks; d. July 8, 1962.

EDGAR, JOHN FOY, son of Alexander Foy Edgar, Mayor of Bristol, and Ann Cann, dau. of John Foy, Alderman of Bristol; bapt. 9 Mar 1767; adm. 15 Jan 1776 (as John Foy (sic), also appearing as Foy in school lists to 1780); KS (aged 13) 1780; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1785, matr. 26 May 1785, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1785 - void 29 Jun 1797; BA 1789; MA 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Nov 1782; member, Common Council, Bristol 1796-1818, Sheriff of Bristol 1796-7, 1802-3, Sword Bearer from 1818; an early patron of Flaxman; FSA 1805; m. 10 Nov 1803 Harriet Ball (IGI); d. 5 Nov 1850.

EDGAR, R.; b.; adm. 15 Oct 1810; a “chum” of Lord William Pitt Lennox (qv), with whom he visited “Gentleman” Jackson’s sparring rooms in Old Bond Street, and was introduced to Lord Byron, who had a “set to” with Jackson (Lord W. P. Lennox, Drafts on my Memory, 1866, 46-7).

EDGAR, ROBERT CANN, brother of John Foy Edgar (qv); bapt. 11 Oct 1769; adm. 13 Jan 1777 (shown in previous edition as Cann, Edgar Robert); left Whitsun 1780; living in Bristol 1793; Lieut., 57th Foot 26 Sep 1795; d. in West Indies 7 Aug 1796, aged 26 (M. I. St. Philip and St. Jacob, Bristol).