EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS, third son of Rev. William Edwards, Vicar of Llangollen, Denbighshire; b. 6 Sep 1837; adm. as BB 14 Oct 1852; Christ Church, Oxford, servitor, matr. 15 Oct 1856; migrated to Jesus Coll. Oxford 1857, scholar; BA 1861; MA 1873; ordained deacon (St. Davids) 1861), priest (St. Asaph) 1861; Curate, Llangollen, Denbighshire 1861-6; Vicar of Aberdare, Glamorgan 1866-9; Vicar of Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire 9 Jan 1870-6; Proctor in Convocation for diocese of Bangor 1874-6; Dean of Bangor from Apr 1876; an able preacher in English and Welsh; made a vigorous protest against the tea-drinking habits of the society of his time; author, The Babel of Sects and the Unity of Pentecost, 1872, and other works; m. 1st, 20 Apr 1869 Mary, eldest dau. of David Davies, Maesyffynon, Aberdare, Glamorgan; m. 2nd, Anne Dora, dau. of John Jones, Tresanna, Anglesey; committed suicide 24 May 1884. DNB.
EDWARDS, HENRY WILSON, son of Rev. Allen Thomas Edwards, Vicar of St. Philip’s, Lambeth, Surrey, and Sarah Ann, dau. of Robert Salmon, Colchester, Essex; b. 22 Jul 1855; adm. (G) 12 Jun 1868; left Aug 1872; merchant’s clerk (1881 Census, as Henry Wilson Moore). [transfer to Moore, Henry Wilson ?]
EDWARDS, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 15) Dec 1747; left 1748.
EDWARDS, HERBERT, brother of Henry Wilson Edwards (qv); b. 10 Sep 1856; adm. (G) 12 Jun 1868; left Mar 1873; a clerk in London and County Bank to retirement 1917; d. 5 Feb 1923.
EDWARDS, HOWEL HOLLAND, son of Rev. Edward Edwards, Caerhun, Caernarvonshire; b. 6 Nov 1762; adm. from Ruthin Sch. 7 Apr 1777; KS 1778; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1782, matr. 30 May 1782, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1782 - void 10 Apr 1795, expiry year of grace as R. Waddesdon; BA 1786; MA 1789; ordained; Librarian and Chaplain to Duke of Marlborough; Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks. (second portion) 31 May 1794-99; Prebendary of St. Asaph 19 Apr 1799; Rector of Pennant, Denbighshire, and of Llanrwst, Denbighshire 6 Apr 1799; Prebendary of Westminster from 31 May 1803; Proctor in Convocation 31 Jan 1807; Rector of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 21 Apr 1807-32; m. 12 May 1798 Caroline, sister of Richard Palmer (qv); d. 29 Sep 1846. Buried in North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey.
Edwards, Hugh Robert Arthur, brother of Edward Cecil Theodore Edwards (qv); b. 17 Nov. 1906; adm. Sept. 1919 (A); left July 1925; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1925, rowed against Cambridge 1926 and 1930, BA; MA 1940; won (with L. Clive) the Pairs and rowed in the winning Four at the Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1932; rowed in winning Eights and Fours at the Empire Games, Canada, 1930, Grand Challenge Cup and Stewards Cup Henley 1930-1, Silver Goblets 1931-2; PO RAF Oct. 1931, FO Apr. 1932, Flt Lieut. Apr. 1936, Sqdn Ldr Dec. 1938, Wing Cdr Oct. 1946, Group Capt. July 1947; retd Nov. 1956; despatches Jan. 1941, June 1945, Jan. 1946; AFC Jan. 1943, DFC March 1944; coached Oxford in the Boat Race 1959-62; m. 16 June 1934 Michele Lydia Rosemary, d. of Maj. John Frederick Williams of Southsea, Hants; d. 21 Dec. 1972; DNB 1971-80, pp 278-9.
EDWARDS, HUGH, son of Rice Edwards, Brecon, and Ann, dau. of Meredith James, Town Clerk of Brecon; b. 26 Mar 1723; adm. (aged 16) Jun 1740 (Bourne's); left 1741; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 May 1741; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Jun 1740; d. 1749.
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, JASPER, fourth son of Richard Edwards, Henlow and Arlesey, Beds., and Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Manfield, Spaldwick, Hants.; b. c. 1618; at school in 1636 (Collect. Topog. et Gen., vi, 291-3); Clare Hall, Camb., adm. pens. 21 Jun 1637, matr. 1637; of Little Barford, Beds.; m. Joan Devenysh; buried Little Barford, Beds., 15 Oct 1680.
Edwards, John Fitch, son of John Edwards of Bayswater and Mabel, d. of Joseph Nanson of Llangollen, Denbighshire; b. 13 Aug. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left July 1926; asst works man. James Chesterton & Co., chainmakers, Sheffield; m. 21 Dec. 1935 Lilian Dorothy, d. of Thomas Martin Scully of Blackrock, Dublin; d. 18 Sept. 1939.