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.