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.