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Edward Edwards (economist)
Edward Edwards may refer to: * Edward Edwards (actor) (living), American television and film actor * Edward Edwards (librarian) (1812–1886), British librarian, library historian, and biographer *Edward Edwards (musician) (1816–1897), Welsh musician and composer *Edward Edwards (painter) (1738–1806), English painter *Edward Edwards (priest) (c. 1726–1783), Welsh scholar and clergyman *Edward Edwards (Royal Navy officer) (1742–1815), British naval officer *Edward Edwards (serial killer) (1933–2011), convicted American serial killer *Edward Edwards (zoologist) (1803–1879), Welsh marine zoologist * Edward I. Edwards (1863–1931), American politician * Edward Livingston Edwards (1812–1894), Missouri lawyer, state legislator, journalist, and judge See also *Eddie Edwards (other) *Edwin Edwards (other) *List of people with reduplicated names Reduplication is a process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Alternative terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (actor)
Edward Edwards is an American film and television actor. Edwards attended and graduated at Sunset High School in Dallas, Texas. He had minor roles in over fifty different television shows since his acting debut in 1974, in shows such as ''The Dukes of Hazzard'',''The Ropers'',''Family Ties'', '' ALF'', ''Fresh Prince Of Bel Air'', ''House'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' 24'', '' Commander in Chief'', ''Boston Legal'', ''Without a Trace'', ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Monk'', ''Criminal Minds'', ''Frasier'' and '' JAG''. Edwards has also appeared in minor roles in films such as ''Gang Related'' (1997), '' Bounce'' (2000) and '' Duplex'' (2003). Filmography See also *List of people with reduplicated names Reduplication is a process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Alternative terms include cloning, doubling, duplication, and repetition. Reduplication has a grammatical function in some languages, such as plurality . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (librarian)
Edward Edwards (1812–1886) was a British librarian, library historian, and biographer. He was an important figure in the establishment of free libraries in the United Kingdom. He died and is buried in Niton on the Isle of Wight. Early life and work Edwards was born in Stepney (London) on 14 December 1812. His father, Anthony Turner Edwards, was a builder and apprenticed his son to this trade at the age of fourteen. There is no record of Edwards' education and early employments. However, it is known that he attended the King's Weigh House chapel, where he was influenced by Rev. Thomas Binney. Also, Edwards received private lessons from Edwin Abbott and was--as was his teacher--a member of a German reading circle of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution. In the 1830s, Edwards developed interests in education, library science, and industrial art. The wide range of these pursuits may be traced to the frequency of Edwards's presence at functions of the Society of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (musician)
Edward Edwards (1816 – 16 September 1897), also known by his bardic name of "Pencerdd Ceredigion", was a Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ... musician and composer. He was born in Aberystwyth and became a regular churchgoer at Llanbadarn Fawr, joining the choir. When the family moved to Capel Dewi, he was appointed precentor of the local chapel. Later he returned to Aberystwyth, where he worked as a shoemaker. He formed a successful choir at the Tabernacle chapel after returning to Aberystwyth. He died in 1897 and was buried at Aberystwyth. SourcesWelsh Biography Online {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Edward 1816 births 1897 deaths People from Aberystwyth Welsh composers Welsh male composers 19th-century British composers 19th-century British male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (painter)
Edward Edwards (7 March 1738 – 19 December 1806) was an English painter and etcher. He held the post of Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, and compiled a book entitled ''Anecdotes of Painters'' (1808). Life Edwards, the elder son of a chairmaker and carver, who had come from Shrewsbury, and settled in London, was born in London 7 March 1738. He was a weakly child, with distorted limbs, and remained of very small size all his life. At an early age he went to a French Protestant school, but at fifteen was removed in order to work at his father's business. Until the age of 18 he worked with a Mr. William Hallett, cabinet maker, upholsterer, at the corner of St. Martin's Lane and Long Acre, drawing patterns for furniture. His father then sent him to a drawing school, and in 1759 he was admitted as a student into the Duke of Richmond's gallery. He lost his father in 1760, when the support of his mother and sister devolved upon him. Edwards took lodgings in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (priest)
Edward Edwards (c. 1726 – 2 September 1783) was a Welsh scholar and clergyman. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for over thirty-five years, and was vice-principal for more than twenty years. His particular scholastic interest was in the works of the Greek philosopher Xenophon. Life Edwards was the son of Lewis Edwards and was born in Talgarth in the parish of Tywyn, Merionethshire, in North Wales. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated in May 1743 – he was said to be 17 years old at that time. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in January 1747 and was elected to a fellowship of the college in the same year. He retained his fellowship until 1783, and also served as vice-principal of the college from 1762 until 1783 (beginning when Thomas Pardo was principal, continuing in post throughout the principalship of Humphrey Owen and into the time of Joseph Hoare). He was also awarded the higher degrees of Bachelor of Divinity (1756) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Edward Edwards (1741–1815) was a British naval officer best known as the captain of HMS ''Pandora'', the frigate which the Admiralty sent to the South Pacific in pursuit of the ''Bounty'' mutineers. Biography Early years The fifth of six children, Edward Edwards was born in Water Newton, a village near Peterborough, to Richard Edwards of Water Newton and Mary Fuller of Caldicot. He was born in 1742 and christened in St Remegius' Church, Water Newton. He never married. On 7 September 1759, age 17, he was commissioned as a lieutenant. To qualify for this commission he would have been required, in addition to passing a lieutenant's exam, to produce evidence of at least six years of sea time. No documents have been located to date which would establish exactly when, and under whose patronage, he started his naval career. It is likely he first went to sea as a captain's servant when about 10 years old and subsequently completed at least part of the required sea time as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (serial Killer)
Edward Wayne Edwards (June 14, 1933 – April 7, 2011) was an American serial killer. Edwards escaped from jail in Akron, Ohio, in 1955 and fled across the country, holding up gas stations. By 1961, he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Edwards was captured and arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 1962. After he was granted parole in 1967, Edwards murdered at least five people between 1977 and 1996, and he is suspected of several additional killings. Background Edwards was born in Akron, Ohio in 1933. In his autobiography Edwards wrote that he grew up in an orphanage, and that he was abused both physically and emotionally by nuns there. Edwards was allowed out of juvenile detention to join the U.S. Marines, but he eventually went and was dishonorably discharged. He traveled frequently during his 20s and 30s, working assorted jobs such as working as a ship docker, vacuum cleaner retailer and handyman. In 1955, Edwards escaped from a jail in Akron and dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (zoologist)
Edward Edwards (23 November 1803 – 13 August 1879) was a Welsh marine zoologist. Edwards was born on 23 November 1803, at Corwen, Merionethshire, where he received his education. He started in life as a draper at Bangor, Carnarvonshire, which business he carried on until 1839, when he retired from it. In the following year he established a foundry and ironworks at Menai Bridge Menai Bridge ( cy, Porthaethwy; usually referred to colloquially as Y Borth) is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales. It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thom ..., which he appears to have carried on for several years with much success. In 1864, being interested in observing the forms of marine life in the waters of the Menai Strait he began to study the habits and characters of the fish in their native element. He was induced to attempt an artificial arrangement for preserving the fish in health in confinement, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward I
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vassal of the French king. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly referred to as the Lord Edward. The eldest son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included a rebellion by the English barons. In 1259, he briefly sided with a baronial reform movement, supporting the Provisions of Oxford. After reconciliation with his father, however, he remained loyal throughout the subsequent armed conflict, known as the Second Barons' War. After the Battle of Lewes, Edward was held hostage by the rebellious barons, but escaped after a few months and defeated the baronial leader Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265. Within two years the rebellion w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Livingston Edwards
Edward Livingston Edwards (March 17, 1812 – September 1, 1894) was a Missouri lawyer, state legislator, journalist, and judge. Early life, education, and career Born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, Edwards grew up on a farm near Murfreesboro, attending a country school in the winter season.''The Bench and Bar of St. Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City, and Other Missouri Cities'' (1884), p. 10. At the age of 19, he was hired to teach in a new institution started in Williamson county, but his mind was on the West, and in the autumn of 1831 he resigned and moved to Jefferson City, Missouri. Here he read law under the supervision of his older brother, John Cummins Edwards, then secretary of state, and afterward governor of Missouri. In February 1835, Edwards he was licensed to practice, and was elected clerk of the circuit court and county court, the offices then having just become elective. In 1837 he was elected brigadier general of the first brigade, sixth division of the Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Edwards (other)
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Eddie Edwards may refer to: *Eddie Edwards (American football) (born 1954), American football player * Eddie Edwards (musician) (1899–1963), American jazz trombonist *Eddie Edwards (tennis) (born 1956), South African tennis player *"Eddie the Eagle" Edwards (born 1963), real name Michael Edwards, British ski jumper *Eddie Edwards (wrestler) (born 1983), American professional wrestler *Eddie Edwards (born 1968), American civil servant; see 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire#eddie_edwards See also * Ed Edwards, advertising executive and filmmaker * Edward Edwards (other) * Edwin Edwards (other) *List of people with reduplicated names Reduplication is a process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Alternative terms include cloning, doubling, duplication, and repetition. Reduplication has a grammatical function in some languages, such as plurality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Edwards (other)
Edwin Edwards (1927–2021) was the 50th governor of Louisiana. Edwin Edwards may also refer to: * Edwin Edwards (artist) (1823–1879), British painter, engraver and lawyer * Edwin Edwards (New Zealand politician) (1862–1909), English-born New Zealand businessman and local politician * Edwin Edwards (organist) (1830–1907), British academic and organist * Eddie Edwards (musician) (1891–1963, Edwin Branford Edwards), American jazz trombonist See also *Eddie Edwards (other) Eddie Edwards may refer to: *Eddie Edwards (American football) (born 1954), American football player * Eddie Edwards (musician) (1899–1963), American jazz trombonist *Eddie Edwards (tennis) (born 1956), South African tennis player *"Eddie the Eagl ... * Edward Edwards (other) {{hndis, Edwards, Edwin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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