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Edwards (surname)
Edwards is a patronymic surname, which arose separately in England and Wales. It means "son of Edward". Edwards is the 14th most common surname in Wales and 21st most common in England. Within the United States, it was ranked as the 49th-most common surname as surveyed in 1990,U.S. Census Bureau; "Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census, (Table) Name Files dist.all.last"; published 9 May 1995; falling to 51st in 2014. Persons with surname Edwards *Edwards (baseball) A * Aaron Edwards (born 1984), Australian rules footballer * Aaron Edwards (football) (born 1969), Gibraltarian footballer * Ada Mae Edwards (1911–2004), Saint Kitts and Nevis politician * Alexander Edwards (1885–1918), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross * Amanda Edwards (living), American politician * Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist * Amelia Edwards (publisher), co-founder of Walker Books * Amy Edwards (living), Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardes
Edwardes is a family name of English origins. It is a variant of Edwards, and means "son of Edward". People with this surname include: * Cheryl Edwardes (born 1950), Australian retired politician * David Edwardes ( fl. 1532), English anatomist * Francis Edwardes (other), three Edwardes baronets and a Member of Parliament * George Edwardes (1855–1915), English theatre manager * Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1819–1868), English administrator, major-general and statesman * May de Montravel Edwardes (1887–1967), English painter * Michael Edwardes (1930–2019), British-South African business executive * Olga Edwardes (1917–2008) British-South African actress and artist * Richard Edwardes (1525–1566), English poet, playwright and composer; suspected of being a son of Henry VIII * Thomas Edwardes (other), three Edwardes baronets * William Edwardes (other), four Barons Kensington In the Alfred Hitchcock film '' Spellbound'', Gregory Peck's cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Edwards (footballer, Born 1971)
Andrew David Edwards (born 17 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer and manager, currently working as an assistant coach of the England youth teams with the Football Association. During his playing career he achieved six promotions and played for a number of clubs, including Southend United, Birmingham City, Peterborough United, Rushden & Diamonds, Grays Athletic and Aldershot Town. He was manager of Leyton Orient before joining the FA in 2017. Playing career Edwards started his career as a schoolboy at West Ham United before signing scholarship forms at Southend United in 1988. He made his debut as a 17-year-old against Wigan Athletic in the same year. After signing as a professional with the "Shrimpers" in 1989, Edwards enjoyed successive promotions to the second tier of English football and enjoyed five years at that level before being transferred to Birmingham City in July 1995 for a fee of £450,000. At Birmingham, Edwards was part of the side tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Burton Edwards
Austin Burton Edwards (15 August 1909 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian geologist, winner of the Clarke Medal in 1960. Family The son of William Burton Edwards (1856-1925), the Commissioner of the Federal Public Service, and his second wife, Mabel Edwards (1871-1939), née Mueller, Austin Burton Edwards was born in Caulfield on 15 August 1909. He married Eileen Mary McDonnell (1913-1985), in Adelaide, on 22 April 1935.Vallance, 1996. They had four children. Caulfield Grammar School He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School from 1916 to 1927—representing the school in both swimming and athletics over a number of years—where he was both School Captain and ''Dux'' of School in 1926. He was a member of the Caulfield Grammar School Council for 12 years, from 1949 until his death in 1960. Sportsman Football On 17 April 1931 he was awarded a "half-blue" for football by the University of Melbourne. In June 1931, while playing with Old Caulfield Grammarians in C-Section o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Edwards
Austin Edwards (born August 27, 1997) is an American football defensive end for the Houston Roughnecks of the XFL. He was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2020 following his college football career with the Ferris State Bulldogs, where he was 1st Team All-American and won the Gene Upshaw Award for Best D2 Defensive Lineman of The Year of 2019. He played in the 2019 East/West Shriners Game in St. Petersburg, FL where he drew the attention of the Kansas City Chiefs with several outstanding plays. Professional career Atlanta Falcons Edwards signed with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent following the 2020 NFL Draft on April 27, 2020. He was waived during final roster cuts on September 5, and signed to the team's practice squad the next day. He was released on September 25, and re-signed to the practice squad on September 29. He was elevated to the active roster on October 24 for the team's week 7 game against the Detroit Lions, and reverted to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Edwards
Archie L. Edwards (September 4, 1918 – June 18, 1998) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning several decades worked with Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and John Jackson. His best-known recordings are "Saturday Night Hop", "The Road Is Rough and Rocky", and "I Called My Baby Long Distance". In the late 1950s he owned a barbershop that attracted blues musicians who helped to start his musical career. Describing his musical style, Edwards said, "I play what they call the old Piedmont style, but I call it East Virginia blues 'cause that's where I learned it". Biography Edwards was born on a farm near Union Hall, Virginia. His early work left some time to engage with local musicians, but he had to share his first guitar with his two brothers. Inspired by recordings of Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Lemon Jefferson, he played locally and found employment in a sawmill. In 1937, he relocated to New Jersey, where he worked as a chauffeur, He late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Edwards
Antony Edwards (1 August 1910 – 23 August 1978) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Delhi and Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI. See also * List of Delhi cricketers This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for Delhi cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons. Players in bold have ... References External links * 1910 births 1978 deaths English cricketers Delhi cricketers Place of birth missing {{England-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Edwards (rower)
Anthony John Edwards (born 22 December 1972 in Ballarat, Victoria) is an Australian former lightweight rower. He is a five time Olympian, triple Olympic medallist, a world champion and a six-time Australian national champion. He represented Australia at the premier world regattas consistently over a twenty-year period from 1993 to 2012. Club and state rowing Edwards' senior rowing was done from the Ballarat City Rowing Club where he moved to take up sculling in 1990. He previously rowed at St. Patrick's College, Ballarat, earlier in the same year and stroked the Firsts crew to victory in the Ballarat Head of the Lake Regatta. That victory broke the 22-year drought for the school which had not won the premier event of Head of the Lake Regatta for that long. He joined Wendouree-Ballarat Club Rowing Club in 1999 moving to four-oared crews. Later in his career he relocated to Tasmania in 2006 where he rowed from the New Norfolk Rowing Club in Hobart. Edwards was first selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Edwards (basketball)
Anthony DeVante Edwards (born August 5, 2001), nicknamed "Ant-Man", is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A shooting guard, he played college basketball for the Georgia Bulldogs. Edwards finished his high school career at Holy Spirit Preparatory School in his hometown of Atlanta, where he was rated a consensus five-star recruit and one of the best players in the 2019 class by major recruiting services. As a senior, he earned McDonald's All-American and ''USA Today'' All-USA first team honors. He committed to play college basketball for Georgia, becoming the highest rated recruit to do so, and was named SEC Freshman of the Year after his freshman season with the team. He was selected with the first overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2020 NBA Draft. Early life Edwards spent his early life in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was three years old, he was given the nickname "Ant-Man" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Edwards (American Football)
Anthony Quinn Edwards (born May 26, 1966) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals. He played college football at New Mexico Highlands University New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) is a public university in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Founded in 1893, it has satellite campuses in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Farmington and Roswell. NMHU has an average annual enrollment of approximate .... References 1966 births Living people People from Casa Grande, Arizona Sportspeople from Pinal County, Arizona American football wide receivers New Mexico Highlands Cowboys football players Philadelphia Eagles players Phoenix Cardinals players Arizona Cardinals players {{widereceiver-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Edwards (actor)
Anthony Charles Edwards (born July 19, 1962) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight seasons of '' ER'', for which he received a Golden Globe award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. He has appeared in various films and television series, including '' Top Gun'', ''Zodiac'', '' Gotcha!'', ''Miracle Mile'', ''Revenge of the Nerds'', '' Planes'', '' Northern Exposure'' and ''Designated Survivor''. Early life Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Erika Kem Edwards Plack (née Weber), an artist/landscape painter, and Peter Edwards, an architect to whom he was one of five children His maternal grandfather was designer Kem Weber. He is partly of German and Irish descent. He graduated from San Marcos High School in 1980. Edwards was encouraged by his parents to attend college before pursuing his interest in acting, which grew from the area's th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew David Edwards
Andrew David Edwards (born March 6, 1958) is an American serial killer. A jobless drifter, Edwards murdered four fellow itinerants across three states between 1987 and 1992 in alcohol-induced rages, and attempted to murder a fifth in 1993. Following his last attack, he was arrested and subsequently confessed to the murders, receiving a sentence of life imprisonment for his crimes. Early life Little is known about Edwards' upbringing. A native of Sunnyvale, California, he attended the Fremont High School and later the Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. He had a girlfriend and held a job as a bricklayer, but was an alcoholic who had been in and out of treatment centers since the age of 19. In 1985, he abandoned his girlfriend and his job, deciding to live a transient lifestyle. During this time, he began to kill his fellow drinking companions. Murders On October 5, 1987, Edwards was drinking with 38-year-old John Harold Schiermeister, a transient from Roseburg, Oregon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Edwards (cricketer)
Andrew Nicholas Edwards (born 12 November 1978) is a former English cricketer. Edwards was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Delft, Netherlands. Edwards made his debut in List A cricket for the Gloucestershire Cricket Board against the Yorkshire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. From 1999 to 2001, he represented the Board in 2 further List A matches. These came against the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board and the Yorkshire Cricket Board, both in the 2000 NatWest Trophy. In 1999, Edwards also made his debut for Herefordshire in the Minor Counties Championship against Devon. In 2001, he played 3 further Championship matches for the county, the last of which came against Berkshire. In 2001, he played a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match for Herefordshire against the Warwickshire Cricket Board. Edwards also represented the county in List A cricket, making his debut for the county in that format against the Gloucestershire Cricket Boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |