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Owen Dudley Edwards (born 27 March 1938) is an
Irish
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historian
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and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the
University of Edinburgh
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,
Scotland
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.
He is the son of Professor
Robert Dudley Edwards
Robert Walter Dudley Edwards (4 June 1909 – 5 June 1988) was an Irish historian.
Biography
Robert Walter Dudley Edwards, known to his friends as Robin and his students as 'Dudley'"Dr Robin Dudley Edwards dies in Dublin", ''Irish Times'', 6 Jun ...
and brother to the Irish writer,
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Ruth Dudley Edwards (born 24 May 1944) is an Irish Unionist historian and writer, with published work in the fields of history, biography and crime fiction, and a number of awards won. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she has lived in England since 1965 ...
. He is the general editor of the Oxford
Sherlock Holmes
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series, and is a recognised expert on Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
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,
P. G. Wodehouse
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and
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
.
Dudley Edwards attended
Belvedere College
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History
Belvedere owes its origin ...
, Dublin,
University College Dublin
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, and
Johns Hopkins University
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in
Baltimore
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.
In 1966 he married Barbara Balbirnie Lee. They have three children.
See also
*
Selected bibliography
*''British Children's Fiction in the Second World War'' (2007)
*''Hare and Burke'' (1994) (play)
*''City of a Thousand Worlds: Edinburgh in Festival'' (1991)
*''Eamon de Valera'' (1988)
*''The Quest for Sherlock Holmes'' (1983)
*''Burke and Hare'' (1981; 2nd ed., 1993)
*''P. G. Wodehouse: A Critical and Historical Essay'' (1977)
*''The Sins of our Fathers'' (1970)
External links
ProfileBioat IMDB
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1938 births
Alumni of University College Dublin
20th-century Irish historians
21st-century Irish historians
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Living people
Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)
Writers from Dublin (city)
People educated at Belvedere College
Academics of the University of Edinburgh