Edward (II)
PRINCE OF WALES, the surnamed Black Prince from the color of his armor, was the eldest son of Edward III.; was born in 1330. In 1345 he accompanied his father in his expedition to France, and displayed unusual heroism at the battle of Crécy: In 1356 he gained the battle of Poitiers, and brought the French king and his son prisoners to England. He died before his father, in 1376, leaving two sons, the elder of whom, Richard, was the successor of Edward III.
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Edward the Elder
(870-925), king of England. He succeeded his father, Alfred the Great, in 901. Edward continued the work of unifying the kingdom, which had been carried on so well by his distinguished father. He annexed Mercia. He repelled the attacks of foreign Danes. He erected strong fortifications on the Welsh and Northumbrian frontiers. Edward the Martyr (963-979), king of England. He succeeded his father Edgar in 975. He was the oldest son and was entitled to the throne, but his succession was opposed by a party that claimed that Edward was too much under the influence of the monks. In fact, his coronation was brought about through the influence of Dunstan. Edward ruled but four years. While hunting in Dorsetshire he called at Corfe Castle, the home of his stepmother Elfrida. As he sat on his horse drinking a glass of liquor, one of Elfrida's servants stabbed him in the back. He dug his spurs into his horse, but he became so faint with loss of blood as to lose his seat. He was found dragging in the stirrup,--dead. The manner and cause of his death gained him the name of "The Martyr."
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Edwards
GEORGE WHARTON, American artist an , born in Conn. He received an academic edu- Fairhaven, cation in Antwerp and Paris. From 1898 to 1903 he was director of the art department of Collier's " Weekly," and from 1904 to 1912 was manager of the art department of the American Bank Note Company . He received medals for excellence of work in drawing and painting at many expositions. painted the He mural decoration "Henrick Hudson," at the United States Military Academy. He wrote fiction as well as books on art sub subjects. These include "Thumbnail Sketches " (1886); "Holland of Today" (1909 Flemish Towns" (1911); "The Forest of ); "Some Old Arden" (1914); " Alsace-Lorraine" (1918); and "Holland of Today" 1919). (
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Edwards (JONATHAN an Ameritheologian)
JONATHAN, an Ameritheologian; can Conn., Oct. 5, 1703. He was the son born in East Windsor, of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational JONATHAN EDWARDS minister, and was himself minister at Northampton , Mass., from 1727 to 1750. From 1751 to 1758 he was an Indian missionary, and at the time of his death was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). His works are the recognized zed exponents of essential Calvinism next to those of its founder, and rank high in the theological metaphysic of all time. They include among others: "An Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will Which Is Supposed to Be Essential to Moral Agency" (1754); "The Great Christian Doctrine of the Original Sin Defended" (1757?) and "A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World" (1789). He died in Princeton, N. J., March 22, 1758.
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Edwards, Jonathan
Jonathan (1703-1758), a celebrated New England divine and theologian. Born in Windsor, Connecticut, October 5, 1703. Died Princeton, New Jersey , March 22, 1758. Graduated at Yale, 1717. After a short term as a tutor in that institution he became pastor at Northampton, where he remained twenty-three years, participating in revival work. In 1750 he was dismissed by the Northampton church and became a missionary among the Massachusetts Indians. In 1758 he was elected president of Princeton College, and, as stated, died the same year. Edwards had a powerful intellect. He was an impressive preacher, somber and even gloomy in his religious opinions and sentiments, but earnest, unaffected, and nobly conscientious. Of many theological works his Freedom of the Will and Original Sin are most noted. Edwards' life and work were so colored by a somber theology that posterity has not done credit to one of the sweetest spirits of the age. Believing, as he did, that his fellowmen were tottering on the brink of the bottomless pit, no trivial matters were worthy of the attention of an immortal soul; and yet we find in him distinct traces of the future Emerson and his school of calm thinkers. "True religion," said he, "in a great measure consists in holy affections. A love of divine things for the beauty and sweetness of their moral excellency is the spring of all holy affection." See Dwight ; Burr
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Edwardsville
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, and is entirely a residential suburb of Wilkes-Barre. Pop. (1910) 8,407; (1920) 9,027.
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Edwardsville
a city of Illinois, It is on the county-seat of Madison co. the Wabash, the Illinois Traction, the Toledo, St. Louis and Western, the Litchfield and Madison, and the St. Louis, Troy and Eastern railroads. The city is the center of an agricultural and coal mining region, and has manufactures of tools, plumbing supplies, brass finishings, radiators, buggies, etc. There is a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,014; (1920) 5,336.
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Edwin
King of Northumbria, was the son of Ælla, King of Deira, who died in 588. His father died when he was but 3 years old, whereupon Æthelric, King of Bernicia, seized his territories. The child was carried into north Wales, and there brought up. At length he found refuge with Rædwald, King of East Anglia, who took up arms on his behalf against Æthelfrith, the son of his oppressor, and defeated him in a great battle, in which the usurper fell (617). Edwin now obtained his father's kingdom of Deira, and ere long overran Bernicia, thus bringing under his rule a united Northumbria. He died in 634.
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Edwy
King of England, son of Edmund I., 'succeed I., succeeded his uncle Edred in 955. Taking part with the secular clergy against the monks, he incurred the confirmed enmity of the latter. The papal party, headed by Dunstan, was strong enough to excite a rebellion, by which Edwy was driven from the throne to make way for his brother Edgar. He died in 959, being probably not more than 18 or 19 years old.
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