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 EDWAKDS elected president of Union college, but only lived two years after his inauguration. His complete works, edited with a memoir by his grandson, the Eev. Tryon Edwards, D. D., were published in 2 vols. at And over in 1842. EDWARDS, Justin, an American clergyman, born in "Westhampton, Mass., April 25, 1787, died at Virginia Springs, July 23, 1853. He graduated at Williams college in 1810, settled in the ministry at Andover in 1812, removed to the Salem street church, Boston, in 1828, and in 1829 resigned this charge to become secretary of the American temperance society, in the service of which he was engaged for seven years, delivering lectures and addresses, and preparing the " Temperance Documents." After this, he was for six years president of the Andover theological seminary. He wrote the "Sabbath Manual," and spent four years in preparing a brief commentary on all the Few and part of the Old Testament, for the American tract society, before finishing which he died. He was the author of several valu- able tracts, some of which have had a wide circulation. Of his " Temperance Manual " and of the different parts of his " Sabbath Manual" many hundred thousand copies have been printed. A memoir of his life and labors was published by the American tract society in 1855. EDWARDS, Milne. See MILNE-EDWABDS. EDWARDS, Richard, an English dramatist, born in Somersetshire in 1523, died about 1566. He was educated at Corpus Christi college, Oxford. His " Damon and Pythias " was the first English tragedy on a classical subject, and was acted before the queen at Oxford about 1566. All his other dramas are lost. He wrote several minor poems, of which Amantium Irce has been often reprinted. EDWARDS, Tryon, an American clergyman and author, grandson of the younger Jonathan Edwards, born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 7, 1809. He graduated at Yale college in 1828, studied law in New York and theology at Princeton, and settled in the ministry at Roch- ester, N. Y., in 1834. He removed in 1845 to New London, Conn. In 1832 a prize tract on Sabbath schools appeared from his pen, and he has from that time contributed constantly to the religious press. Among his publications are an address delivered at Williams college in 1841, entitled "Christianity a Philosophy of Principles ;" a memoir of the younger Presi- dent Edwards, published with his complete works (1842); " Self- Cultivation " (1843); and a memoir of Dr. Bellamy, published with his complete works (1850). He has edited a volume entitled " Charity and its Fruits," from the MSS. of the elder President Edwards, and several col- lections designed especially for domestic culture, as " Select Poetry for Children and Youth " (1851), "Jewels for the Household" (1852), " The World's Laconics " (1852), and " Won- ders of the World" (1855). He was long editor of the " Family Christian Almanac." EDWY 445 EDWIN, king of Northumbria, born about 586, ascended the throne in 617, and died in 633. He was an infant when at the death of his father, ^Ella, king of Deira, the throne was usurped by his brother-in-law, Ethelfrid, king of Bernicia, who in 593 united the two kingdoms under the name of Northumbria. Edwin was placed by his friends under the protection of Cadvan of North Wales. The British prince was assailed by the Northum- brian, and the two armies met in the vicinity of Chester. Victory decided for Ethelfrid ; a body of monks who had stationed themselves on a neighboring hill to deprecate the success of the invader were put to the sword, and the great monastery of Bangor, containing 2,100 monks, was demolished. Edwin then wan- dered through the different principalities of the Britons and Saxons, till he found an asylum at the court of Redwald, king of the East Angles. Redwald made war on Ethelfrid ; the armies met in 617 on the banks of the Idle, in Nottinghamshire ; Ethelfrid was defeated and slain, and Edwin without further opposition ascended the throne. The martial genius of Edwin raised Northumbria to preeminence among the Anglo-Saxon states. The islands of Anglesea and Man became subject to his authority, all the princes of the Britons paid him tribute, and among the Saxon kings Ead- bald of Kent alone retained a nominal inde- pendence. So inflexible was his administra- tion of justice, that in his days it was a com- mon saying that a woman or a child might openly carry everywhere a purse of gold with- out danger of robbery. The chief event of his reign was the introduction of Christianity into the kingdom of Northumbria. He mar- ried Ethelburga, a princess of Kent, daughter of that Bertha by whose influence the king and people of Kent had been already convert- ed to Christianity. Yet neither the entreaties of the young queen, the arguments of the learned bishop Paulinus, nor the letters and presents of Pope Boniface V., could for a long time turn him from the worship of his fathers. He consulted alternately the priests on either side, revolved in solitude their opposite argu- ments, assembled the witenagemote for consul- tation, and at last avowed himself a convert, and was followed by his people. Edwin per- ished in a disastrous battle with the combined armies of Penda, king of Mercia, and Cead- walla, king of the Britons, who had raised the standard of rebellion, and marched into York- shire ; and the kingdom was soon after recov- ered by Oswald, son of Ethelfrid. EDWY, surnamed the Fair, a king of the An- glo-Saxons, son of Edmund I., and successor of his uncle Edred, born about 938, ascended the throne in 955, and died at the close of 958. He was passionate and dissolute. Having on the day of his coronation retired from the banquet to the apartment of a young princess named Elgiva, he was violently taken back to the table by St. Dunstan, whom he then ban-