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Edward Blishen Edward Blishen (1920-1996) was an English author. He is perhaps best known for two books: A Cack-Handed War (1972), a story set in the backdrop of the Second World War, and The God Beneath the Sea (1970), a collaboration with Leon Garfield that won the Carnegie Medal.
Edward Blount Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1565–1632?), was the printer, in conjunction with Isaac Jaggard, of Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies (1623), it is generally known as the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays.
Edward Bond Edward Bond (born July 18 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of the play Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK.
Edward Braddon Rt Hon Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon PC KCMG (11 June 1829 – 2 February 1904), Australian politician, was the Premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899, and was a Member of the First Australian Parliament in the House of Representatives. Braddon was a Tasmanian delegate to the Constitutional Conventions.
Edward Bradford Colonel Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCVO, KCSI, ADC (27 July 1836–13 May 1911) was a British Indian Army officer who later served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1890 to 1903.
Edward Bramwell Clarke Professor Edward Bramwell Clarke (1875-1934) introduced rugby union to students at Keio University in Japan in 1899, with help from a fellow Cambridge University graduate named Tanaka Ginnosuke. Clarke wanted to give his students something constructive to do to avoid them idling and wasting "the lovely autumn weather", and rugby which he had enjoyed as a student was what he decided to pass on to them.
Edward Braxton Bishop Edward Kenneth Braxton (June 28, 1944) was a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago when he was appointed to the Episcopacy by Pope John Paul II on March 28, 1995. He was ordained an auxiliary bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, by Justin Francis Rigali on May 17, 1995, in the city's Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis.
Edward Brongersma Edward Brongersma (August 31, 1911 – April 22, 1998) was a doctor of law and politician. He was for a number of years a member of the Dutch Eerste Kamer ("First Chamber" or Senate) for the Labour Party, and chairman of the Eerste Kamer's Judiciary Committee (1969–1977).
Edward Brooke Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate when he was elected as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 58%-42%.
Edward Brooker The Honourable William Edward Brooker (born January 4, 1891 in London; died June 18, 1948 in Hobart) was an Australian Labor Party politician. He became the Premier of Tasmania on December 19, 1947; while Robert Cosgrove was facing charges.
Edward Brooks Edward Brooks (11 April 1883-26 June 1944) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Brophy Edward Brophy (born February 27, 1895 in New York, New York; died May 27, 1960 in Pacific Palisades, California) was an American voice-over artist and character actor. Small of build, balding and raucous-voiced, Brophy was known for portraying gangsters, both serious and comic, and was the voice of Timothy Q.
Edward Bruce (New Deal) Edward Bruce (1879-1943) was the director of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and the Section of Painting and Sculpture, two New Deal relief efforts that provided work for artists in the United States during the Great Depression. Bruce had been a successful lawyer and entrepreneur before giving up his career altogether at the age of forty-three to become an artist.
Edward Bruce Hamley Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCMG KCB (27 April 1824 – 12 August 1893), British general and military writer, youngest son of Vice-Admiral William Hamley, was born at Bodmin,Cornwall, and entered the Royal Artillery in 1843.
Edward Bullard Sir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard (September 21, 1907 - April 3, 1980) was a geophysicist born into a wealthy brewing family in Norwich, England. In the 1930s he received his PhD as a nuclear physicist.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803–January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night.
Edward Burch Edward Burch (born June 9, 1968 in Centreville, Illinois, near his home town of Dupo, Illinois) is a Chicago and Champaign, Illinois-based musician and journalist. As a guitarist, he is a founding member of alternative country band The Kennett Brothers and, as a suitcase player, of the quasi-skiffle combo The Viper and His Famous Orchestra.
Edward Burleson Raymond Edward Burleson Raymond (November 12, 1848 – 1914) was a rancher, politician, banker, and founder of Raymondville, Texas. Raymond, who was named after his father's friend Edward Burleson, was born in a log cabin on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas to Nathaniel C.
Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (28 August 1833–17 June 1898) was an English artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and largely responsible for bringing the Pre-Raphaelites into the mainstream of the British art world, while at the same time executing some of the most exquisite and beautiful artwork of the time.
Edward Burra Edward Burra (29 March 1905 – 22 October 1976) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s. Although not openly gay, Burra, for his time, possessed a decidedly camp sensibility and is known to have had several male lovers.
Edward Buzzell Edward Buzzell (13 November 1900, Brooklyn, New York - 11 January 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a director for MGM who directed many of their films in the late 1930s, including Honolulu (1939), the Marx Brothers films At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940), the musicals Best Foot Forward (1943) with Lucille Ball, and Neptune's Daughter (1949) with Esther Williams.
Edward C. Burks Edward Calohill Burks (May 20, 1821 to July 4, 1897) was born in Bedford County, Virginia, the son of Martin Parks Burks, a successful farmer, and Louise Claiborne Spinner. He attended several schools when he was a boy, among them, the New London Academy.
Edward Caird Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908), philosopher, younger brother of the theologian John Caird, was born at Greenock, Scotland, and educated at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University , where he became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College. In 1866 he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893, when he became Master of Balliol College, from which he retired in 1907.
Edward Cakobau Ratu Sir Edward Tuivanuavou Tugi Cakobau (1908 - 1973) was a Fijian chief and statesman, who played a major role in Fijian politics in the years that preceded and followed independence in 1970. As Minister for Labour in the first post-independence government, Cakobau had to contend with a docker's strike for a 31 percent pay rise, at the port of Suva in May 1971.
Edward Calvin Kendall Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 – May 4, 1972) was an American chemist who, together with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research at the Mayo Clinic on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones.
Edward Capehart O'Kelley Edward Capehart O'Kelley (1858—January 13, 1904) will forever be remembered as "the man who murdered Jesse James' murderer." A book entitled Ed O'Kelley: The Man Who Murdered Jesse James' Murderer was written by Judith Ries, a great-great niece of O'Kelley's.
Edward Cardinal Egan Edward Michael Cardinal Egan STL JCD (born April 2, 1932) is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He currently serves as the twelfth bishop and ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York.
Edward Cardinal MacCabe Edward Cardinal MacCabe (14 Feb 1816 - 11 Feb 1885) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1879 until his death. He was ordained a priest in 1839 He was consecrated Titular Bishop of Gadara on 26 June 1877.
Edward Cardwell Edward Cardwell (1787 - May 23, 1861) was an English theologian also noted for his contributions to the study of English church history. In addition to his scholarly work, he filled various administrative positions in Oxford University.
Edward Carfagno Although he began working at MGM in 1933, art director Edward Carfagno (1907 -1996) established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), Joseph Mankiewicz's "Julius Caesar" (1953) and William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" (1959). Carfagno went on to work consistently on a variety of films, including five collaborations with director Clint Eastwood, such as "Tightrope" (1984) and "Heartbreak Ridge" (1987).
Edward Carrington Edward Carrington (1748–1810) was an American soldier and statesman from Virginia. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army, serving as Quartermaster to General Nathanael Greene’s Southern campaign.
Edward Castronova Edward Castronova is Associate Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University Bloomington as of fall 2004, previously Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton. He obtained a BS in International Affairs from Georgetown University in 1985 and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991.
Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, KG (May 6 1895 – November 26 1950), known as Marquess of Hartington (1908–1938), was Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire from 1923 to 1938 and a Minister in Winston Churchill's wartime government.
Edward Cetnarowski Edward Cetnarowski was a Polish sports official, gynaecologist and one of most famous personalities of the sports club Cracovia KrakĂłw. He was born October 3, 1877 in Rzeszow and died September 3, 1933 in KrakĂłw.
Edward Ciągło Edward Ciągło (born October 15, 1953 in Gołkowice Dolne) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 9470 votes in 14 Nowy Sącz district, candidating from Liga Polskich Rodzin list.
Edward Cline Edward Cline is a novelist and essayist, best known for his Sparrowhawk series of novels, which take place in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. He is also the author of First Prize and Whisper the Guns.
Edward Clyde Benfold Edward Clyde Benfold (January 15 1931 - September 5 1952) was a United States Navy sailor who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War. He was killed in action, aged 21, while serving with the 1st Marine Division, as a Hospitalman Third Class.
Edward Cock Edward Cock (1805–1892), British surgeon, was a nephew of Sir Astley Cooper, and through him became at an early age a member of the staff of the Borough Hospital in London, where he worked in the dissecting room for thirteen years. Afterwards he became in 1838 assistant surgeon at Guy's Hospital, where from 1849 to 1871 he was surgeon, and from 1871 to 1892 consulting surgeon.
Edward Coke Sir Edward Coke (pronounced "cook") (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634), was an early English colonial entrepreneur and jurist whose writings on the English common law were the definitive legal texts for some 300 years.
Edward Coleman (gangster) Edward Coleman (d. January 12, 1839) was the founder of the Forty Thieves and one of New York's most notorious villains, for the murder of his wife and popular Five Points character known as "The Pretty Hot Corn Girl".
Edward Colquhoun Charlton Edward Colquhoun Charlton (June 15, 1920- April 21, 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Colston Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was a Bristol-born English merchant and philanthropist. Much of his wealth, although used often for generous purposes, was acquired through the trade and exploitation of slaves.
Edward Condon Edward Uhler Condon (March 2 1902 – March 26 1974) was a distinguished nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, where he directed a controversial Air Force-funded scientific study of UFOs).
Edward Conlon Edward Conlon (born 1965) is a New York police officer who wrote Blue Blood, a set of biographical notes about his eight years in the NYPD. Conlon wrote a Cop's Diary column for the New Yorker under the pen name Marcus Laffey.
Edward Connellan Edward John ("EJ" or "Eddie") Connellan, CBE, AO (24 June 1912—26 December 1983) was an Australian aviator who founded Connellan Airways and was a pioneer of aviation in the Northern Territory.
Edward Conze Eberhart (Edward) Julius Dietrich Conze (1904 - 1979) was born in London of mixed German, French, and Dutch ancestry. His father belonged to the German landed aristocracy, and his mother to what he himself would have called the 'plutocracy'.
Edward Cooper (soldier) Edward Cooper (May 4, 1896 - August 19, 1985) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Copleston Edward Copleston (1776-1849), English bishop, was born at Offwell in Devonshire, and educated at Oxford. He was elected to a tutorship at Oriel College in 1797, and in 1800 was appointed vicar of St Mary Hall, Oxford.
Edward Cornwallis Edward Cornwallis, (c 1713 – 14 January 1776), was a British military officer, known as “the Founder of Halifax”. He was born in London, the sixth son of Charles, fourth Baron Cornwallis, and Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of the Earl of Arran2.
Edward Courtney Boyle Edward Courtney Boyle (March 23, 1883 - December 16, 1967), was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Cowan Edward James McKenzie Cowan (born 16 June 1982) is a cricketer who has played for the British Universities, New South Wales and Oxford UCCE teams. He is a left handed batsman who debuted in 2005 for the NSW Blues side.
Edward Craven-Walker Edward Craven-Walker invented the Lava Lamp around 1963 under the name "Astro Lamp." He sold it at various trade shows until 1966 when he sold the rights to manufacture the product in the United States to the company Haggerty.
Edward D. Brown Edward Dudley Brown (1850-1906) was an African American born as a slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey, a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer, and an owner of several of the top racehorses during the last decade of the 19th century, earning him induction into the United States Racing Hall of Fame.
Edward D. Hoch Edward Dentinger Hoch (born February 22, 1930 in Rochester, New York) is a prolific American writer of detective fiction. Although he has written several novels, he is primarily known for his vast short story output.
Edward D. Taussig Edward David Taussig (November 20 1847 — January 29 1921) was a decorated Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He is best remembered for being the officer to claim Wake Island during the Spanish-American War, as well as recapturing and serving briefly as Governor of Guam, to restore order on the island after its capture by the United States.
Edward Dannreuther Edward Dannreuther (November 4 1844 – February 12 1905) was a German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. He trained as a musician at the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, a severe critic of the music of Wagner and Franz Liszt.
Edward Davey Edward Jonathan "Ed" Davey (born 25 December 1965) a British Member of Parliament. He is the Liberal Democrat representative for Kingston and Surbiton and Chief of Staff to party leader Sir Menzies Campbell.
Edward David Smout Sgt Edward David (Ted) Smout (January 5, 1898 – June 22, 2004) was a World War I veteran. Born in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) at the age of 17, lying about his age to enlist.
Edward Davison Edward Lewis Davison (1898–1970) was a Scottish poet and critic, born in Glasgow. He emigrated to the United States and became an academic at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was involved in the Colorado Writers 1937 conference.
Edward Devotion School The Edward Devotion Elementary School is a public elementary school located at 345 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. The school was founded in 1894 on land bequeathed to the town by Edward Devotion (1667–1744), and is probably named for his eponymous grandfather (1621–1685)Biographical entry the Constable for what was then Muddy River around 1650.
Edward Dickinson Edward Dickinson (January 1 1803 - June 16 1874) was a Massachusetts politician. He is best known as the father of famous poet Emily Dickinson; their family home in Amherst, the Dickinson Homestead, is now a museum.
Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare.
Edward Dolnick Edward Dolnick is an American writer, formerly a science writer at the Boston Globe. He has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post, among other publications.
Edward Donald Bellew Edward Donald Bellew (October 28, 1882, Bombay, February 1, 1961, Kamloops, British Columbia), Captain of the 7th Bn British Columbia Regiment, CEF was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Douglas Brown Colonel Edward Douglas Brown VC CB (born Kassouli, Dagshai, India, March 6, 1861, died March 3 1940, London) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Douglass White Edward Douglass White, Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States.
Edward Dow Edward Ingo Dow (born September 13, 1904; died December 23, 1992) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1962, from 1966 to 1968, and from 1968 to 1969.
Edward Drummond Edward Drummond (1792–25 April 1843) was a civil servant and Personal Secretary to Robert Peel, the British Prime Minister. On 20 January 1843, he was shot by Daniel M'Naghten who had mistaken him for Robert Peel.
Edward Dwelly Edward Dwelly (born 1864) was a Scottish Gaelic lexicographer. He is generally believed to have created the authoritative dictionary in that language, and his work, although arguably never bettered in Scotland has been an immense influence on Irish lexicography.
Edward Dwyer Edward Dwyer (25 November 1895-3 September 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Dwyer (baseball) Edward James Dwyer (1897-1951) was a right-handed pitcher, who played for the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds. In 1919, while pitching for the Yankees in a game against the Detroit Tigers, he threw a baseball 98 miles an hour, the fastest speed recorded at the time.
Edward Dyson Edward George Dyson (1865-1931), was born at Morrisons near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and after working on various diggings became a mining engineer, his mother came from a life of refinement in England.
Edward E. Lyon Edward Eugene Lyon (08 August 1871 &d 18 November 1931) was a United States Army Private awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions on 13 May 1899. Private Lyon was part of the Young's Scouts, 2nd Oregon Volunteer Regiment.
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award The Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark) is presented annually by NESFA to some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed significantly to science fiction, both through work in the field and by exemplifying the personal qualities which made the late "Doc" Smith well-loved by those who knew him.
Edward Edson Lee Edward Edson Lee (born September 2 1884 in Meriden, Illinois; died September 28 1944 in Rockford, Illinois), who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards, was a popular children's literature author in the 1920s and 1930s.
Edward Edward Wotton Edward Edward Wotton (1492-1552) was an English physician credited with starting the modern study of zoology, by separating out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge.
Edward Elers Delaval Henderson Edward Elers Delaval Henderson (2 October, 1878 - 25 January, 1917) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Elgar Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim.
Edward Eliot, Lord Eliot Edward John Cornwallis Eliot (April 2 1827 – December 3 1864) was born in London to Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans and his wife Jemima Cornwallis. He was educated at Eton College from 1839–1843, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on October 21 1844.
Edward Eliscu Edward Eliscu is a lyricist, playwright, producer and actor born on April 26, 1902 in New York City and died in Newtown, Connecticut on June 18, 1998. He attended the City College of New York where he attained a Bachelor of Science degree.
Edward England Edward England, born Edward Seegar in Ireland, was a famous African coast and Indian Ocean pirate from 1717 to 1720. The ships he sailed on included the Pearl and later the Fancy, for which England exchanged the Pearl in 1720.
Edward English Edward English (b ? - ) is a Canadian Christian Brother who was convicted in 1994 of indecent assault, gross indecency, and assault causing bodily harm against children as part of the Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal in Newfoundland, Canada.
Edward Entwistle Edward Entwistle, born 1815 in Tyldesley, near Wigan, Lancashire was the world's first driver of a passenger train. Apprenticed as an engineer at the age of 11, he worked at the Bridgewater Trust works, where the Rocket locomotive was under construction.
Edward Erie Poor Edward Erie Poor (born February 5, 1837; died July 29, 1900) served as Vice-President and then President of the National Park Bank from 1895-1900, succeeding Ebenezer K. Wright and followed by Richard Delafield.
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans KCB DSO (October 28, 1881 - August 20, 1957), known as "Teddy" Evans, was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer. He served as second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1913 and as captain of the expedition ship Terra Nova.
Edward Everett Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed United States Secretary of State by President Millard Fillmore to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Webster.
Edward F. Moore Edward F. Moore (November 23, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland–June 14, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin) was a professor of mathematics and computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1966 until he retired in 1985.
Edward Felix Baxter Edward Felix Baxter (18 September 1885—18 April 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Ferrero Edward Ferrero (January 18, 1831 – December 11, 1899) was one of the leading dance instructors, choreographers, and ballroom operators in the United States. He also served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best remembered for his role in the Battle of the Crater in 1864.
Edward Ffrench Bromhead Sir Edward Thomas Ffrench Bromhead (March 26, 1789 – March 14, 1855), second baronet, was an Irish mathematician. Born in Dublin, he was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society in 1817, after his paper "On the fluents of irrational functions" was published by the society's Philosophical Transactions the year before.
Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln (February 23 1913–2001) was an Australian engineer and miner. In 1989, upon the death of the last Duke of Newcastle, a very distant relative, he was informed by a British newspaper that he had inherited the ancient Earldom.
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop Edward George Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard PC (20 June 1818 – 1 December 1883), known as Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard until 1869, was a British Liberal politician and Member of Parliament for several constituencies.
Edward Fitzgerald (adviser) Edward Joseph Fitzgerald was an American who worked for the War Production Board during World War II and was an adviser to Senator Claude Pepper. He was also allegedly a member of the Perlo group of Soviet spies.
Edward Fitzgerald Beale US Brigadier General Edward Fitzgerald "Ned" Beale (February 4, 1822 – April 22, 1893) is best known for his carrying out former Secretary of War Jefferson Davis' "US Camel Corps" experiment in the Coachella Valley of California. He was later appointed Surveyor General of California and Nevada by President Abraham Lincoln and helped keep California in the Union fold.
Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster 6 May 1892 – 8 March 1976), known as Lord Edward FitzGerald before 1922 was Ireland's Premier Peer of the Realm. The third son of the 5th Duke, he unexpectedly inherited the Dukedom from his eldest brother, the 6th Duke, his father's second son, Lord Desmond FitzGerald, having died in 1916.
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (October 12, 1853–May 24, 1937) was an American politician. Born in 1853 in Watertown, Connecticut, a Democrat, he was inaugurated as the 31st mayor of Chicago on April 5, 1905; he served until 1907.
Edward Flannery Edward H. Flannery (1912 – October 19, 1998) was a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, and the author of The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism, first published in 1965.
Edward Forbes Smiley III Edward Forbes Smiley III (born in 1957) is a US antiques dealer who admitted stealing 98 rare maps valued at more than US$ 3 million over a period of seven years. He was caught at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University when a library staffer noticed a dropped X-Acto knife blade on the floor.
Edward Ford Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward William Spencer Ford, GCVO, KCB, ERD, DL (24 July 1910 – 19 November 2006) was a courtier in the Royal Household of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He is perhaps best known for writing to the Queen's private secretary regarding the 40th year of the Queen's reign, having hoped that the Queen would experience an annus mirabilis but instead finding it an annus horribilis.
Edward Forty-Hands Edward Forty-Hands (also known as 80 Ounces to Freedom) is a drinking game in which each player duct tapes a 40 oz. bottle of alcohol (usually malt liquor) to each of his or her hands and is not allowed to take them off until he drinks them.

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