Owen Dudley Edwards
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Republic of Ireland
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in July 1938. He is the son of Professor Robert Dudley Edwards
Robert Dudley Edwards
Robert Walter Dudley Edwards was an Irish historian.-Biography:Robert Walter Dudley Edwards, known to his friends as Robin and his students as 'Dudley' was born in Dublin. His father was Walter Dudley Edwards, a journalist who came to Ireland with his wife, Bridget Teresa MacInerney from Clare,...
and brother to the Irish writer, Ruth Dudley Edwards.
Dudley Edwards is Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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, Scotland
Scotland
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, UK.
He is the general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
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series, and is a recognised expert on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
, P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
and Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
, about each of whom he has written.
Dudley Edwards attended Belvedere College
Belvedere College
Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College....
, Dublin, University College, Dublin, and The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
Baltimore
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.
In 1966 he married Barbara Balbirnie Lee. They have three children. He is a practising Catholic and actively involved in the church.
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)
- P G Wodehouse: A Critical and Historical Essay (1977)
- The Sins of our Fathers (1970)