Owen Dudley Edwards

Owen Dudley Edwards was born on the 27th March 1938 in Dublin, Ireland.

Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the editor of the ‘Oxford Sherlock Holmes’ series, and is a renowned expert on the authors Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde.

Edwards attended Belvedere College, Dublin, University College, Dublin, and The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1966 he married Barbara Balbirnie Lee and they have three children. He is a practising Catholic and actively involved in the church.

His past book include Dave Does the Right Thing, Burke and Hare and How David Cameron Saved Scotland.

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