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Edward VI
Edward VI (1537–1553), only son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, king of England 1547–1553. Protestant boy king whose reign produced the 1549 and 1552 Books of Common Prayer; his Devise for the Succession briefly made Lady Jane Grey queen before Mary I.
Edward VII
Edward VII (1841–1910), Bertie, King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India 1901–1910, eldest son of Victoria; accessed at 59, promoted the Entente Cordiale, died during the 1909 Lords crisis, succeeded by George V.
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (1894–1972), also Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India for 325 days in 1936. He abdicated on 11 December 1936 to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, was never crowned, and later drew scrutiny for Nazi sympathies.
Edward W. Gregg
Edward W. Gregg is an American diabetes epidemiologist who led CDC diabetes surveillance, then joined Imperial College London, and now heads the RCSI School of Population Health.
Edward W. Holmes
Edward W. Holmes is an American physician-scientist known for research on AMP deaminase deficiency, service as dean of Duke's medical school, and leadership of Singapore's biomedical research councils.
Edward W. Hook
Edward W. Hook III is an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who specializes in syphilis, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted infections.
Edward W. Morley
Edward Williams Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment, which found no motion of Earth through the ether.
Edward W. Price
Edward Warren Price (1920–2012) was an American aerospace engineer best known for developing the T-burner, the standard laboratory method for measuring solid propellant combustion response.
Edward Washburn
Edward Wight Washburn (1881–1934) was an American physical chemist remembered for defining standard states for bomb calorimetry, producing heavy water by electrolysis, and editing the seven-volume International Critical Tables.
Edward Wenk Jr.
Edward Wenk Jr. (1920–2012) was an American civil and ocean engineer, professor at the University of Washington, and science-policy adviser to Congress and three presidents.
Edward Wennerholm
Edward Wennerholm (Oskar Edward Wennerholm, 1890-1943), Swedish gymnast of Stockholms GF and career officer, won gold in the men's team Swedish system event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with a 24-man Swedish team.
Edward Weston
Edward Weston (1886–1958), American modernist photographer of sharp-focus black-and-white still lifes, nudes, and Western landscapes; Group f/64 cofounder, first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, subject of MoMA retrospectives.
Edward Weston (American electrical engineer and inventor)
Edward Weston was an American electrical engineer and inventor, born in England in 1850, who held 334 U.S. patents and founded the AIEE, predecessor of the IEEE.
Edward White Benson
Edward White Benson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896, whose Lincoln Judgment of 1890 resolved the Church of England's long dispute over worship; he earlier devised Nine Lessons and Carols.
Edward Wilber Berry
Edward Wilber Berry (1875–1945) was an American paleobotanist at Johns Hopkins University who reconstructed the Eocene floras of southeastern North America and later served as the university's provost.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) was a West Indian-born Liberian educator, diplomat, and writer, a founding figure of pan-Africanism who served as Liberia's secretary of state and president of Liberia College.
Edward Wilson Merrill
Edward Wilson Merrill (1923–2020) was an American chemical engineer and rheologist at MIT who helped found biomaterials and bioengineering, proposing polyethylene oxide as a biomaterial.
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Eddy Downpatrick), born 1988, is a British travel consultant and fashion designer, only son of the Earl of St Andrews, second in line to the Dukedom of Kent, and excluded from the throne as a Roman Catholic convert.
Edward Winslow
Edward Winslow (1595–1655), Mayflower Pilgrim and three-time governor of Plymouth Colony, was the colonists' chief diplomat with Massasoit's Wampanoag, author of Good Newes from New England (1624), and Plymouth's agent in England.
Edward Winter (actor)
Edward Dean Winter (1937-2001), American character actor born in Ventura, California; twice Tony-nominated for Cabaret and Promises, Promises, and best known as paranoid Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H (1973-1979); died of Parkinson's disease at 63.
Edward Witten
Edward Witten, also known as Ed Witten, is an American theoretical physicist best known for superstring theory and M-theory, and the only physicist to win the Fields Medal, in 1990.
Edward Woll
Edward Woll (1914–2010) was an American jet-engine engineer and executive at General Electric who pioneered US aircraft gas turbines, led engines from the J47 to the CFM56, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, the 'Holy Fox' (1881–1959): British Conservative statesman, Viceroy of India 1926–31, Foreign Secretary 1938–40 and appeasement architect who declined the premiership in May 1940 in favor of Churchill, then ambassador to Washington 1941–46.
Edward Woodward
Edward Woodward (1930–2009), English actor and singer; star of Callan (1967–72), The Wicker Man (1973), Breaker Morant (1980), and The Equalizer (1985–89); BAFTA 1970, Golden Globe 1986, OBE 1978.
Edward Wright
Edward Gordon Dundas Wright (1884-1947), English amateur outside left; Hull City captain and first capped player; won football gold for Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, playing only the 4-0 semifinal win over Finland; later a South African mining engineer.
Edward Youde
Sir Edward Youde (尤德, 1924–1986), 26th Governor of Hong Kong from May 1982, career diplomat and former Ambassador to China, led the territory through the Sino-British negotiations, championed tertiary education, and died in Beijing in office.
Edward Young
Edward D. Young is a UCLA geochemist known for the CO self-shielding explanation of oxygen isotope anomalies and for tracing Earth's water to primordial hydrogen atmospheres.
Edward Yu
Edward Yu is an American structural biologist at Case Western Reserve University known for determining the crystal structures of the E. coli CusA heavy-metal efflux pump.
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick, Chicago-born American director, producer, and screenwriter; AFI Conservatory 1975; co-created thirtysomething with Marshall Herskovitz (Bedford Falls Company); directed Glory, Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond; produced Shakespeare in Love; 2024 memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions.
Edwardian by-election wave (1906–1914)
The Edwardian by-election wave was the period between the Liberal landslide of 1906 and the First World War in 1914, when British by-elections were read as verdicts on the government.