Owen Edwards

Who is Owen Edwards?

Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

He is the son of Professor Robert Dudley Edwards and brother to the Irish writer, Ruth Dudley Edwards. He is the general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series, and is a recognised expert on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde, about each of whom he has written.

Dudley Edwards attended Belvedere College, Dublin, University College, Dublin, and The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

In 1966 he married Barbara Balbirnie Lee. They have three children. He is a practising Catholic and actively involved in the church.