Owen Dudley Edwards

Owen Dudley Edwards (born 27 March 1938) is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Owen Dudley Edwards
Owen Dudley Edwards talking with an audience member at the West Port Book Festival
Spouse	Barbara Balbirnie Lee
Children	3, including Sara Parvis[1]
Parent	Robert Dudley Edwards
Relatives	Ruth Dudley Edwards (sister)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Edinburgh

Life

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.

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

In 1966 he married Barbara Balbirnie Lee. They have three children.

Selected bibliography

• Our Nations and Nationalisms (2022)
• 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; 2nd ed., 1993)
• P. G. Wodehouse: A Critical and Historical Essay (1977)
• The Sins of our Fathers (1970)

See also

• Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)