Edwards, Robert Walter Dudley (1910–1988)

Irish scholar, one of the founders of modern Irish historiography. Edwards was professor of modern Irish history at University College, Dublin 1945–79. His most important work was Church and State in Tudor Ireland 1936.

Edwards was born in Dublin, to an English father and Irish mother, and studied at University College in his native city. He moved to the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and in 1938 co-founded the authoritative journal Irish Historical Studies.