Owen Dudley Edwards

Owen Dudley Edwards was born on the 27th March 1938 in Dublin, Ireland. Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Read-er in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the editor of the ‘Oxford Sherlock Holmes’ series, and is a re-nowned expert on the authors Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde. Dudley Edwards attended Belvedere College, Dub-lin, 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 prac-tising Catholic and actively involved in the church. His latest books are Dave Does the Right Thing, Burke and Hare and How David Cameron Saved Scotland (2014).