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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Arthur William Edgar O'shaughnessy
• Daniel Edgar Sickles
• Edgar Allan Poe
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Beard, Edgar
• Blunden, Edgar B
• Edgar John Todd, D.D.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Boehm, Sir Joseph Edgar
• Edgar
• Edgar the Atheling
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Mortara, Edgar

A king of Saxon England from 959 to 975, surnamed the Peaceful; promoted the union and consolidation of the Danish and Saxon elements within his realm; cleared Wales of wolves by exacting of its inhabitants a levy of 300 wolves' heads yearly; eight kings are said to have done him homage by rowing him on the Dee; St. Dunstan, the archbishop of Canterbury, was the most prominent figure of the reign.