Gentlemanly Name: Edward

EDWARD

Gender: Male

Origin: Old English

Meaning: "prosperous guardian", "wealthy protector"

Common Nicknames: Ed, Eddie, Ned, Neddy

Regency Popularity: Widely use among the upper class and royalty.

Jane Austen Usage:

• Sense and Sensibility - Mr. Edward Ferrars is an honorable hero who wins the heart of heroine Elinor Dashwood. 
• Persuasion - Mr. Edward Wentworth is the brother of Captain Frederick Wentworth and Mrs Sophia Croft. He did have the curacy of Monksford but later moves out of county, marries and has a parish in Shropshire.
• Pride and Prejudice - Mr. Edward Gardiner is the brother of Mrs Bennet. He's a solicitor and lives in Cheapside, London with his wife and young children.
• Northanger Abbey - Edward Thorpe is mentioned as one of Mrs Thorpe's talented (according to her) sons - a student at Merchant-Taylors'.
• Sanditon - Si Edward Denham, Baronet is nephew of Sir Harry Denham. brother of Esther. born to be a villain- 'quite in the line of Lovelaces'.
• Juvenilia: Catharine, or the Bower - Edward Stanley is the son of Mr & Mrs Stanley.
• Juvenilia: Love and Freindship - Sir Edward Lindsay is the father of Mr Edward Lindsay, who thinks his son has been reading novels again.
• Juvenilia: Love and Freindship - Mr. Edward Lindsay (concealed as Talbot), son of Sir Edward Lindsay, and husband to Laura.
• Juvenilia: Sir William Montague - Sir Edward Montague is mentioned.
• Juvenilia: The Mystery - Sir Edward Spangle is mentioned.