The first man by this surname may have poisoned Silas Deane, and worked in Paris as a double agent for the British.
A man with this surname wrote letters addressed to "Mr. Richards," signed as "Edward Edwards," which he allegedly bottled and tied around a box tree. That man of this surname wrote The Natural History of Guiana and the epistolary History of Charles Wentworth after researching in Suriname. Another man of this last name co-wrote a book with John Palfrey, which proposed the four values of progress, patria, providence, and pan-democracy as the founding ideals of America. The first man by this surname may have poisoned Silas Deane, and worked in Paris as a double agent for the British. The second succeeded John Mason as Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, wherein he established the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. For 10 points, give this name shared by the colonial spy Edward and George, whose massive 10-volume work led him to be dubbed the "Father of American History."
A man with this surname wrote letters addressed to "Mr. Richards," signed as "Edward Edwards," which he allegedly bottled and tied around a box tree.
Bancroft [double agent Edward Bancroft and historian George Bancroft]