Edgeworth, Henry Essex, known as the “Abbé” Edgeworth, born in Ireland, son of a Protestant clergyman; educated at the Sorbonne, in Paris; entered the priesthood, and became the confessor of Louis XVI., whom he attended on the scaffold; exclaimed as the guillotine came down, “Son of St. Louis, ascend to heaven!” left France soon after; was subsequently chaplain to Louis XVIII. (1745‒1807).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Edgehill * Edgeworth, Maria