Edgar Alfred Bowring

Edgar Alfred Bowring (/ˈboʊrɪŋ/; 26 May 1826 – August 1911) was a British translator, author and civil servant, serving as a librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade (1848–1863), secretary to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter (1868–1874).^[1]

He was the youngest son of Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), of Exeter, Devon, Governor of Hong Kong and also a traveller and translator of literary works, and was brother of John Charles Bowring and Lewin Bentham Bowring.

He translated various works of poetry from German into English.

Works

• Free Trade and Its So-Called Sophisms: A Reply to 'Sophisms of Free Trade, etc., Examined by a Barrister' with Lord Vere Henry Hobart (1850)
• The Most Holy Book of Psalms Literally Rendered Into English Verse, According to the Prayer Book Version (1858)

Translations

• The Poems of Schiller (1851)
• The Poems of Goethe (1853)
• The Poems of Heine Complete (1861)
• The Works of Frederick Schiller, vol. 5: the poems of Schiller (1875)
• The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (1876) (revisions of the 1815 translations of Charles Lloyd)
• The dramatic works of J. W. Goethe, translated from the German with Sir Walter Scott, and Anna Swanwick and others (1880)

Notes

1. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 126. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
•  Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Bowring, Edgar Alfred" . Men of the Time  (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. p. 156.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edgar Bowring
• Works by Edgar Alfred Bowring at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edgar Alfred Bowring at the Internet Archive

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Coleridge The Viscount Courtenay	Member of Parliament for Exeter 1868–1874 With: John Coleridge 1868–1873 Arthur Mills 1873–1874	Succeeded by Arthur Mills John George Johnson